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Although the sun’s been getting on the snow and the lower slopes can be a bit icy in the morning, it’s been a brilliant day on the hill, and the Fontaneyes itinerary route had softened up really well by the end of the day.

Which makes you wonder why Pete was squealing like a big girl on the way down…

Welcome to more Verbier stuff.

The first stuff is that we haven’t been banging on about the standard sun/snow/sun cycle for a bit. Big news is that it’s been sunny, then it snowed the other day, and now it’s sunny again. Shocker.

Second bit of stuff is about training – we had more today and (despite the fact that I managed to completely confuse myself and occasionally lose the plot) it’s been great. Again.

And on top of all that stuff, we also had the highest qualified video man in Switzerland, as Jules followed us about and filmed us all as we ground out our short turns.

Sadly I can’t upload the video at the moment, but here’s a shot of the boss on video duty…

There’s something you don’t get everyday: training with ome of the top British coaches (Kerr Stewart) and a photo shoot with a legendary ski photographer (Marco Shapiro).

So that’s why it was a bit of a treat yesterday, when our training was punctuated with a session hammering down the bumps on front of Marco’s lens. Which is slightly daunting – when you bear in mind that the guy has shot just about anyone who’s anyone in the skiing world, including legends like Glenn Plake…

Kerr didn’t look too fussed, but it’s safe to say a few of us might have been a little camera-shy and our technique might have buckled a bit under the pressure…

That said, we might just have been distracted by Kerr’s orange jump suit. Cool, but he looks like a walking piste marker.

Jules put a couple of the shots up yesterday click on the image boxes in the blog bellow), but you can see more of the results on our gallery page.

Photo by Marco Shapiro, Taken during Staff Training.

Kerr Stewart in the Bumps

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)