Well I haven’t been skiing for a few days now, and have been enjoying the World Ski and Snowboard Festival. Some great free concerts, the Big Air contest on Saturday night was huge and plenty of side stalls with informative people have kept me busy.

In the meantime, the weather has been erratic. We had a bright, sunny hot day 2 days ago, while today was quite overcast and ‘moody’. It even snowed in the village today. Apparently the surface conditions on the mountains are very hard packed, even ‘icy’ - from the sunny day melting the snow, then the temperatures dropping way down to a low of -10 last night which froze everything solid. Couple that with minimal visibility today from the cloud cover, and I think it was a good day to miss.

I suggest to everyone, that if you come during the Festival week, you should be coming for the Festival itself. The village is crowded, and everyone is having a ball with all the activities. The mountains are generally quiet, but the sunny day was outrageously busy I heard. So if you want some nice, quiet spring skiing, I would recommend avoiding the festival week. If you like to party hard, the this week is for you.

The recent warm weather has really melted the snow, with the base down around 250cm from 280cm around a week ago. So there are some bare patches starting to show.