11 February 2010

Two days gone since my last posting and everything still going up- and downhill smoothly. It is just that after our trip to the Marmolada Glacier the weather turned into a bad way. Tuesday afternoon already clouds came coming up and yesterday was even a sad grey day. Today was still cloudy and snow fell down.
Skiing with such a weather is a quite different experience, because of the little contrast in colors you cannot see any relief in the snow so actually you have no idea where you are going to.
Because of the new snow the slopes were not prepared and during the day little snow mountains (half a meter high) are created and you have to find your way in between, which means you have to make a lot of fast curves and if you misses one you’ll go right through it. After an hour or so you are really tired of it and it will not surprise you we were back at the hotel early in the afternoon.

Tomorrow will be our last day of skiing for this year and according to the hotel owner it is going to be a nice day and in the past he used to be always right about the weather.
Saturday I will leave Ortisei at around 6 in the morning to keep far away from any traffic jams as because of the carnival weekend lots of traffic is expected in the southern parts of Germany.

Till next time,
Arjan