Day 14 : Snow, snow and more snow

The saga of the fox continues, he had another go at the icepack overnight, and John had to use the ski stock again to retrieve the it. The fox had obviously got wise and discarded the icepack (in the protective ziplock bag now) before he chewed any more holes, must have recognised that distinctive blue colour. We are keen to see whether he comes back for another go tonight.
We woke up to find that it was snowing, this continued all day today (John has a marker stick outside our window that he is using as a snow gauge - he has been taking photos periodically to keep an eye on where the snow is up to, there has certainly been a fair amount today). we headed out this morning and caught the best part of the day between about 9.00 - 10.00. After that it got very windy and foggy, even worse than yesterday. We tried every lift to try and find an area that wasn't like being in Antarctica, with no luck. The top two thirds of most runs where blowing a gale, had snow that sand blasted your face and limited visibility! Someone's idea of fun, but not necessarily mine. However the snow itself was pretty good, lots of fresh snow on the runs. We once again hot the beginners area, which had a lot going for it ... visibility, limited wind, great snow and fun tree skiing.
It was the perfect gluhwein day, a perfect lunchtime drink. Once again we enjoyed crowd watching and found much to entertain us.

I reckon the fox is out there watching each morning to see how far I can reach - I bet it will be a bit further away tomorrow - just out of stock reach - doesn't matter I have skis that are longer so bad luck Mr fox, you can't outsmart me.
Great snow today but weather not so good - the beginner area is good fun - they have tree runs and banked runs (like a skierX course) and even ungroomed bits that had nearly knee deep powder! Gluhwein at lunch was great and we finally had "tater tots".
One memory of previous trips revived - they have ads on TV here for prescription drugs that spend 20 seconds telling you how great they are and then 40 seconds with warnings of serious and other possible side effects and telling you to go straight to a doctor if you have any of them - by the time they finish there is no way you would want to take any of them!!