Post holiday blues

Anybody else suffer from this? Ive just got back from my last trip of the season and feeling distinctly deflated. Ive started looking at destinations for next season already but im not sure its helping :roll:

Might do....I'll let you know on the 13th april :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

always ......

I spend a lot of time in the Austrian Alps and this feels different because it is sunny place and spring in the mountains makes people feel, 'great winter, the skiing mood melts away with the snow, now time for climbing (for the daring), use the lifts for downhill mountain biking (scary), regular mountainbiking for the fit, motorbiking for the mid-life crisis, dinghy sailing and windsurfing on lakes (and from July, some lovely high-altitude lakeside beaches), rollerblading among keen skiiers, and walking in the mountains (sometimes using ski lifts part way), often using nordic poles, for almost everyone. You can visit a mountain hut on a sunny day, miles from any public road, and it is packed with families, pensioners, fit young cyclists, everyone really. Lots of locals, lots of Germans, a handful of Brits too. The one thing you don"t get in the Alps is real sea beaches and yacht sailing. Also sun is not quite as guaranteed as in the Costas, but is often sunny, and always the amazing feeling of the mountains.

My top tip > if you love skiing give your favourite mountain resort a chance in summer.

I always suffer lasts about three weeks and then I start planning the next trips .... Summer in the mountains and next years ski trips ... it soon comes around :thumbup:

Back from Sauze d'Oulx on Sunday, had a fantastic time, now 2 days in - definitely depressed...

Yes Ewan, badly. I do ridiculous things like look at the weather where ive just been or find someone I know who is going after me and pester them to tell me how it is when theyre out there......

I even made a silly video which was to melancholy music and all about "leaving" the ski resort.

Pathetic, i know.

But I find I wipe the season like a slate, and look forward to the summer with some sun in Greece hopefully to come in September, and by that time I should have a pretty good idea where at least 1 ski trip will be for next season. Like Ian said, its great to look forward......

Totally! I've checked the webcams every day since I got back from St Gervais Mont Blanc two weeks ago to see what the conditions are like! Fortunately, I live in Scotland and have been able to get a bit more skiing in since I came back. You should, perhaps, try a weekend up in Scotland, the conditions are great just now. I was in Glenshee this weekend and it was like being back in the Alps, great snow and blue skies.