Ski Wiriehorn

Duncan and I hit the slopes today. First time for in CH for me. Rented skis for the entire season for CHF 135. Can't argue that really. Although they pretty much suck. But they'll do for this year until I get around to purchasing my own pair. Drove down to Wiriehorn, 30 or so minutes. Wonderful. The views were utterly spectacular even though the clouds were quite low. At times we were looking down at them. Some may notice, that on the map, there are no green runs. As I learned for the first time yesterday, US ski runs are defined differently than in Euro-Disney. Here, Blue is easiest, Red is Medium, Black is hardest and Yellow is unmanaged. So when I rented my skis I was all like "yeah, I have tons of ski experience and I like to ski the blues." And the sales guy I'm sure was like "doof."

Wiriehorn is one of the smallish local places the Swiss tend to cut their teeth on as far as skiing goes. Very few runs, locals, mostly medium difficulty. Skiers of all ages. There were young kids who could ski circles around me. Long runs, not too hard, but icy at times. Which, as a Minnesotan, I'm used to.

On the down side, only a single chair lift. The rest ... T-bars. This is hard core skiing. Sit down on the way up? Puh. Only for wimps. Took me a while to get used to. My. Legs. Are. Tired.