March 2008

A stormy weekend at home so start the month, it is very wet and blow out so that makes it a good weekend for catching up at home before heading of to St. Anton at the end of the week. The good news is they are forecasting a week of snow falls so we may have some fresh powder to ski in March, if the temperatures are low enough. The weather really is unpredictable with warm weather in January and February and hopefully a good dump of snow in March. The week in St Anton was certainly a mix of all weather conditions, from rain to snow to beautiful cloudless sunny days.  The snow did greatly improved condition, this also meant a lot less hiking too. We were disappointed to hear that Harold had hurt his leg, he was able to ski, but not with Alois. This meant that Peter had a ski partner for most of the week.   He has not the only one to collect injuries, Mike was unable to ski for 3 days with and injured back, Duncan hurt his shoulder in a wipe-out and Michelle collected a black eye after she and Duncan collided on an almost empty off Piste run. We had one particularly fantastic day skiing the old back of Rendl. We managed a couple of really nice carpets of ski tracks. Ron and Susanne were back, these guys are unstoppable, the y ski both before and after ski school and never seem to get tired. Ueli was also back but left early because it started to rain. The Rain didn't stop us from skiing and the mood in the group was cheerful almost amused at the variability in the weather. Jürg had us in  fits of laughter with a mean Pink Floyd Ski guitar solo. We met up with a nice Kiwi couple Graham and Julie who skied a couple of days with us, and another Kiwi couple Grant and Joya who we skied with before but were in a different group this year. We are back home for a very short 4 day work break before returning for Easter, hopefully our legs and shoulders and eyes recover by then. 

Pictures at  http://www.duncanguy.dyndns.org/StAnton0804/index.htm

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