Well we are back again for another ski trip. With what probably counts as a serious lack of imagination we are in exactly the same apartment as last year! Having left the UK in a massive rainstorm and negotiated a few fallen trees to get to the train we awoke the first morning to…. A snowstorm!
It has been snowing heavily all day, here is the view from our balcony when we returned. The higher lifts opened late as they were avalanche blasting.

It is not at all cold, and so this snow is wet. As we experienced last year it will be great once we can see it, we have probably got 40cm of fresh snow, but skiing while it is falling is a right pain, and on the first day when you are finding your balance it is even worse. In the odd moments you could see it the fresh powder at the side of the runs was great fun, although it did lead to the best faceplant I have done in years.
This year we are trying some new helmets with built in Visors, rather than wearing goggles, They seem to do a better job of not steaming up than goggles, they go over glasses and and you can just slide them up when you walk into a cafe.

Most importantly they provide endless opportunities for gratuitous Top Gun quotes….

With all this wet snow, despite all our waterproof gear we were getting pretty damp, so we had a reasonably short days skiing the full details captured on our rinky dinky app…