Verbier - New Year 06/07

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In between jobs and had a week to go before being starting a new (old?) career in Geneva.

This is the second new year spent in Verbier (also spent 2005 / 06 there, but in swanky montpellier hotel). Got an apartment with TP this time, and spent 31st Dec - 7th Jan on the mountains.

It had not snowed for about two weeks prior to 31st Dec. Green patches everywhere. As luck would have it, it blizzard for about 24 hours the day we arrived. Avalanche alert the next day, but we had enough good days with plenty of sunshine and powder for the week. Awesome.

Finally got to the top of Mont Fort on a sunny day. As expected, the view was spectacular and worth all the trouble to get there.

New year celebration was fun. Lots of yobs drunk. Running around naked in -5C. Go figure ...

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Photos

The apartment
Top floor - clean, cosy and comfortable - that is all that is needed (a few francs cheaper would have been a bonus).

Savoleyres
View form the bus stop - fresh dump overnight. It was patchy green 24 hrs before this picture was taken.

Verbier
View of Verbier from Le Chable

Up to Mont Fort
Cable car up to Mont Fort. The stars seemed to be in perfect allignment - after three different attempts at three different times to reach the peak, today is finally the picture perfect day.

Mont Blanc? from Mont Fort
Is that Mont Blanc at the far right?

Piste in Savoleyres
Sunny, fantastic visibility, perfect wind condition and almost empty pistes. What more could you ask for?

Verbier town from Savoleyres
Another excellent day for picture taking. This time from Savoleyres, which was meant to be the easier of the two main lifts to the pistes. excellent ski conditions. It was our last day, just as well because my legs had just about enough.