The Friday Photo: Our Own Private… Bansko
One of the things I love about skiing is when you get the mountain to yourself. Yesterday, we worked our way through a couple of feet of fresh snow down this deserted route in Bansko, Bulgaria, skis hissing on powder and the trees dense with silence. We haven’t been here long enough and it’s already time to leave.
What a great time you must have had – such a pretty shot too!
~Becca
Thanks, Becca. It’s a very nice resort, and not one that I knew about until I started researching Bulgaria. 10 years ago there was one (free) chairlift, and nothing else. Now it’s a full-blown ski town, with 15 lifts and hosting Ski World Cups.
This is just beautiful. I’ve never skied anywhere in Europe–I stick to California and Colorado for proximity–but I’ve heard that one of the big selling points for many of the resorts over there is how open and empty they are.
I haven’t skied enough of Europe to comment authoritatively, but it’s certainly been the case everywhere we’ve skied in Europe (always outside of peak holiday times) that you can be the only people on a stretch of piste (excluding weekends). I think in Bansko it helps that some of the connecting paths aren’t signed, and barely marked on the maps…
You’re in Bulgaria now?! Awesome for you! Gorgeous and exciting.
Yes! We came for the skiing, and I’m actually rather enjoying discovering this bit of Europe.
Beautiful photo! Snow is such a messy nuisance in the city that I forget sometimes just how beautiful it can be.
Thanks, Lisa. We have been up to our eyeballs in the wonderful stuff lately.
Sounds like a fun day. I love being places completely alone. Looks cold though.
It’s actually been, for the Balkans in January, relatively balmy, only a couple of degrees below zero (Celsius/Centigrade). Today’s chillier though, I’d say pushing negative ten. But we have all the layers from China, so we’re actually fine with it.
gorgeous!! that white path just beckons.