3rd March 2009
There’s some unsettled weather around and it snowed overnight, fairly lightly down in the village and a few cm up higher but first thing this morning the sun was breaking through and it looked to be a good day in the making.
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11th February 2009
After some heavy snowfalls and storms today was much improved for visibility. There’s a high avalanche risk, some drifted snow on top of a poorly bonded base so again some of the lifts weren’t running. But, I had an idea where might be skiing well and offer some safer options so it turned into an excellent day.
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21st January 2009
A few snaps from Grimentz. The snow is just perfect right now so we have a great day and I’d have happily skied a couple more hours if the lifts weren’t closing!
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3rd January 2009
Hopefully it’s the start of low season now and the holiday crowds will disperse. It’s been much the same as usual, probably the majority of people on holiday are pretty regular people but there’s a number who seem to feel paying any regard to other people or even their own safety would ruin their holiday, they arrive in cars like they’re the only person on the road, get out and use the roads like they’re been pedestrianised, then ski without the first regard for anyone else. The string of accidents all over the alps are entirely predictable.
But, today they’re on the way home so it’s all much more relaxed. We rode up the lift to Zinal and did a couple of runs before skiing over to Grimentz for lunch followed by a ski down into St-Jean and back on the bus. The bus timetable’s not quite working, it was full to bursting from Grimentz, they maybe should run an extra bus on weekends. I was also struck by how little help this proposed new lift between Zinal and Grimentz would be, you would need to leave Grimentz early to ride up to Zinal to either ski down or ride the gondola so you’re better of with the bus at 1630 or 1710 for a full afternoon skiing.
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