Winter week 2

Its finally started snowing in the village - all we've had this low down for the past 2 weeks has been rain - so its all looking a lot more wintery, and they have been wrapping just about every tree up the village walk in xmas lights so its also more festive. Of course it does mean that there is almost as much light coming through the Venetian blinds at night as there is during the day. Maria has draped her mardi gras beads around the apartment but given the lights outside having our own tree seems a little unnecessary

More of the mountain opened up over the weekend including both peaks, so there is probably about 4x the skiable terrain now available not including the off-piste bowls, and the last dump of snow has stayed in pretty good condition at the higher levels. I've been playing a little on the moguls and piste edges to work on my technique, and i'm definitely improving every day, although its still a lot more tiring than on piste. Weekends have been fairly busy but weekdays are still nice and quiet, although I expect that will change next week as the xmas crowd starts rolling in. I've skied 11 days so far so am well over half way to paying off my season pass compared to the day rate, and i'm skiing a little longer each day, although still doing mornings only and having lunch back at the apartment. Forecast for the next week is some snow every day, so we may get a white xmas at last...