Skiing at Crans Montana- Day 2

Morning over the Alps. 

Sunday was just as beautiful and warm as Saturday and I was up early for a snow shoe hike before the slopes opened.  I actually got a really good night's sleep, since everyone started eating and drinking when the lifts closed at 5pm so most were in bed by midnight.

Morning solo snowshoe. 

I have never actually snowshoed before, so I wanted to give it a try.  I hiked a bit down the mountain and through some forest.  I didn't go too far, because I didn't want to get lost.  I did lose a mitten and have to re-trace my steps to find it.  Luckily, that's easy to go when you leave snowshoe tracks!

The cabin from the outside.

After breakfast and coffee, we hit the slopes again.  The sky was so clear and sunny, that the mountains looked like they were painted on in the background.  It really was a breathtaking sight!

Another perfect day of skiing.

I tried to take a video while skiing down the top of Plaines Morts.  I was thinking about Christopher's wipeout on family fun weekend while video taping and biking, but I managed to stay on my feet (at least while taking this video).  I did have one huge wipeout on Sunday, where I bent the bindings on one of my skis.  With Anj's help, I was able to bend it back enough so that the skis were still ski-able.  I was lucky that it was not my knee or ankle that bent like that!  Also, the skis were rentals, so sorry to the next one who rents them!

When the lifts closed at 4:30, we headed to a bar at the bottom of the hill for a couple of drinks before the bus arrived to pick us up.  They take their apres ski quite seriously in Switzerland!

Sunset over Montana.

The bus driver took us home through the French Alps, and past Mont Blanc on our way home to avoid traffic.  It's too bad it was dark, because I'm sure it was a beautiful route.