Even though the slopes are deserted, we decide to head straight off-piste into the backcountry.
After a brave attempt to follow Roland off-piste into a duvet of powder, I sank to my shoulders and had to be dug out.
I was wishing I'd been more careful about insects: my forays off-piste into the jungle had cost me dear in terms of ticks and sand flies.
While they adore his dazzling facility with the violin, they have trains to catch and become restless when he turns up late or when, in a piece they all know back-to-front (such as Vivaldi's Four Seasons), he slips off-piste into an extended, self-indulgent, musical soliloquy.
"You're all good enough so let's try zoom-zoom," said Greg, swinging left, round one of the lodge pole pines that dot and line the pistes, into the boarding park, where he cajoled us stunt virgins into riding a rail, tackling a box and grabbing some air off the daunting jumps, without bashing too much more than our egos.
When a few did go off-piste into the realm of supposed bad taste, it was with conviction and passion.
The platform launched back in June, initially aimed at capitalizing on the U.S. election — with the basic premise of serving people who want to have a real-time online conversation that stays on topic, rather than straying off piste and into cute cat photos.
The interesting thing about the Aussies' drama that it's completely paradoxical to the default vibe of the Australian crew, which is mainly defined by grunting, an inability to express emotions and a liberal use of the word "bro" – which makes it all the more thrilling when people go off piste and into full bitch mode.
Still, we all started at the top of the Kriegerhorn on Sunday morning; 10 minutes later and half a mile down mountain, where the piste breaks off into a fast dip into the Steinmahder bowl, we broke up, having set a rendezvous at 1 o'clock in Oberlech for lunch.
Snowy pistes morph into meadows speckled with wildflowers.
