Val d'Isere snow report 21 Dec 15

Quick report for you all. We are two skiing days into our VDI holiday. lovely sunny day yesterday whereas pretty cloudy today. Temperatures are very warm. At village level (1850m) it was -5 1st thing on Sunday rising to + 5 by early afternoon. We had light precipitation today with the freezing at about 2200m. Therefore raining in town but snow higher up. Probably only a couple of cms though. A decent chunk of Espace Killy is open. Even the closed pistes are ok in certain circumstances, ie Cascade. Some of the runs are looking patchy with tufts of grass poking through. Also quite a few stones so I imagine the hired skis are going to take a battering. It was much busier today especially on the Henri blue down into Tignes Val Claret and i fear that the slopes will be in a poorer state by the end of the week.

Still, it's looking like sun for the rest of the week which will be very pleasant. it will simply be a case of choosing the right areas of the resort. Le Fornet will be a good choice. the infamous verte run probably not, judging by the state of it today!

will try to upload some photos although i'm stuggling to transfer between my iphone and ipad.

just been out for beaucoup de croissant and it's an icy diaster zone in the village. -3 this morning but blue skies. Will post photos later now that the teenagers are on the case

bedrock barney wrote:just been out for beaucoup de croissant

:mrgreen:

bedrock barney wrote:it's an icy diaster zone in the village.

...hope you've got enough croissant to last until help arrives... :lol:

Enjoy.

I'm heading to Tignes on Saturday 26th December. I've read reports of 70cm of snow on the upper slopes and 30cm in the village. I'm no expert but this sounds pretty decent especially given the weather. Put it this way, I went to Soll in Austria this time last year and we didn't have half of that!

I'd be interested if you could keep us updated! Also, can you confirm if they're using snow machines?

jbrayden wrote:I'm heading to Tignes on Saturday 26th December.

Which village are you going to be based in?
And to keep you happy get addicted to watching........
http://tignes.roundshot.com/lac/

:)
OA

Wow! That looks so good! I'm based in Le Lac. Any idea of the snow-making arrangements?Cheers!

jbrayden wrote:Wow! That looks so good! I'm based in Le Lac. Any idea of the snow-making arrangements?Cheers!

If you look at the webcams around dusk you will often see the cannons going. You won't have a lack of piste skiing but off-piste is unlikely.
Enjoy - jealous :)

hi peeps. I don't think there is much snow making going on. It's simply too warm. the temperatures are dropping now (6pm french time) but they are still above freezing. It was at least 5 degrees at the top of Solaise (2500m) this afternoon.

It was hugely busy in Tignes yesterday so we stayed in Val today above Solaise and in and around the glacier. In fact we spent most of the afternoon between 2700m and 3200m. it was as warm as a spring day which was extremely pleasant. Pistes in great condition high up, not so good lower. More and more stones/rocks are appearing.