J2Ski Holiday 2014

Sauze must have opened, because you can see people on skis in the webcam photos :)

http://www.sauzeonline.com/sauze-doulx-webcam/

Here's one today, of Sportinia. I expect it's mostly artificial snow but never mind, at least it's skiable! :)

Nice.

Opened yesterday, nice vid on the Sauze on line blog

elovabloke wrote:Opened yesterday, nice vid on the Sauze on line blog

Thanks :)

http://www.sauzeonline.com/mountain-chatter/weve-just-begun/.

Here's the link to the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-WCn8PzwmY&feature=youtu.be
And this is what they say:

Posted on Saturday, December 13th, 2014 at 4:57 pm.

Today we were finally able to ski in Sauze d'Oulx! You no doubt will be aware that the opening date of the 6th December was postponed due to the conditions, a fait that many ski resorts across Europe shared. Still many remain closed waiting for that first significant snowfall.

Thankfully the Milky Way was blessed with some snow at altitude in November and early December before warm air and rain seemed likely to ruin it all. The past week or so the temperatures have dropped allowing the snow cannons to operate which has made a big difference.

Today limited skiing was available from Sportinia (2100mts) upwards. Only 4 lifts were open and we were restricted to just skiing Sauze but it was great to be finally up there. The pistes that were open were firm without being icy and the coverage was good.

It was a pity that the link to Sestriere wasn't open as I'm sure that there will be enough snow in the bowl and beyond but I guess you have to keep in mind that one of the busiest times of the season is only a few weeks away and with no snow on the horizon the lift company will be doing all they can to preserve what we have.

Love skiing there, just cannot convince HID to go back anymore.

Hope you all have a great holiday.

Packed and ready for the drive to Gatwick :) :)

Enjoy your week everyone (J2Skiers and others), and post a picture or two to make the rest of us jealous...