Les Crosets

The skiing holiday was a blast! Eight days of skiing in the Swiss-French Alps can't easily be beaten. On the first day it was sunny and clear, but there wasn't enough snow, not really. I had to carry my skis down the last hundred meters or so to avoid all sand and dirt. Luckily on the second day it started snowing, which continued for three days and about 30cm snow helped the situation somewhat.

This sad excuse for a slippery slope...

Parts of the slopes were icy, especially after a full day of skiing, but towards the end of the week, winter had finally reached Switzerland. Up on the mountainside it was sometimes extremely windy and cold, but down in the valley in sunshine, it couldn't have been much more beautiful.

..turned into Alps calendar perfection.

At the end of the week, on Thursday or Friday, the weather turned clear and cold again, and I managed to catch a phenomenon called "halo". I tried to photograph it and here's the best I could do. It is a kind of rainbow, but caused by small ice crystals and it looked truly tremendous as it made a complete circle when seen from a ski lift.


There were such nice people on the trip, the organization was so perfect and the food couldn't have been any better, that I wouldn't mind traveling with Pfiff again.