Steve Gilson Photography: Hasliberg Switzerland - Avalanches, Powder and Schlittenfahren

This past weekend me and some friends made a quick trip to Hasliberg for some skiing and mountain relaxing. Here are some photos of our trip! Needless to say the skiing and snow conditions were not perfect. There had been 5-6 medium to large recent avalanches the largest ripping about 2.25meters deep, all the way to the ground, and 100meters across. This instability more than likely developed over the previous 2 weeks as temperatures were significantly warmer. Making all the recent snowfall very wet and heavy. These slides were on South and Southwest facing slopes. The other thing that was not so nice was the abundance of fog and Zero visibility. However, we made the best of it! I got some very nice powder turns in with my new friend Nick and his friend Simon. Even though I couldn't see a thing, the turns felt great! Our second day there we decided not to ski, instead we rented some toboggans and raced them down from the upper mountain after a morning of tasty beers and warm drinks. Jupppiiiiiii !!! The upper mountain was quite beautiful on this day with the fog rolling in and out with moments of cozy warm sunshine and views of the mountain.