So the forecast today was always pretty rubbish and sadly for once it was right.

What that picture fails to capture is the horizontal snow and birds flying backwards past the window.

After the complexity of dropping off the youngest member of the extended family at ski school, not helped at all by the blizzard conditions, we headed out to review which lifts were open.

As you can see our options were limited, and they open the lifts because it is technically possible, not because anybody in their right mind would go up them. They did open one more lift for a bit. We tried it and the lift was OK but the run had patches of wind polished ice which were not.

We got a few runs in before retreating to our apartment for a leisurely lunch.

Tried again in the afternoon, as there was a bit less horizontal snow. There was fierce competition for the role of staying on the magic carpets with the youngest member of the party. The rest of is had a  couple more runs while the lift company kept changing there mind on which lifts were safe to run in some conditions perhaps best described as ‘unpleasant with sunny intervals’. Minor incidents including one member of our party face planting on a sheet of ice which clearly stung a bit as they stood up asking us “is my face still there”. No apparent lasting damage done.

Looks nice now… because you can’t see the 40kmph wind still howling past the window….

Anyway it has been a dream to ski with our extended family for quite a few years so we are not going to let a bit of weather spoil our mood. Forecast for tomorrow is much better.