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Ah, a few days off and couple of my stupidest friends in town – doesn’t get much better than this.

The sun’s been out constantly (well, not at night, but you know what I mean), and the snow’s been a bit, well, spring-like. Which is odd for January, but we’re more than happy with it.

And there’s more sun to come, so we’ll hopefully get you a couple more shots of my foolish mates on the hill in the sunshine.

Meanwhile, here’s a photo of Stef and I on Mont Fort, as seen from way above by Ian on the cable car. It’s not very high resolution, but then again it was taken by one of my stupidest friends…

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