J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Real Ale Madrid

8) Hi I,ve been in Saux three days. Well its not bad but could be better! Weather is sun and clear blue skies so fabulous but no snow is forcast for the next few days. Conditions are iffy but not terrible. High up its still good with some great skiing but there are lots of hard packed and worn areas lower down and ice as well. There are signs around saying ,ski with caution, hard packed snow, you can say that again. Several pistes are closed, Sestrere is very hard packed. If you are booked for next week you might be okay but if you are booked for 2 weeks time I would change to somewhere else, I did this once when I was booked in Morzine and it was green so I changed to Val Thorens best thing I ever did. Pity cos I don,t want to slag off the area, the people are fantastic, food and drink are excellent and very reasonable especially Paddy McGinty.s bar, (you can still ski down to near there, if it would just do a good dump of snow in the next week it would be fantastic.

I'm off there on friday, anybody replying as to the conditions, last time I went to Saux when it was described as 'hard packed' translate to boiler plate ice, very dangerous, half the lifts running and brown pistes after 2pm. Any info ta