Grindelwald, 11th March 2005
11th March 2005
When I was round at Thun in the week it looked so nice down the valley towards the Jungfrau that I decided to take a visit there later in the week.I parked round at the Grund lift station in Grindelwald, it’s about the largest car park in the area and reasonably handy for the lift, and, unlike Stechelberg/Mürren, they don’t charge for parking. It’s been a fine spring day, temperatures have been hovering around freezing point and the sun’s been out with just a small amount of light cloud.
From Grund I took the train up to Kleine Scheidegg, this takes about 30 mins on top of the time to wait for it so it just takes an age. These trains are all very well for the tourists but they are slow and inconvenient for skiers in the winter. Up at Kleine Scheidegg it was just busy and I took a run down to the Wixi lift which had a queue on it as well. Along with the majority of people moving in a somewhat random manner I was beginning to regret coming at all.
Then I set off down to Wengen and the crowds disappeared and the day improved considerably, I did some sections of the Lauberhorn course but it was the first day on my skis so I wanted to get a feel for them before unwinding them to that sort of speed.
From Wengen I again took the train to Kleine Scheidegg and started to ski over in the Männlichen area, these are fast wide carving pistes and just the thing for my brand new Stöckli Laser SC’s, it’s tending to ice in place and the Lasers just eat it up leaving bemused bystanders wondering how you’re holding an edge when they’re sliding around.
The last run down I took was the Tshuggen back to Grund, by now it nearly 5pm and pistes were nearly empty so I could let the Lasers really start to fly on them.
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