Ski season is open!
In the Swiss Alps, the snow has been falling steadily over the last weeks and it looks like a very promising before-Christmas start to the season, as these two 3-day old live photos from Verbier clearly...

It must have been one of my shortest seasons. While in the beginning Europe showed great promise with cold cold weather and snow in October and November, there was hardly any snow between Christmas and the middle of February. Even then when it did snow it was really too warm...

It was fantastic to see some snow and sparkles in the Swiss Alps after a celebratory Christmas in Denmark – contrary to popular belief, it is not complete darkness throughout winter there but you do get less than 7 hours from sunrise to sunset around winter solstice. While Morten was...