Tranny at the TransAlpine (26th - 27th January)

On the last weekend of January, Ali, Doug and Roddy came over for a weekend of Skiing in -guess where- Verbier, that's right.

We had a fantastic day on the Saturday and found much more fresh snow than had been expected (hadn't snowed for 5 days). In the morning we did Stairway which was fun. In the afternoon, using some very useful local knowledge, we went up and did the left hand couloir off the Mont Fort backside, followed by a steep boot-pack, followed by "Superbowl"... fantastic... the lightest snow I've witnessed this season. Possibly because there wasn't loads of it, but still. All in all, a great all-mountain day.







The day was topped off when we discovered that there was a rather tall and well-built transvestite staying at our hotel ("le Transalpin") in Martigny. Don't believe me? well on the Sunday we even spotted him/her out on the slopes and got evidence:



Sunday's skiing was very mogul-intensive, and the skies clouded over a bit in the afternoon making the light flat and making decent off-piste out of the question.