After a 3.5 hour flight and a 3 hour train ride, we arrived in Fiesch, Switzerland to meet up with the Telemark Ski Company for a week of skiing lessons. After a quick night in Fiesch, we woke up to 4 inches of fresh powder. We hustled onto the gondola, tossed our bags into the hotel we'd call home for the rest of the week in Fiescheralp then hit the slopes. Little did we know, it would be the only fresh powder we'd see all week.
Despite the lack of fresh powder throughout the week, our instructors did a great job of teaching as well as finding untouched powder stashes throughout the mountain. After classes ended on Thursday, we had another day and a half of skiing with students from the class, then Meg and I continued on our own for two more days.
We also took a ride up to the top of Eggishorn to check out the longest glacier in the Alps, the Aletsch Glacier. I took the below photo of Meg on top of the Eggishorn with the Matterhorn in the background.
Overall, it was a fantastic trip where we met some great folks with lots of similar interests. We discovered several other skiers were also serious runners and that an instructor, Graham, was quite the runner himself. Besides a great trip where I was able to continue to get better at telemark skiing, we found a bunch of contacts for potential summer running options.
'cause, you know, I needed another reason to get on a plane and travel to distant points on the planet to do some adventure. :)
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