It seems such a long time since my last report at the end of the snow season. It has been a long and at times very hot summer - even here up in Zao. But it has been cooling down in September and the last week or so at times borderline cold in the evening and early morning for some. Feels great, I think!

There's already some autumn-like colours appearing on the mountain here and in the coming weeks it should be looking beautiful.

Come November we will be thinking about snow and I'll be here with more regular reports when we get closer to that.