Wetness is the Essence of Moisture

i was quite worried about it.  The way people had spoken about it you'd think skiing in the rain was worse than working in IT.  It isn't!  It's really not that bad.  And, it has some great advantages.  Firstly, it keeps the muggles away, and secondly, much higher up, just where the rain is turning to snow, the skiing is superb.  Grippy, fast snow and you get to lay fresh tracks.  We had a great time.

We did get quite wet though, so much so that the only time we "stopped" to take photos was on the drag lift.  This is me looking wet on the drag lift.

Actually, i noticed something quite profound today.  On any given day in the season, let's conservatively assume there are 5000 skiers and resort workers in the Portes du Soleil.  Let's assume half of these people have some item, either salopettes or a jacket or gloves containing GORE-TEX® adding up to an average of 1 square meter of fabric.  So that's 2500 square meters of arguably the best waterproof, windproof, breathable fabric currently available today.  The GORE-TEX® label certainly adds a good 25% to the cost of any item containing it.

So why, when all these muggles have spent oodles of cash on extremely expensive jackets, gloves, and salopettes do they hide indoors on the one day of their week out here when the GORE-TEX® would actually get to prove how good it is?  Today i suspect there were less than 500 people out in the entire resort.  So that's 2250 square meters of GORE-TEX® hanging on hooks instead of out fighting the cold and wet.  So listen up muggles, next time you spend £700 on a GORE-TEX® jacket from Prada, why not give it to someone who'll actually use it rather than letting it - oh, what's the point?

Anyway, we had a great day and our GORE-TEX® proved again how totally awesome it really is.  Well, i did get some snow inside my salopettes but that's more to do with bouncing, karate-kick-style off the piste into a snow drift than the GORE-TEX® allowing some water inside i suppose.

Whiteout again today and there's apparently half a meter of snow coming in the next 5 days!  It's going to be epic.  This is Natalie in said whiteout on the button-lift.  Notice how the cables disappear into the void, very cool.