Today was our first day of skiing in the World’s largest ski area.
They have 159 ski lifts. We took 14 different ones today (16 lifts total).
All of the ones we took today were chairlifts or enclosed gondolas. Almost all of them take 6 people at a time, and some can load 2 chairs at a time.
The village we are staying in is pretty big. It is almost all ski in / ski out hotels and restaurants.
They have tunnels so that you can ski under the road without getting hit by cars.
This is where Kerri decided to ski up this hill to get a pretty picture. That up part is much steeper than it looks. And the other side is vertical and all rocks. There are lots of ski tracks going up, but mostly boot tracks going back down.
She managed it though. No wipe outs on the first day!
The view up there was nice.
Of course this rather similar view from the chairlift was much easier.
The skiing conditions were great. It didn’t get slushy even though it was 5 degrees.
Eventually Matt had to take a break and adjust his boots because he has a super disgusting blister around the top of his sock. He took a picture, but I’m not putting it in here because it is gross.
Afterwards we relaxed before dinner in the pool. The 30 degree Celsius pool with the lazy river that leads to a waterfall.
And whatever this is. It looks to be three super powerful jets of water and it feels like it. It all focuses around a single point so multiple people can’t really use it.
Kerri relaxed in the bubble bed area.
After all that we dug into our dinner. A five course French dinner. Tonight the main dish was rabbit or pig cheek. Kerri misses Italy, too much cream on everything. Matt is not unhappy it was all delicious (except some of the cheeses, still not a big cheese person).
