It was absolutely boiling today – and the fact that I’ve managed to get some hefty sunburn is testament to the news that spring has arrived. Well, for a bit.

But the increase in temperatures saw wet avalanches going off left, right and  center, especially one on the Route de Carrefour that came steaming down towards Kenta as the poor boy watched from the button lift. It actually stopped a good 100 meters above the lift but still took out the road through the trees that normally links the Savoleyres area to Verbier.

Meanwhile Bjorn (my client) took the chance to hurl himself off the mountain whilst attached to Stu from Verbier Summits. And it looked like this…

It’s boiling up there and rather nice. And that’s probably why Mike-or-Stu from Verbier Summits was up messing about in a parapente…

Well, it looks like we only really have a 5 weeks of the season left. Pretty sad really but that’s the way it goes. After a crazy month of work for all of us sadly we have lost Jenny and Maria (Mackan) to the lure of Svenska. Maria is back teaching men to fly planes and Jenny is off to prepare for the sausage season (don’t look too far into that). The rest of us are left to fend for ourselves. We wish them well, and will see them next season (or April if we’re lucky)

Andy (Snowboarder) is finally getting some work, good effort. Being skiers we sometimes forget that Andy exists – very sorry for that mate. But check out his blog on his snowboarding page. You probably won’t understand a word as he uses ridiculous jibber language (trying to stay young, no doubt…).

Meanwhile, good luck to Becky who’s one of our apprentices in the midst of her BASI level 2 ski instructor assessment. We all have the utmost confidence that she will smash it..! We need a 100% pass rate Becky, no pressure…!

I’m also starting to feel less guilty as my foot seems to be improving so I’ll soon be able to take the pressure off the others and do some real work. This Saturday I hope.

Not much gossip off the slope (that we can talk about anyway) but as it warms up and the sun stays out longer, there is plenty of mischief to be getting up to.

WATCH THIS SPACE.

…Toby

Had a pretty amazing day on the hill and this afternoon it was starting to fairly pretty spring-ish with slushy snow low down and strong sunshine. And after skiing down it seemed rude not to stand outside the Fer a Cheval and have a pint whilst getting verbal abuse from Loic.

Alarm clock off. Kettle on. Check the weather. Check the webcams. Grin and go skiing. It’s something of a ritual and it’s rather nice when it looks like this. Enjoy your Sunday (we will…):

It was absolutely amazing up there today – best piste conditions for ages and blue skies to top it off. So we used the classic long morning/ late lunch strategy and spent the day hammering round resort, ending up at Carrefour. There are tougher offices to work in…