'Epic' snow

Smashtastic........

I knew my sources for all things snowy would be spot on, just arrived back from BsM and the snow has been astonishing, in fact I cannot think of a start to the season like this for donkey's years.

Came back with BensBus today ,they picked me up at BsM Gare Routiere, but were about 40 minutes late due to the road down from Val & Tignes being completely blocked at 5am this morning with quite a lot of avalanche debris from what the rep said.

Down in BsM the local plough chap's did a blinding job , but I imagine the chaps up the valley had their work cut out for them over the last few days....superstars the lot of them.

Stay safe and well when you go next people, but more importantly have a great time.

jon.

Apparently this is the best snow at this time of year seen in a generation. So I guess that might only be 20 years.

For your generation it is Nelly ;)

Congrats on 1,000 posts :)

Pre xmas 1986 was pretty epic snow.
Can't compare directly with this year. It certainly started earlier. Skiing back to resort in Tignes in November and the whole resort was snow covered early December.
The snow was pretty much down to Bourg st Maurice by about 2nd week December and Les Arcs was fully open from it's first w/end which would have been about 15th dec. ish, about, approximately!
Year before early season was c***, year after was c***.

Iceman wrote:For your generation it is Nelly ;)

Congrats on 1,000 posts :)

Ooo yay! I'd forgotten about that. Happy 1000 posts to me.

Some places in Valais have up to twice as much snow than is usual at this time of year
http://www.slf.ch/lawineninfo/schneeinfo/hsm/gross/index_EN

If it snows any more at Lauchernalp they won't be able to find the measuring stick!

Snowing hard again at 1570m in Grimentz :D