Managed to get away last week for another week's skiing (I shouldn't be having a problems with too much holiday left at the end of this year at this rate :-)).
This time I went to Crans Montana, in Switzerland. This was my first trip skiing in the land of clocks and chocolate.
It was very good. Crans is advertised as the Sunniest resort in Switzerland and so I was planning on getting a bit of a tan. We call it T shirt skiing when the weather is very good and warm, for as long as you don't fall over you can ski without a coat and jumper. Of course if you fall over you get pretty damn wet and when cold so you have to be careful.
The Weather had other plans and for the first couple of days and it snowed heavily. We had about 20inches of snow, which for Europe in March is huge. This meant poor visibility and hard conditions.
Fortunately the tail end of the week was clear so we had some deep powder and sun to give a real magical skiing experience. We could get into the deep powder, just to the sides of the pistes, and once they had bashed down the main pistes we could get in some hard and fast carving runs.
The trip was run by the same people who organised last years Turkey trip for singles and it worked quite well with an interesting selection of people.
