Powder in Cervinia

Mount Cervinia, as it's known on the Italian side (the Matterhorn, as it's known to others), has a fantastic ski area all around it. We spent our first ski weekend up there and it might just be down hill from here because it was hard to beat. Two feet of new snow on Friday and Saturday, cloudless skies on Sunday and Monday, and a deeper base than they've had in 25 years. Plus the fact that the Italians just ski the groomers for only a few hours starting around 11:30, with lunch and multiple cappuccino breaks included in that time frame, so the lift lines are non-existent. All the more powder for us!

Jules off piste - we managed to find plenty of fresh stuff and make new tracks most of Sunday...

Lila and Claire also enjoyed lots of powder runs - although we lost one of Claire's skis which took hours to find deep in the snow, far from where we thought it would be.

Out on the town the first night...

The girlies went sledding one night apres-ski with the friends we were up there with.

And Lila got a special private lesson with an instructor who was on the Italian ski team.

Both girls loved trying some off-piste powder skiing. It was hard to be discouraged when you had the spectacular Matterhorn in full view all the time.