First visit of the season to Rougemont although we skied off the Eggli lift a few weeks back pre-season opening. Rougemont’s one of the three main distint areas of Gstaad with about 90km of pistes. The big peak is La Videmanette and is known locally as the “Die Gstaader Dolomiten” and there’s some similarity.

There’s a gallery here but the pictures aren’t quite as good as I’d like, I was using a new camera for the first time in the snow and I need to work a little with the white balance and exposure.

The skiing’s great but some of the lifts are getting a little old although it’s part of the charm of the area, fortunately the worst, slowest 2-man chair’s been replaced this season with a new 4-man lift which travel at about 5-times the speed of the old one.

The run back from La Videmanette is excellent, long and scenic with views down the valley.

La Berra is the closest station to home so it’s ideal for a few hours skiing. Mid-week of course there’s pretty much no one there so you have the pistes to yourself.

There’s a single (vintage) chairlift, a couple of buttons and a couple of t-bars.

I’m really running out of things to say, the conditions round at Gstaad are really, really fantastic, it’s cold but with clear skies and sunshine. Pretty much everything in the main area is open although the Relleri area isn’t open yet.

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Adelboden/Lenk’s one of largest ski areas near home and is pretty much fully open right now with excellent snow both on the pistes and the roads to get there

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