It might have been freezing on Boxing Day but the views were stunning – and despite risking frostbite I managed to get these snaps before I started to cry from the cold. The sacrifices I make for you…

There’s about a foot of snow on the piste everywhere, and it’s still coming down. And it looks like this:

Suddenly the snow stopped and the clouds parted and we got a glimpse of what’s on offer tomorrow…

The snow’s coming down in town and the forecast is for it to keep going all day. Which nearly makes up for the act we were due a load more on Friday but there’s high pressure moving north over the Med which has scuppered things. (Now, that’s a pretty geeky answer but we know you only deal in the cold hard facts).

Still, it’s pretty relentless snow this morning so cross something for us…

Meanwhile it’s been baltic in resort the last few days, but it’s also been blue skies and looking stunning. This stunning in fact:

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Snow update…

Here are a couple of snaps in town this morning but we’ve also just been told they’ve got over a foot of fresh down by Lake Geneva (cheers Rob – and everyone else have a read of his splendid blog).

Well, I know it’s not nice to gloat, but our office looks like this and it’s brilliant. Gloat over. Sorry.

Yup, the lifts are open and the snow is falling. The fact it’s falling at Attelas and not any lower was not ideal, so it was a rather soggy Lac des Vaux opening.

But we can all start with platitudes about a good dense base and cold nights etc…

Still, it was good get up there and there’s a proper fall coming next week so please cross your fingers.

However the highlight of the day was getting back to Verbier via the big new lifts. So new they were still making them when we went down, and let me tell you that getting being casually waved into a lift by a man who seconds earlier appeared to be trying to fit something important-looking to it is not a confidence instilling experience… But Rob was a very, very brave boy.