Grindelwald Season Stats

The Swiss love their trains..

As its just past mid-summer, this is obviously the time to think about snow. Found this clever little tool on the website of the resort I was in last season, that tallys up all your days on the hill, and gives you a breakdown of what lifts you used, when, vertical that day etc..

So, from 15/12/08 - 17/04/09:

78 Individual days skiing in Grindelwald

803 lifts used

366914 m vertical over the course of the season - more than I thought it would be, as Grindelwald is a bit of a flat resort

6 days in Chamonix on a course

6 days working in Courmayeur

Which gives us a grand total of 90 days skiing last season, with a few ski touring days as well.

NUMBER OF DAYS CLIMBING: 1 - Not so good.

Me sketching about, leaning too far back, again..

Emma in her element, the piste

View from Lauterbrunen

Start of the Lauberhorn downhill

The Eiger from the house at night

(Photo Ollie)

Quality snow. Ollie going deep

End of season musings..

Well best get this started! Here is a selection of photos from the recent season in Grindelwald, Switzerland. Not much work, but guess that leaves plenty of time for skiing, eh?












Grindelwald is a bit of a funny wee place, it's quite a flat resort with only a few steeper areas, and finding decent off-piste can be a challenge. It seems to attract alot of old Swiss punters who like to cruise about and enjoy the view.. still, when it does snow, they tend to leave the fresh stuff alone, which suits me fine! There is good touring to be had in the area, but a lack of partners who were up for hiking more than 50m meant that I only managed some short tours.. Lack of work meant there was plenty of time to improve my own skiing, which will have to be taken up a step in some areas if the ISIA is to be completed. Spent alot of time on the one bump run in the resort, up, down, up, down, over and over again until I began to feel some improvment, my knees hurt now...

So, overall, 128hrs teaching in Grindelwald, and 24hrs in Couyrmayer - not the most profitable season ever, thats for sure.. Still, plenty of time for jumping off cliffs and skiing powder!


Ollie and the ever present Eiger