It was the winter of the century in Switzerland this season, with loads and loads of great amazing snow, and of course, as Murphy's law suggests, we do not live in Switzerland any longer when it happens.
At least we got to go to beautiful Saas Fee during our annual leave this year. Two days before our arrival, it obviously snowed so much that Saas Fee was completely cut off from everything - tourists couldn't go up to the resort and those who were already up couldn't go down. When we were there, it was stunningly sunny and we had awesome snow conditions, but it was so windy the lifts were completely closed down on two full days.
On one day we had lunch in the restaurant on top (3500 meters above sea level) when suddenly the windstorm set in. It is impressive to experience the forces of nature when you are just a small human being in the eye of the storm. We decided not to take the black slope down this time as one couldn't even see half a meter ahead as the wind blew thick blasts of snow ungraciously into our faces, which turned into icicles immediately, and opted for the red slope. Even then we had a German lady who fought alongside with us against the wind and almost started crying. "I can't see anything and I'm scared, please help me", she whined. When we made it down safely and wanted to go up to the top again, it was closed. But we knew now why.
It was the winter of the century in Switzerland this season, with loads and loads of great amazing snow, and of course, as Murphy's law suggests, we do not live in Switzerland any longer when it happens.
At least we got to go to beautiful Saas Fee during our annual leave this year. Two days before our arrival, it obviously snowed so much that Saas Fee was completely cut off from everything - tourists couldn't go up to the resort and those who were already up couldn't go down. When we were there, it was stunningly sunny and we had awesome snow conditions, but it was so windy the lifts were completely closed down on two full days.
On one day we had lunch in the restaurant on top (3500 meters above sea level) when suddenly the windstorm set in. It is impressive to experience the forces of nature when you are just a small human being in the eye of the storm. We decided not to take the black slope down this time as one couldn't even see half a meter ahead as the wind blew thick blasts of snow ungraciously into our faces, which turned into icicles immediately, and opted for the red slope. Even then we had a German lady who fought alongside with us against the wind and almost started crying. "I can't see anything and I'm scared, please help me", she whined. When we made it down safely and wanted to go up to the top again, it was closed. But we knew now why.
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