We just couldn't wait any longer - so when the pisteurs tested the snow cannons this week and left large spots of snow on an otherwise green mountain, we tramped up to a 10x10m patch with our sledge. The children delighted in the 3 seconds worth of sledging thrill that the patch afforded, and Justine despaired at the hours of washing the huge pile of cow pat, in which the sledge came to an abrupt halt, afforded. Had we waited one more day we would have had a whole mountain's worth of white fluffy stuff.
