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Verb-yeah!

Verbier is a very mixed place.  There is great piste skiing & free-riding and access to world class ski touring, but more often its known for it's decadence.  Huge picture perfect chalets with wealthy families and their beaufituful/handsome ski instructors fill the resort. And if not that, the seedier side of ski resorts, the bankers with their paid for woman. . .

 Talking of horrible, those exposed switchbacks half way down from the Chateau were bloody horrible, lucky the rest of the trail was very good fun.

 Well of course, its Swiss Valais, the footpaths are "tip top" and the lift companies are bike friendly.  There were still a lot of pistes open for skiing, but after 11am you can use the lower lift from Le Chable to Verbier to access the snow free trails that lead back into the valley floor.  Time to explore:
Wayne on a loose, steep and exposed chute

Me and Wayne taking in the view of the Grand Combin & other snow capped mountains

Me exiting a corner.

Exposure between horribly tight switchbacks
Lorne letting it go after the horrendousness

Wayne on the edge of a fun meadow

Fun meadow endings.
Still doing this.  Anja on the North East face of Mont Colmet, Aosta, Italy two days after Verbier.
Many thanks to Lorne for some of the cracking photos : http://www.lornecameron.com

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