A glorious day round at Gstaad, below zero and clear skies and sunshine. Pretty quiet as it’s mid week and low season. My pass didn’t work this morning, it turns out when I used it at Adelboden over the week they wiped my Gstaad entitlement so I had to get a new season pass issued.

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The baloon festival at Château-d’Oex was stil on this weekend so I was trying to avoid getting caught up in the traffic again. On Saturday I’d been to Villars which was not operating fully due to wind and ended up back home at La Berra for a few hours. So, Sunday we decided to go to Adelboden.

The slight downside with Adelboden is, by local standards, it’s relatively busy. Being one of the closest stations to Berne and the favoured destination by most people round that way then you can wait a few minutes for lifts sometimes. Fortunately, they operate a good single line on most lifts so you can get around quite quickly.

Some idea of how busy can be seen from this :

Or getting off one of the lifts:

One problem is that they’ve such a strong local accent and dialect I can’t understand a word they say

Due to jet lag and heavy traffic around the Château-d’Oex International Balloon event it was a late start today. I was pleased to find the snow was still pretty good after not having been there for a couple of weeks. Although it’s a bit crusty in places there’s some great skiing in the trees.

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Another day skiing in New England. Today Andre, a colleague from the local office, took me up to Waterville Valley. It’s still extremely cold though but at least today the sun was out which makes it a little more bearable.

The full gallery is here.

It looks like Waterville didn’t quite get the fresh snow that Sunapee did yesterday so the trails were very icey and hard-pack with a couple of runs closed.

Did I say how cold it was ?