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At 1600 hours today Verbier fell in to sheer panic as a cloud appeared over Bruson but it didn’t start snowing. After the consistent pattern of blue skies / fresh snow, the population were simply not ready for this kind of crazy meteorological anomaly.

Other big news is that Kato is refusing to take responsibility for the missing camera. Man-up wee man, man-up…

(It’s a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P200 with incriminating images of Kato on the memory stick, in case you stumble across it)

OK, it hasn’t exactly been more of the same – we have slightly broken the fresh snow / amazing blue skies cycle. Calm yourselves.

You see last night we had – brace yourself – a little bit of drizzle in resort.

For about an hour.

Not enough to have an effect on the runs to resort, and probably indicative of a light dusting of snow up top.

But guess what?

Yup, blue skies are back and there are amazing conditions on piste.

I would put up some pics, but there are two reasons why I won’t…

Reason one: you’ll just think I’m gloating.

Reason two: I might have mislaid my camera in T-Bar whilst having a ‘quiet night’ with Kato…

I say might, because I can’t really remember where we ended up, all that’s stuck in my memory is the image of a slightly befuddled Kato wandering down Route de Verbier suggesting we went into every single bar we walked past.

I know, the more things change, the more they stay the same…

I know.

You’re a bit bored of it.

Every post says «blah blah blah lots of new snow blah blah blah» then «blah blah blue skies» followed by «cloud coming in blah blah new snow on it’s way yadda yadda yadda».

But can I help it if it’s true?

Because there’s loads of new snow, blue skies and more on the way.

And to make you feel worse here’s a video of Mr A MacLaren banging through the bumps on Fontaneys. Git.

As I type clouds are gathering and the great news is that more snow is on it’s way.

So after yesterday’s perfect blue skies and knee deep powder (which was even deeper where it had been blown into gullies and couloirs), we can expect more of the same.

Suffice to say we’ll get pictures up as soon as it arrives…

On top of that we’ve got the long anticipated ES staff meal at the Pub Mont Fort on Tuesday, followed by an evening in Coco’s. Wednesday morning could be a tough one…

And if you’re not accessing this through the ES website, you can click here to have a squiz at our brand-spanking-new site. Lucky you.

It’s entirely possible that tomorrow will be the best day in the world. Ever.

There’s a good foot of fresh in resort, and even more up top – add to that the sunny forecast for tomorrow, and it really could be above average…

This evening at Chez Danny – not short of snow…

(No idea yet how much there is up the hill, but we’ll keep you posted)