IMAGE taken mid-February 2007 of a “traditional Swiss mountainside village” at ~ 1,300 meters.

I better get my skis on and do some skiing before it is a sport of past tense. From the New York Times:

As global warming brings less snow, lower-altitude stations rely more on costly snow machines.

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