Christmas 2011
Spluegen for Christmas
The battle to reach 22nd December (our last day at work) was won and finally we were on holiday. For some time we had been worried about the apparent lack of snow in Spluegen (and in Switzerland generally), but our fears were unfounded as a week before we arrived there was massive snow fall.....sadly all the ski runs would be shut on our arrival due to avalanche risk.
Nevertheless we made good use of our time.
23rd December 2011
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Our room at Hotel Bodenhaus
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| Spluegen Day 1 and still snowing |
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Afternoon ramble down by the river Hinterhein
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Say cheeese... but freeeze would do too ...
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As cold as it looks
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Wood store or work of art?
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Splugen church with festive covering
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Surely, this is impossible....
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Once a post house and our digs for a few days. Beautiful inside too.
Hotel Bodenhaus
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24th December 2011
With the threat of sunshine and the end of the snow fall it was with a sense of trepidation that we checked if the slopes were open....They weren't....But, the cross country skiing routes in the valley were open, so we went a did that instead :-)
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Good Morning Graubuenden
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Cross country skiing is great fun and here's Meike having great fun...Its also very hard work
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Highway A13. Despite all the snow, still open for business...
Oh and Meike skimming along on her cross country skis |
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| The wing nut cometh. There is a machine that combs the route every day and puts down these grooves. Handy. What we were doing was traditional cross crountry skiing but there's also skating cross country skiing and those guys use the rest of the piste. |
25th December 2011
Christmas day finally saw the skies clearing and the lifts open. Brilliant.
And having had the foresight to pre-hire the skis it was a quick breakfast and then off to the cable car.
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| Smile if you are having a good Christmas day :-) |
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| Another busy day then....but it really was very windy and more than a little cold on the face |
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:-)
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| At the top. |
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Meike on the T bar lift
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Boxing Day, and more of the same :-)
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And the other big runs are open today too.
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How to stay warm on a chair lift....Wear everything you own :-)
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