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    Verbier Skiing

    Snow, sun, warm, cold: a bit of everything

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    Easter has turned out to be a bit of a changeable affair – one minute you’re freezing in a white-out and regretting getting out of bed that day, the next you’re baking, turning crimson and wishing you’d put on suncream.

    And so it continues – the snow is brilliant, especially up high, and we had yet another fall last night so the snow that was melted on the trees has been replaced, making everything look laaaaarvely.

    And when the clouds clear it’s decidedly above average.

    Apart from that, we’re all still feeling pretty chuffed that the school raised 26,000 CHF for disabled skiing last week, and we’ve also all been sitting around in the t-bar debating whether or not snow-forecast.com are over-predicting snowfalls on purpose just to mess with our heads, or if they just get it wrong a lot.

    Apres Ski: The evidence

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    We’ve finally wrestled with technology and dug out the pictures from the Farinet Apres Ski opening night, and even got a picture of Kato’s new headgear following his ‘upside down dancing’ exhibition, lucky you…

    The boys try to fix the sliding roof…

    The girls dish out free shots…



    The White Lines Open proceedings…



    The Dicktators dressed as a disturbing collection of Santas…

    General carnage…



    Kato’s exciting new bandages…

    The first blog

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    Right, let’s get things straight, it’s November. Definitely November. Which is why we’re all a bit confused here in Verbier.

    Look at the sky and you’d swear it was April, step outside and it’s as cold as January. Then when you put your skis on, and you stop caring what’s written on the calendar and you hammer around like a fool.

    And grinning. There’s been a lot of grinning.

    We’ve had a massive dump last week (about 60 cm, maybe more – who’s really counting?), and it’s been absolutely freezing (try waking up on Friday morning to temperatures outside of minus 15º).

    So, when Televerbier fired up the lifts on Friday, everyone in town and the valley, plus a good few keen Swiss from Geneva, were all desperate to get up there and see what it looked like…

    Well, it didn’t disappoint – put it this way, nobody in the pub could remember an opening day where you could get face shots when you dropped off the sides of Lac des Vaux. And some of those guys are really old…

    The highest November snowfall in Switzerland since 1956, apparently.

    The fresh snow off-piste has started to creep a little though, sliding on the smooth grass underneath. And it’ll take a little while for the snow to form a stable base.

    So backside of Mont Fort and other favourites are going to be off limits for a while.

    And what’s the winter going to be like? Well, you never know, but with more weather coming in at the end of the week, it couldn’t be a more perfect start. I can’t wait.

    And it’s still only November…