Cervinia part II

Wednesday morning around 9 on our way over the mountains to Zermatt. The sun is just climbing up and the pists are like manchester. Couldn't be much better.

A better view of Matterhorn from zermatt. Just like the Toblerone picture. Quite steep, can't believe people climbing that thing. Like mr Nilsson I believe.

A cup of hot chocolate in Zermatt. Sun is shining and Zermatt in the background. Nice.

Off post skiing in Zermatt. As no one is there to take my pictures skiing I thought I would take a photo of the tracks. Both are mine and they were nice indeed to make. Quite a few people go off post but still every now and then you find areas like this were you don't have to cross a single track on your way down. The ropes and flags are there to encourage people to go outside the pist. I think.

"I swear it was this big. At least!" Ulf boasting on the picnic STS arranged on Wednesday after lunch.

The picnic was a good event. Some 30-40 people at most in a sunny slope up on the mountain

Yes, we actually fell asleep on the top of the mountain after the picnic. Don't know if I should blame it on the warm sun shine, the soft snow or the beers we had for picnic.

View out from the mountain on wednesday. Pretty prefect.

On thursday we were back in Zermatt skiing. All of a sudden a train came up the mountain to somewhere around 3000 meters hight. Maybe SJ could make a visit to learn something about running trains in snowy conditions?

We came across an igloo village. It started early 90's with a couple of guys staying overnight on the mountain in igloos just to see the sunrise and be the first ones skiing. The rumor spread, more people wanted to try and today they have established a company with igloo villages on 6 different sites serving 10.000 overnight guests per year. pretty awesome.

Inside one of the igloos serving as bar and restaurant.

Today Friday was all white again. Windy and a lot of snow coming down. A lot like sunday but a few more slopes open though colder and more wind. The nose took quite a hit. We hope for better weather tomorrow when we will have almost a full day skiing before taking off to the airport.