Blogs from North-East, Switzerland, Europe - page 49

I never get tired of riding trains through the Alps. Although this time it was a sleeper train so I caught only what I could in the bit of daylight we had. We got to Zurich in the morning and we didn't find our friends awaiting us in a rented peugeot as planned. In light of this we made our way to our nearby guesthouse and proceeded with the check-in. We left our bags in the room and walked back to the train station for Ret to get some cash and in hopes of finding our ride. I only waited for about 5 minutes when, to my surprise, a brand new black Mercedes stops at my feet. It even took me a moment to realise that it was in fact my ride. Turns out the rental ... read more

The trip to Zurich was an amazing adventure. We started out on a sleeper train from Rome around 8:30 and it was a lot of fun. We brought a bottle of wine and Trey and I, along with the Swiss student that was in our cabin, played dominos until about 11:00. Then it was time for bed. We were woken up by the train official when we pulled into Zurich. What a way to travel. In a sleeper cabin, you have an option of 2, 4, or 6 person cabins. Each person has a bed so it is rather comfortable. When we got to Zurich, out friends Remick and Rachel picked us up in the car we decided to rent. To our surprise, the rental service ran out of the cars we rented so they upgraded ... read more

Well, you might ask: “And this is it? - Just some vacation and some kid's memories?” Of course, there is more. Think about March 5, 2006! Most people in Switzerland will not forget this day. Since November 2005 we had a winter and especially snow like never before - at least to my memory. Because temperatures never really raised much above the freezing point the snow didn't melt away as it normally does. And when it did this winter, shortly after another cold front brought the next load of snow. In the evening of March 4 snow began falling once more. When I woke up the next morning it was still snowing and it lasted for the whole day. The area of Zurich noted 54 cm of fresh snow. If you are not familiar with Swiss ... read more

Hey everyone, Well Switzerland has been a wonderful place to be this last week, mainly due to the amount of fresh snow. We’ve probably had about 18”-2’ but the cold weather has kept it in beautiful condition. The weather has been quite bad from time to time and visibility quite low in places hence we’ve had to look a little bit harder for lines and hits. One thing we’ve been working on in the last week or so is tree riding. Riding whilst looking down through trees, looking for a line is a skill we’ve both been working hard on, add in a few natural hits, fresh untracked powder and you have the kind of run that dreams are made of. Check the photos. Anna arrived on Thursday to spend two weeks in beautiful Davos. For ... read more

(This is one I was supposed to send about a week ago! Sorry its taken so long to publish. I'll write another one in the next few days for the last week!) Well, what a week, Sunday we went exploring and managed to find some awesome tree runs with relatively few tracks (considering it hadn’t snowed in about two and half weeks!) so we sessioned that for a few hours, Monday we went back to the same spot but headed further away from the piste and found completely fresh snow amongst the trees, we also go a little adventurous and hiked up a ridge to get to some powder on a beautiful piece of off-piest-come-back-country……. Cool!!!! Yesterday snowed for the first time in about 3 weeks and we had loads and loads of it. ‘cos of ... read more