December 2007

The beginning of the month saw us in St. Anton for the season opening. It has been a long time since the snow has been this good this early in the winter, lets hope it stays that way. We moved into the apartment and spent the Friday night putting things in place and generally sorting stuff out, we did a good job preparing this time and only forgot a few item.  We were surprised to see how much has changed in the village in just one summer. We hardly recognised the Jennewein ski depot. We bumped into several people we knew. We skied for 2 days before driving home in the rain.  The following weekend and we are back in St Anton, it has snowed quite a lot in the last week, so we were able to even ski off-piste. Olav joined us on some test skis, judging by the whoops of joy, he liked them. The powder was light and fluffy on Sunday and the visibility a bit better than the day before so we skied considerably more, thank goodness we travelled by train because we were both tired after two exhilarating days.  The third weekend in a row and we are back in St. Anton, the snow is fantastic this year. We had some really great untracked powder on the Saturday. We met up with Heinz, Willy Jürgen und Ueli, its great to see all the familiar faces again, and to ski with them too. The fourth weekend in a row saw us yet again in St. Anton, this time we stayed for the whole week. The snow was fantastic, but after Christmas things really started to fill up. We decided to escape the crowds by doing a ski tour, we walked up the mountain for about and hour and a half to the Putzenalm, enjoyed a picnic in the sun before skiing down. Thanks Heinz for the tuition and coaching. We were both really tired the following day though.  We are now up to a total of 19 ski days for this season. We both had to work the last day of the year, so we spent new years eve at home, enjoying some great music.

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