It's all gone rather quiet......

At the airport after my sneaky trip to Engelberg; excellent four days skiing although weather varied with some rain in town and heavy snow up top and one day of glorious weather, Loads of snow still, and the resort is aiming to operate as many lifts as it can until May 26! The Brunni and Gerschnialp areas are closed now, but they are predominantly beginner areas so the best of the resort was still open.

The biggest plus points were no queues anywhere and largely deserted pistes - a fantastic combination with good snow!

What a great way to end the season!

LOTA wrote:At the airport after my sneaky trip to Engelberg; excellent four days skiing although weather varied with some rain in town and heavy snow up top and one day of glorious weather, Loads of snow still, and the resort is aiming to operate as many lifts as it can until May 26! The Brunni and Gerschnialp areas are closed now, but they are predominantly beginner areas so the best of the resort was still open.

The biggest plus points were no queues anywhere and largely deserted pistes - a fantastic combination with good snow!

What a great way to end the season!

Pleased that you had some great snow :thumbup:

LOTA wrote:At the airport after my sneaky trip to Engelberg; excellent four days skiing although weather varied with some rain in town and heavy snow up top and one day of glorious weather, Loads of snow still, and the resort is aiming to operate as many lifts as it can until May 26! The Brunni and Gerschnialp areas are closed now, but they are predominantly beginner areas so the best of the resort was still open.

The biggest plus points were no queues anywhere and largely deserted pistes - a fantastic combination with good snow!

What a great way to end the season!

Excellent!
Nice to get a sneaky one in, especially when it was so good

Tony_H wrote:

LOTA wrote:At the airport after my sneaky trip to Engelberg; excellent four days skiing although weather varied with some rain in town and heavy snow up top and one day of glorious weather, Loads of snow still, and the resort is aiming to operate as many lifts as it can until May 26! The Brunni and Gerschnialp areas are closed now, but they are predominantly beginner areas so the best of the resort was still open.
The biggest plus points were no queues anywhere and largely deserted pistes - a fantastic combination with good snow!

What a great way to end the season!

Excellent!
Nice to get a sneaky one in, especially when it was so good

I was planning a sneaky to Livigno for a few days last week in April .... but bugger the booking have started to come in. :evil:

Don't knock it. I've got 4 days clear end of April so ill be glad when the bookings do come in.

Tony_H wrote:Don't knock it. I've got 4 days clear end of April so ill be glad when the bookings do come in.

All cash is good cash ...... but it was four days skiing :twisted:

NIIIXSY wrote:Anyone skied les deux alpes in summer ?

There's not a great deal open in L2A in the summer and what is open is not very challenging AFAIR. Try going early in the summer because the best summer run (Signal) will probably still be open. Signal will shut before the end of the summer, I think. Check out the archived snow reports on Easiski's website to get an idea of when Signal shuts. Also, Easiski (Charlotte) may be free for tuition (I hear that she is very good). There are other glaciers open in the summer - Tignes, Stubai glacier, possibly Cervinia, but I get the impression that it's not a skiing holiday (more like a holiday with some skiing, if that makes sense).

I was walking in the Scottish Highlands last week and the lifts were still running at the Glen Coe ski centre ! On tv, the guys from other resorts reckoned they could still be operating right through April ... but that was before the change to the Jet Stream this weekend.