went out for a weekened trip to st. moritz, about 4 hours by train..stayed at the top of the mountain at 3000m so got 2 full days of skiing in. some crusty pow but there was a few decent off piste bowls. also nobody goes off piste, it's ridiculous. snow everywhere, and they will not go on it. hit a 10 k run out to the next little village which was about half moguls but was really fun. chilled out and had some beers outdoors, good times. ski progression is going at about an exponential rate right now, it is great.
it was a weird combination area in switzerland where it was half german half italian, and st. mo's is the engadin valley in the canton of grauebunden where the 20 000 people or whatever that still speak romansch are from. pretty cool i thought. anyhow it was beautiful weather both days with a pretty good lift system, not a ton of terrain but definitely enough to be happy with. all in all a great weekend. managed also to not buy any food there and live on a peasant diet of bread cheese wine and cured meats. reverted back to the 12th century for a bit there.
it's been snowing a ton and it's still cold out, slush everywhere. still people using umbrellas in the snow, so weird. a guy from work, frank, had his 40th birthday and had a party at his house, where we proceeded to do this thing called the feuerzangenbowle, basically a sugar cone, suspended over a pot of hot wine, drenched in overproof rum and lit on fire and dripped into the wine. pretty tasty, but so much alcohol, it's apparently a german student tradition at the universities and is based on a movie of the same name, pretty cool.
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