Samoens

Anyone been out to Samoens recently? Going on Feb 19th and there does not seem to be any snow forecast soon!! )

We were in Morillon the middle of January the first part of the week the weather was +10 then turned colder which allowed the snow cannons to operate which in turn improved the piste conditions, they have maintained the pistes extremely well but the best skiing was in flaine.

Try this link for the piste information for Samoens.

http://www.grand-massif.com/hiver/meteoconditions.php?lang=en&station=samoens&gallery_id=

It gives an indication of which pistes are open and closed with other links to the surrounding areas. Most pistes are still open even with the lack of snow falling from the skies. The piste groomers must be doing an incredible job.

I hope my mums "observation on the weather patterns" comes true. She says that if the USA gets extreme weather then we seem to get some of the tail end about 2 weeks later. Yesterday the east coast of the US received up to half a metre of snow in one day.
Fingers crossed for a big snow fall in the next two weeks.

Then again my mum is old and she is a wife. :lol:

Colin and Ian - thanks so much. We are going by car so might drive to Morillon each day (only a few mins as I recall).Hope your Mum is right Colin and less of the 'Mum and Wife' bit - our spider senses are usually spot on!!

Was in Flaine last week. A few closed runs, but you could ski on good snow down to Morrillon 1100, but couldn't get down to Les Carroz. It was very cold and the snow canons were on overtime.

Looks like a warmish week ahead which will be very bad news as bare patches were appearing at the top of the Grand Vans link on our last day.

Keep doing the snow dance!

as you are going by car you are not that far, about half an hour, to Les Gets and Pras de Lys ...I was there last year and skied all three...there seems to be a decent amount of snow in both

Re the last reply don't go to Les Gets this year unless they have a major dump of snow. We were there early Jan when rain and warm weather played havoc and there has been no significant snow since. Normally the pisteurs are very good there but nature has dealt them a pretty bad hand. While the official snow depth is 60cm or so, this is in some random off-slope location. On the well-used tracks you have to figure on considerably less. And I see from the J2 snow forecasts it's freeze-thaw here and across the northern French alps unless you go really high...

On another matter our snow comes from air masses pushing in from the north and northeast, not from New York.

Thanks for all the info everybody. I had already read that there were problems in Les Gets. Lets hope these air masses get their act together in the next few weeks!!