J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by LOTA

There you are Bandit - actually once our room was sorted, I really liked the hotel!

(Hope this works - not very good with this picture lark!)

Have a look here:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3571137&l=568b1bfeff&id=610069872

And the hill was really busy:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3571137&id=610069872#!/photo.php?pid=3571159&id=610069872&fbid=380736444872

And our hero:


http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3571307&id=610069872

Yes, the point was made forcibly at reception - and we were moved to a much more amenable room.

No chance of skinning at my age Bandit! However, the queues from Monday to Thursday were non-existant and the resort was very quiet in the evenings; no problem getting a table for dinner. And strangely, despite the massive scrum on Friday, we hardly queued anywhere else on the mountain once we had got into Trubsee/Jochpass/Jochstock! But oh for some runs through some trees when the weather is bad.

When the weather is good, Engelberg is one of my faves - when it's bad, it's utterly dismal.

Try a day at Kimberley or Whitefish in Montana for a little bit of variety as Fernie is a small resort and you might find 11 days a little repetitive (I did!)

Hope it stays cold for you as I went in March and the snow was wet and slushy by the end of the trip.

Well, it was an excellent week in Engelberg - except for Thursday afternoon when you could see only a yard in front of your face. Horrible.

Immaculate snow all week, lots of scope for lift-served off-piste but the resort does have two major weaknesses - very little tree-line skiing for bad weather and a horrendous lift bottleneck for access to the mountain (on Friday morning the queue was awful).

Otherwise the efficient Swiss International and SBB travel combination did the trick -skiing early on Monday afternoon after leaving early Monday morning. And skiing yesterday until 2.30pm and back in the UK by 10pm local.

Quirky hotel, but that's another story.....

Splendid!

Ah, the return of legendary Swiss efficiency!

Thank you, Bandit, the equivalent flight landed 13 minutes behind schedule this morning. Not bad for a Saturday - and we have an hour and seven minutes to spare at the airport before the train to Lucerne. If we miss that, it's half and hour to the next one, and so on, so we remain hopeful of Monday lunchtime powder action (if Eric and his Swedish gang haven't used it all up!)

According to snow reports, websites and webcams, it has become very cold again - and snowing today!

Looking forward to the early flight and ski-ing on Monday afternoon! )