Christmas?

Well, today seems to be Christmas, and my first white Christmas, but it rather passed me by. The slopes were extremely busy, with people clogging up some of the runs, but we went 'stock-free;' a whole day without stocks. Surprisingly, perhaps, it didn't pose any difficulty, and we were able to keep doing our red runs.
Despite a distinct lack of snow for the past 20 or so days, most of the runs on the mountain are now open. If possible, we will ski all open runs before we leave, as we are both now confident skiing black runs. Yellow has to be the next challenge; runs that are left ungroomed, and are thus not graded for skiing difficulty.
We made some videos by skiing down runs holding the camera, but these are not being uploaded due to lack of editing and file size. There is, however, a new photo in the "On the Slopes" album, a panorama taken on one of the easy slopes on a very clear day (as every day seems to be... what bliss!)
I suspect that our last four days, in which we will revisit all three skiing areas, will show us just how busy the runs around Zermatt can become, but there are so many runs, and they are so wide, that the only real negative of this is that some slopes become rather icy when over-skied. Ah well, we've had a great time so far, and intend to keep on doing so!