Cervinia ~ Italia (the other side of Zermatt / The Matterhorn)
Too much snow to ski!? Really?
Yes, finally the snow has arrived in the Alps...and it arrived with a vengence. We had done some thorough discussing of where exactly to go - narrowing to Aosta because not all the Alps have been blessed with snow. Lin said Cervinia was our best bet because it was dumping and is so high. We had never skied there before but had always wanted to, so plans were confirmed.
We woke up at 5.00 AM and arrived promptly at 8.30 to be the first on the slopes. But there had been an avalanche on the road arriving into Cervinia so they had to clear that. Then we had to wait in the bar because there was just TOO much snow that they had to fly a helicopter around to blow it up as a preemptive strike against any potential avalanches. It sounded a bit like the 4th of July or a war zone. They stopped when they opened the lifts. But they didn't open them all - at first just the lower ones, but finally the higher ones and we were up HIGH over 3000 meters. It was a crazy amount of amazing snow, the sun was mostly out and it wasn't too freezing as predicted ~ worst on the Suunto was - 12.
Sadly, the Matterhorn never came out from behind the clouds and our legs couldn't keep up with our open the season ski spirit - overall it was a WONDERFUL opening day - better than expected!
Only a few more days of work and school. Yay!
Av' arrives on Friday - the vacay house is prepped for our Christmas festivities as we had to go up there as the window/door craftsman finally finished the bedroom doors and the sliding bathroom door - we are very happy with the results.
Joe's work xmas party was last Friday - it was very fun - I had to admit to Av that we did in fact dance - cringe. Av' didn't give me too much shit about it.
Having a lovely Christmas Time ~
18 dicembre 2011
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