The last time I was in snow was in a little town named Simplondorf; mid-May, 1989...

My wife and I jumped on a Postal Bus out of Brig as it travelled in a slow town-to-town motion in the alps picking up and delivering mail. We got to stop in little village food stores enroute and down to the Italian side of the Pass which took about 5 hours; all for just about a few dollars.