YOLO Journal Issue 12 - Flipbook - Page 70
We took daily walks along the
mountain paths, as ski season had
yet to begin. In the hotel’s wellness
area, an indoor-outdoor pool lets you
submerge in water while surrounded
by snow. Inside, double lounge beds
built into nooks are so well padded that
the acoustics make you nod off in an
instant. The sauna and steam rooms are
“without textile”—bathing suits must
be left at the door. I tried the Wasser
Ritual, in which a staffer, naked but for a
towel, places balls of snow infused with
essential oils on hot coals while walking
around the sauna, fanning you. The mix
of heat, steam, and oils of spruce, larch
and Swiss stone pine made inhaling
especially intense.
The food is made from seasonal,
local ingredients—from the juice room,
with its crates of celery, cucumber,
fennel, carrot and crisp apples, to the
two dinner menus, one of them vegetarian/vegan. We took our meals in a
restaurant, which is built like an amphitheater. The acoustics provided near
silence as we looked out through the
picture windows framing that fantastic
view of the massifs.
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