Grund

We went down to Saas Grund yesterday, unfortunately the park still wasn't built, it was very busy, and the pistes were grim. But the sun was out and it was hot, so we sat at the side in the sun, much better!

Christmas time

On Christmas eve the whole mountain was shut due to wind, so we decided to take an adventure over to Saas-Almagell. We managed to ski along the walking path down to Almagell, which took about 20 minutes with a bit of pushing and a little walk at the start, unfortunately there was only the bottom chair lift and a button lift open when we got there. Luckily there was still quite a lot of nice (ish) powder around, so we spent the day skiing the lower trees and un-groomed pistes.

Saas-Almagell from Jack Mullner on Vimeo.

More snow

Its still snowing on and off, so today we went up and got fresh tracks yet again, the snow was a bit uneven and to prove this, Twig managed to double eject into a snow drift. We only did a few runs today as the visibility was very poor again, but I snapped a few pics to throw on here.

Me, Jamie and Twig, sorry for the blur!

Jamie wearing my outerwear

My new outerwear finally arrived!

Windswept fun

The mountain was open again today so me and Jamie with the new arrival of Twig, headed up the hill. For Twig's first run of the season we hopped out of bounds and hit some windswept powder, which seemed to be the theme of the day really. We had a few nice runs with the sun poking its head out for a minute at one point, but that was short lived and the clouds closed in again pretty quickly. The pistes were pretty grim today, super hard, bumpy and unsurprisingly, windswept, but for the first time this year we could ski all the way to the bottom. Avalanche risk is obviously incredibly high at the moment due to getting a dump of over a meter with no base, but we have heard plenty of blasting going on so hopefully its reasonably safe up there now, we aren't risking hitting any big lines still though, the risk is too high and I'm sure there will be more, safer opportunities throughout the season. I took a short clip from my head cam this afternoon, unfortunately it wasn't in the 10 second sun window.

Pow run head cam from Jack Mullner on Vimeo.

Caught with his pants down, sorry Twig. Awkward looking fellow passengers.

Building a kicker

Today with the help of Kraggers and Luke we did in fact build the previously mentioned kicker, which Kraggers immediately tried back flips off of, so I of course had to step up. Unfortunately I did not manage to stick any flips, but it is only December the 17th, so I am confident I will be able to tick them off the season goals list by the end. Here are a couple of clips from the day, basically of people crashing.

Jack back flip attempt from Jack Mullner on Vimeo.

Kicker clips from Jack Mullner on Vimeo.

Continued Dumpage!

I woke up this morning and looked out the window, what an insane amount of snow and its still snowing hard now. The mountain is closed today and tomorrow due to avalanche risk, so tomorrow we are going to go build a small kicker somewhere to practise a few things on.

Dumpage!

So its been dumping for the last few days now, and Jamie's new K2 Obsethed's arrived today with such perfect timing. His first run on powder skis was ridiculous, steep and deep comes to mind! At mid level we had about 40cm of fresh, and at the top was the lightest 60 cm of powder, face shots were abundant. Unfortunately visibility was almost 0, but who needs visibility when you have powder spraying in your face anyway? Annoyingly once we were on the lift up, I realised the screw to hold my gopro on my helmet was missing, so the clips from today are handheld, which is pretty hard in powder! We only got 2 clips today, from about mid level, as the snow was too good and the visibility too bad at the top to bother doing any filming. Another 40cm is forecast tonight and tomorrow morning, so the next few days should be good!

Along with the epic ski day, we also had an awesome meal a couple of days ago. Chicken breasts stuffed with cream cheese and garlic, wrapped in bacon, accompanied by home made garlic and chilli chips. I have uploaded a photo of the meal, which doesn't really do it justice, sort of looks like when restaurants add a horrible photo of the meal next to each entry on the menu.

Jacks quick run in the pow from Jack Mullner on Vimeo.

Jamie Pow from Jack Mullner on Vimeo.

Ski beginnings

On Saturday we went for a ski, lovely weather and ridiculously hot for December. Conditions were really good with a few areas of fresh snow left lying around. I went up on my EP Pro's which I am loving at the moment and Jamie was on his Punx, we were messing around in the chopped up stuff to the side of the piste and there was a small drop, probably about 6 feet high which Jamie double ejected off of, onto his face. First blood!

Other than that it has just started to snow, and about 70+ cm are forecast in the next week, so pretty stoked at the moment. We were wandering around the town today, running a few errands so I got a few pics to upload.

Jew Skier

High Street

Our "Crib"

Snowing Hard!

Enter the Dragon

Hello, thought a lot of people would be interested in what the jeff we are up to... So a blog has been spawned, where we may sometimes post some pictures and tell you stories of snow and ski. Sometimes it will be like "This ski was good" sometimes it will be like "This ski was bad". If anyone happens to stumble upon this who doesn't actually know us, have you seen the film Ratatouille, where a Rat makes it as a chef. Well its like that, but it's 2 rats making it as cleaners in a little ski resort in Switzerland called Saas Fee.

I have been out here since November the 19th, been doing a lot of cleaning, and skied a couple of times. Jamie arrived on December one. We set upon work with great gusto and enthusiasm, and on the second day dropped everything to go skiing, not before cleaning those apartments to within an inch of their lives, which was not an easy feat considering our fellow worker Richard Martin was doing his level best to royally dirt up the place. He can be forgiven though as he is making some lovely bathrooms.

No snow when I arrived, lovely weather though.

No snow again

Some snow happening

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