I know two gloating pictures of sunshine in one day is unfair but today is amazing…

Verbier. Looks a bit like toy town, but very cool. (Oh, and click full screen to get the full effect…).

One day in Verbier from Sacha Fehlmann on Vimeo.

Time laps movie of the Alps made in Verbier, Switzerland.

Yes, we might not get any sensational rioting carnage here in Verbier, although a few of the marmottes are getting a bit lippy. But we do get sunshine from time to time. And today is one of those times.

Needless to say this is both strangely engaging and also Japanese. Discovered via the mighty Planet Ski and so weird it seemed wrong not to preserve it here for posterity. For those of you who know a thing or two about post production, how do you reckon they did it?

Er, yes. It’s been snowing again just above Ruinettes. So I went up and had a wander around – it’s rather nice, if chilly. And the higher you go the more snow there is, until you get to Col des Gentianes where there are a good few inches.

But whilst it’s a bit of a weird concept to get snow in the summer, it’s not that odd here. Although not exactly welcome.

Oh, and they’re clearly busy blowing things up on the track from Cabane Mont Fort to LA Chaux, as there are lots of warning signs as well as diagrams of what explosions look like (for walkers with poor imaginations I suppose…).