Lots of very deep snow

Even with only a handful of lifts open, St. Anton delivers the goods!

It was a mission to get there this morning, as an accident on the main road caused us a detour through some snowy villages, but

St. Anton was well worth coming to, even though there were only a handful of lifts open.

The quality of the powder snow that has been falling is PhenOMenal!!

In town can be found the fluffiest swooshiest champagne crystals ever!

Up on the mountain it was a bit more wind blown and supportive under the skis.

No mountain photos, as it was bitterly cold (in which the phones die) and snowing continuously.

Yesterday's powder pockets in the forest were up to our knees, and we thought that was deep; some of today's turns took us waist-deep in snow and felt absolutely bottomless!

I felt this morning like I was just about on the edge of getting the hang of this powder skiing malarkey, and for Dan's technique too, something has suddenly clicked today. From skiing side to side across the piste, he's found the confidence to point his body down the mountain and let the powder help him control his turns.

Still snowing, it got better and better throughout the day, and by the time we got back to the car it had this much snow on it:

So we cleared the snow off,  put the snow socks on and braved the snowy roads back to Feldkirch. 

At 30 mph this took rather a long time, and there was a fair bit of slipping and sliding around, notably when the lorry in front of us had to slow down suddenly (due to a police block on the other side of the road) and his trailer overtook him and swung into the crash barrier. Not a full-on jacknife, but the nearest I've seen.

Tomorrow might warrant a closer journey, perhaps to the other side of Montafon, so as not to get stuck, as the snow is still falling!