The snow is finally there in the Alps

Post by **fivat** » Saturday 9 December 2006, 9:41

Saturday 9th December, 9:15 am.

Last night it has finally snowed a lot in the Alps. Yahooo!

Look at this picture taken from the Webcam in Zinal village:

A friend of mine, in Verbier, tells me by SMS that there is 60cm of fresh snow at 2700m!

Prepare you boards, most of the resorts open on 16th December!

Patrice Fivat

Post by **rilliet** » Sunday 10 December 2006, 10:05

And on the pistes on Sunday 10.12.2006 10h.00 am

Post by **tigger** » Sunday 10 December 2006, 13:00

what a relief, 60cm sounds like a solid base for the season, everything is gonna be allright

Post by **erik** » Sunday 10 December 2006, 20:42

Looking very good for the ECS!
Although, snow has to stay there for another 2 months... fingers crossed!

Does anyone know the snowconditions in les 2 alps?

Post by **tufty** » Friday 15 December 2006, 15:30

erik wrote:Looking very good for the ECS!
Although, snow has to stay there for another 2 months... fingers crossed!

Does anyone know the snowconditions in les 2 alps?

http://www.skifrance.fr/index.cfm?fusea ... &langue=fr

Simon

Post by **nils** » Friday 15 December 2006, 20:08

was there last sunday ( les deux alpes):
40cm of fresh powder then good base on most piste... its not possible to reach the lower part by ski, but otherwise all the 2/3ds of the top is fine and very carvable....Downside is grooming sucks compare to aspen's.. i guess its not much we can do about it thu..

N

Post by **Hans** » Saturday 16 December 2006, 0:16

Don't know what all the fuss is about overhere in Europe. People (commerce) are complaining that there is no snow, but if my memory isn't lost, I can remember several seasons that we had no snow with Christmas. Only the temperature is higher like never before now, that's the only difference. But it's all about commerce and money these days. Commerce is making us crazy. We are just spoiled the last years with snow early November!

Post by **tufty** » Sunday 17 December 2006, 18:29

Yeah, I was just looking back at the megeve snowfall figures: Last time we had a winter with no snow in October and November, we only had 20cm in December, but then 5.7m combined January-March...

I've seen several years where we opened with no snow at base, the problem this year is that without cannons, conditions are currently barely skiable at 2000m, and that's without yesterday's rain. Not looking like a good Christma / New Year for the smaller resorts unless it starts snowing pretty damn soon.

Simon

Post by **harald** » Monday 18 December 2006, 9:27

Hi,
If your consider Norway to be part of Europe there are good conditions in many of the mountain ski resorts in Southern Norway such as Hemsedal, Kvitfjell (World Cup arena), Trysil, Geilo, Röldal (powder and off-piste).

Post by **patmoore** » Wednesday 3 January 2007, 5:05

It's grim over on our side of the pond. Temperatures are near all time highs and the only precipitation we get is rain. We've only had one minor snowfall in Vermont all season and it's frequently too warm to make snow.

I'll be in Davos February 10-17. I understand conditions in Switzerland aren't particularly good either. I sure hope winter puts in an appearance soon!

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