Yup, I finally got to ski this year, albeit only for a couple of hours. As you may be able to tell from the picture on the left, the weather was quite spectacular yesterday, and the mountain was more or less deserted because it was Friday and a workday- I guess it's only in select parts of Europe that Easter is a 5-day weekend :o)

It could also be due to the fact that the locals knew the snow would be less than optimal for skiing this late in spring. And it was kind of heavy - like slush-ice - so it was a bit difficult to get it right the first couple of runs.

The temperature was a nice 2-5 centigrade with the Sun glaring down from azure blue sky with almost no wind. Of course Jesper and I payed the price later in the afternoon: The picture doesn't show, but my face was taking a huge penalty from the Sun at this point - and since we were only going to ski for a couple of hours, neither of us thought of bringing sun-lotion. Yesterday evening my face was really warm and the color of a boiled lobster. Today it's a little better, but I keep facial expressions to a minimum as frowning, smiling, grinning and wrinkling my nose is a little painful. You'd think you'd have learnt stuff like this at 31, but no...

The location was at the Timberline Lodge (the exterior of which was used in Kubrick's "The Shining" - cues: Stephen King, Jack Nicholson, "Here's Johnny"). There were only three runs open, and only one of those was worth running on, as the other two lay below the hotel and hence were in an extremely melted state. The final run was ok but the snow got a little heavy at the bottom. If (when :o) I'm coming again, we probably won't go back up there as I kind of like the idea of being able to have a lot of different runs available (spoiled from too many trips to the Alpes, I guess), but it was nice to have tried it.