The forecast was for no tramuntana, but west wind instead. The same cold front that brought all the snow to the UK was due here this evening and there was a weather warning for snow and cold weather. Geoff, who admittedly isn’t a weather guru, assured me that it would be flyable. He had it on good authority from WeatherOnline. I wasn’t convinced, but we had a bet on, so went out to see if we could get a fifth day of excellent conditions at Santa Brigida.

With clear blue skies and little wind here, I was actually more optimistic than my forecasting led me to believe, but spotting the duvet effect at Puig Sacalm gave us our first doubts. It was SE at Les Planes de Hostoles, so we got all optimistic again, but at Santa Brigida the front had come in and it was cloudy and howling from the west.

We did the shopping for tomorrow night’s annual Christmas soiree and then elved ourselves for Christmas. We don’t send cards, so here goes…

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