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Saturday Feb 18, 2012 #
10 AM
Skiing 2:00:00 [2]
Skiing in the Jungfrau region, on the north side of the Grindelwald valley in the morning then moving across to the Kleine Scheidegg ridge in the afternoon, finishing up in Wengen. It would be hard to imagine a better day for skiing than this - heaps of snow (the latest top-up two days ago), sunny, no wind, and not particularly cold (about 0) but not warm enough to start generating slush. The only drawback was that a fairly substantial part of the Swiss population had also noticed that it was a good day to ski, but even then it didn't feel anywhere near as crowded as it did last year (probably because where I was last year the conditions were very ordinary and everyone was cramming onto the handful of runs with vaguely reasonable snow).
The highlights were two top-to-bottom runs into the Grindelwald valley, one from each side, on either side of lunch, both with well over 1000 metres of vertical - you definitely won't find that at Hotham or Thredbo. (Something else you won't find at Hotham or Thredbo is three-quarter-buried farmhouses or the fragrance that comes from lots of cows in close proximity, although the Victorian government is doing its best to address the latter).
Also managed to avoid any crashes this time (but then I wasn't pushing the limit of my capabilities as hard as I was last time). Quads a bit sore at times early but better in the afternoon; will be interesting to see how I come up tomorrow.
Something lost in the translation department: on sale in Grindelwald was an anti-fog treatment for goggles, by the name of "Cat Crap". I think 'crap' means something (other than what it means in English) in the Romansch language spoken in the southeast mountains of Switzerland.
The highlights were two top-to-bottom runs into the Grindelwald valley, one from each side, on either side of lunch, both with well over 1000 metres of vertical - you definitely won't find that at Hotham or Thredbo. (Something else you won't find at Hotham or Thredbo is three-quarter-buried farmhouses or the fragrance that comes from lots of cows in close proximity, although the Victorian government is doing its best to address the latter).
Also managed to avoid any crashes this time (but then I wasn't pushing the limit of my capabilities as hard as I was last time). Quads a bit sore at times early but better in the afternoon; will be interesting to see how I come up tomorrow.
Something lost in the translation department: on sale in Grindelwald was an anti-fog treatment for goggles, by the name of "Cat Crap". I think 'crap' means something (other than what it means in English) in the Romansch language spoken in the southeast mountains of Switzerland.