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The weather recently has been glorious, really warm with blazing blue skies. It has been like this for 4 weeks. The sun cream has been applied liberally and I am trying to avoid Panda eyes by wearing sunglasses rather than goggles.

Over the weekend we had some guests staying. None of them were here to snow kite so we had some varied days out. A couple of days were spent on the pistes at Belalp. The lack of new snow in the last months is starting to show in places. The snow blowers have been working hard and the Pisten Bullies have started moving snow from drifts to replenish the pistes.

One of the group celebrated his birthday by booking a Tandem Paraglide Flight from the top of the ski area all the way back to the Hotel. This involved a descent of about 3000m and distance of 10 miles.

The following day we drove to the Simplon pass to embark on a snow shoe walk up a mountain for a picnic. Snow shoes are amazing, not just in deep new snow but also in warm sticky snow. You can really walk up anything, float over deep snow in the dips and walk down steep slopes in total control. Although lung busting walking up, the views are worth it and the descent requires an effortless space walking technique reminiscent of Mr Soft. Suprisingly good fun.

Happy days in the sun. Fortunately the forecast is promising 3 days of snow from Sunday. Fingers crossed.

 

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