Yesterday my alarm was set for 6:45 am, I crawled out of bed at 7. Certainly haven’t seen those hours of the morning in a while.

My reason for such an early start was to catch the first bus over to lech so I could meet friends in Warth Schrocken from the school trip I learnt to ski with.

I made it to Oberlech for about 8:20 and took the gondola up but then had to wait quater of an hour for the Petersboden chair to open. Once up it was a short cruise down a blue run before strapping my skis to my back and starting the hike over to Warth. The walk was easy than I expected and I got a great view along then way.

I made it to the Sonnenjet-Auenfeld lift on the far side of the resort for about 9:30, after a chat with the guy at the lift and a quick blast down black 1 I got my lift pass for the day. Back up the top I skied down to Warth to meet up with everyone.

Having skied this resort as a novice on a school trip 3 years ago it was strange skiing runs I remembered to be a lot steeper and longer.

At the bottom of the piste the first thing I noticed was the coach the school always uses for the ski trip. I then bumped into the ski trip regulars and my old teachers from school, plus a couple of friends who still attend sixth form there. It was great catching up with them all again and spending the day ripping round the resort.

Around 2:45 I started heading back, not realising the distance I covered skiing to Warth it hit me how much uphill there was when I had to hike back up.

After a short stop for a well earned mars bar and some water where it started to flatten off I made it back to the Weibermahd lift in lech for 3.30. I had a gentle cruise, as my legs couldn’t handle anything else, down to Lech village with plenty of time to spare before the 4:10 bus back.

Back in St Christoph I just had time to ice my leg, have a shower and my evening meal before starting work at 6. I had an amazing day but by the time I had finished work I was absolutely exhausted. Safe to say I slept extremely well.