Zermatt Skiing

       

           Last week I went to Zermatt, it was a three hour train ride from Zurich.  When we arrived everyone was walking around.  It was a very warm day and we could see the Matterhorn and the skiing lifts very clearly.  We were all very tired so we went strait to our hotel.  In our room we had a perfect view of the Matterhorn from our balcony.  This picture is taken at sunrise from our balcony the day we went skiing.  In the morning the snow was very icy, we got on the 8:30 train up the mountain.  We got out at Gornergratt it was the end of the train line.  From there we skied a couple of kilometers to a gondola and then transfered to two other gondolas and then to a cablecar/tram to the Matterhorn Glacier paradise stop.  That was the highest we went that day at 3883 meters, from there we skied down on a glacier to Plateau Rosa Testa Grigia at 3480 meters.  That is when we crossed the border to Italy.  In Italy we mainly stayed on the same three lifts. I went off a jump and got 1 meter of air and landed.  We stayed there for a while then at three oclock we got on a lift with customs back to Switzerland.  The snow was getting slushy so we skied back to our hotel and returned our skiis.  The skiing was extremely fun and we all got very sunburnt and tan.