9 - 15 February 2008

If you turn right at the top of the T-bar on Natrun, you can ski through the Tierpark (animal park), slaloming around deer, fox, wild boar and lynx, (remarkably life-like models, apart from the fact that they all have targets on the side of them, for archery practice). Until recently, they had been left in waiting at the side of the piste until the snow was deep enough to firmly position them in. Some imaginative, free thinking, young types, (word has it they were snow-boarders), carefully arranged them in poses that contravened all laws of nature and, frankly, made this area of the ski piste entirely unsuitable for family skiing. Action was immediately taken to disentangle this orgiastic muddle, and order and respectablility were quickly restored. (photo withheld.)