Reconnaissance

Tomorrow we're off to meet a work colleague who's out here for a week with his family.  He's over in Super Chatel and we're meeting him the afternoon.  So, today, given than the lift times have all changed for the school holidays, we just had to check out the lift closing times, which believe it or not, i could not find online, of all the lifts we need to get back home in time.  If we don't get the right lift in time, it's a 100 euro taxi back home.

By car, Super Chatel, so called not because it's particularly super-duper, but because its above Chatel, is about an hour and a half away.  On skis we think we can do it in about an hour.  That's not including lunch and kitting up and all the other non-skiing related task we have to do to get out there.

All together, it's going to take us about 2 hours to get there, and if we're really speedy about an hour and a half to get back.  That gives us only about 2 hours in Super Chatel itself.  And exhausted two hours no doubt given the pace we'll have to go to get there.  Should be fun anyway, and we may even get to have another go on the best run in the universe: Barbossines.

While over in Plaine Dranse today, which is on our return route for tomorrow, we finally got a good shot of Ian's Canyon.  Natalie has really long legs!  This shot was taken about half-way down.

And this is looking up it from the bottom.  You can tell it's called Ian's Canyon because it's even got my name written on it.

It was really hot today.  Today was the first day i've skied without thermals.  And even without the thermals i was still getting too hot so Natalie took this shot because this kind of outfit isn't seen too often in the Alps in Winter.  And i was still too hot.