Horrible Autumn is finally over! Time to head for the mountains in search of snow and real Winter.
As usual, we open the season with resort skiing. The crowds and pressed snow are a necessary evil to get prepare us for touring. This year we decided to try Graubunden, in east Switzerland.
First, four days in Davos/Klosters. Since we want to get the most skiing for our money and don't care much for expensive bars and restaurants we stayed at the village of Saas, which is well connected to the resort by buses and trains and where we could get affordable accommodation.
The resort is divided in several parts connected by buses and trains, as is typical in Switzerland. Plenty of open spaces for variants, but this early in the season there was not enough snow to make the most of them.
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| View of Saas from the Klosters ski area. |
Than we moved to the large resort of Laax. This is a modern, connected resort in the "French style".
After the first day there it started to snow loads. It also meant we had several days of rough weather with low temperatures, strong winds and poor visibility. Such is high winter skiing, but in between there were plenty of sunny breaks to allow us views of this part of the Central Alps.
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| Magnificent alpine landscape. |
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| An inversion: cloud over the valley and sunshine in the mountains. |
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| Weird rainbow as the afternoon sun came out of the snow clouds. |
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| A snowboarding ghost? |
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| Ready for action. |
Let the touring season begin!
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