the ski-venture

25/2/15

Mel and Rachael's Ski-Venture.

Today turned out to be a beautiful, sunny, clear and really fun day.  Rachael and I caught a lift with the ski shuttle at nine am down to Oey, from which we caught the gondola up to the top of Silleren.  From the top of Silleren we skied down to Giles, and caught the gondola back up to Hahnenmoos. From the top of Hahnenmoos we  skied down to Metschmaad and then down further to Metsch.  From Metsch we caught the new gondola down to Rothenbach, and then the bus out to Lenk.

  

Skiing down to Metsch and the Gondola down to Rothenbach

 

Rachael and I 

   

Lenk and the Gondola up

Rachael and I skied down a blue run initially from the top Leiterli to the second gondola station, Stoss.  From there we caught the gondola back up to the top and skied half way down the run.  Then Rachael decided she was hungry so we stopped on the side of the run and ate our lunch!

  

The view from our lunch spot!

After we finished our lunch. (we didn't get run over!) we skied down a red run right to the bottom of Lenk.  My first red run!!  I didn't fall over whilst skiing the run either! I only fell over when we stopped to take a photo next to the red pole to prove I did it!  (On a side note, it is not a good idea to throw your phone down a ski run, even if you are only throwing it 2 m to someone else to take a picture... it ends up down the hill).  

 

Rachael and I headed back to Silleren after we had skied down to the bottom of Lenk.  It took us over 30 mins to get back up the mountain to Metsch where we were able to ski down to Giles. There we caught the bus to Berglager.  At the gondola station we saw Ana and Danielle; they were running the Silleren Hike and Sled day with our guests.  Rachael and I said hi and then caught the gondola back up to the top.  From there we skied down the sled run, passing our guests at the same time, back down to the second gondola station.  Passing Ana and Danielle again, we continued 'skiing' (it was a very very flat, sometimes uphill run) down all the way to Oey, where we arrived at 3:10.  Migue picked us and some guests up at 3:30, there's nothing like seeing the guests and knowing that your lift is coming!

After spending the afternoon packing and cleaning, dinner was Cottage Pie and we didn't have to clean up! Instead we went back to Stockli and celebrated our last night there.