Never going skiing in March/April ever again.

Tony_H wrote:






Tropicana, I feel your pain. Yes, its been a fairly crappy year for snow generally in Europe, but as people have pointed out, its better to either choose somewhere higher (St Moritz in Jan at 1900m in resort was fantastic this year) or leave it late to see where snow is falling. I appreciate your situation re accommodation.

However, just to get some perspective on what you said about not going late season ever again, these 2 photos were taken last EASTER. Ok, we got lucky in as much as our resort (Serre Che) got a massive dump the 2nd night we were there, but it does go to show that you often get late season snowfall anywhere, and whilst this year has been a bit pooh, I do not think its fair to say that this is a trend for late season generally.

Look closely at the photos and you can see just how amazing the snow was. It dumped about 2 feet overnight and some of the morning, and the pistes were all covered in ankle deep powder.

OMG Tony I feel your pain, this looks really crap...... :roll: :D

wow fab snow you had late Easter...lucky you. It looks fantastic...wish we had had so much last week.!
Smashing photos you took.
Tell me, . . .how do you put photos on here ???

This season hasn't been good for snow. Usually March skiing is very good. The problem is not that the temperatures are unusually warm, the problem is that the base isn't thick enough. It wasn't topping up during cold months. In early February I saw enough bare patches for April. That's why conditions are deteriorating so rapidly and spring skiing is not much fun - my friend had a concussion on Saturday after he caught an edge on a rock, which was right under the slush. Some snow is expected this week and typically it would have been great news, but I doubt that it will make significant difference this time as the base is almost gone in many places. But it's not a typical situation. And even now some relatively good skiing is still can be found. For about 2-3 hours a day until it gets too slushy and/or boring. And who wants to ski for hours in this glorious sunshine, when people in the village are wearing shorts and flip-flops, anyway?:) It's fantastic to be able to ski in the morning and have a BBQ on a terrase in the afternoon. This is what April skiing is about, at least this year.