How many sleeps to your second encounter???

I am off to Vebier tonight till the end of the month (season), I looked at the temperatures and I doubt there will be any skiing worth having over there unless you are a tourist :) The problem as I said on the other thread is that the base wasn't topping up during cold months so instead of typical spring skiing (which i like)once it warms up conditions are leg-breaking, water mixed with thing layer of slush over bare rock in many places. Last weekend is was OK and we even found some powder, but two weekes ago there were puddles in the middle of some pistes and warm nights returned so I guess it's similar if not worse now. I totalled about 60 days this season so to repeat it next year I should resist temptation/avoid injury and leave verbier slopes for people who were waiting to get there for a year. However I still would like to ski during my break before packing up for the summer and with Grimentz being basically on the other side of the mountain it seems a good destination.

Bandit, I saw your reports and I know it will be skiable there, but is it worth a drive or should I rather go further to Saas-Fee? What is the snow depth? I have two free days of skiing anywhere in Valais and I want to use it. Zermatt is an obvious choice but I quite like skiing in new places and I've never been to Val d'Anniviers. I will also definitely go to Chamonix regardless of the conditions as food alone is well worth the drive. Maybe Grand Montets will still hold:)

verbier_ski_bum, Grimentz is quite busy at the moment, quite a few of the Zinal ski school classes are here, plus the Combe Durand lift and Freeride area is closed in Zinal, so we have the dudes in Onesies riding Benchetlers here too. Oh, and there are some races as well. I've seen queues for lifts :shock:

Definitely spring conditions, boiler plate 1st thing (some folks like it not me-old knees), a narrow window of off piste creaminess, and then porridge by noon! Save your Anniviers trip for next winter, when it dumps big time :D

I was on G-M last on 8/4 and it was 'orrible then...plenty of talk on the net about the lift co. shutting the season early because snowpack is unstable. Expect Astro turf at Lognan :mrgreen: and apparently you can download on Plan Joran chair, if you can't hack the queue for the c/car.

Saas-Fee would be a good bet I reckon, still a B.H weekend though! Have fun wherever you go :D

Thank you! Looks like Saas-Fee/Zermatt it is then. Probably won't go there till Monday anyway, hopefully it will be quiter. Verbier is busy too as many people who booked Easter holidays in lower resorts that had to be closed are being bussed here every day to ski.

As for 8/4 being horrible - i think it was horrible everywhere in the area, I didn't even make it to the lift, turned back to the chalet after 10 meters, kind of felt stupid all geared up when it was 20 degrees at 10 am at 1500m:)