Bakersfield Blonde

A Californian living in Switzerland

Sur la piste: Skiing the French Alps

February 17, 2016.Reading time 3 minutes.

We should really go somewhere new. We keep meaning to make plans. To explore new territory. To branch out. But we can’t seem to stay away from Chamonix-Mont Blanc. The obsession began Christmas 2014. Before Chamonix I had never skied on a mountain that required a practically vertical gondola to get there. (Every place I had skied […]

2015 Travel moment: Skiing Gstaad

December 17, 2015.Reading time 1 minute.

Early one morning last winter we took the train to Gstaad. It was cold and dark. The train was quiet, but full. It would be a three-hour ride and I was lugging 10 pounds of ski equipment. I wasn’t excited. I was cranky. But as the train chugged higher into the mountains, the […]