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'Epic' snow

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:00:35 GMT

After our early season panic, parts of Europe now have 'more than half of last year's snow' already!

http://www.valdinet.com/

Well, Val D'isere has anyway.

Yay for late snow!

Re:'Epic' snow

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:10:44 GMT

Which is lovely !
I think the "half of all last years snow" is very telling as this amount really sets up the base for the whole season.
Hope there is still planty to come through into January as lower resorts still need to get the base down on the resort level runs.

But ....
When is it too much and when should I be choreographing a no-snow dance??
:mrgreen:

Mind you that guy presenting needs some lessons! Hope he gets better as the season goes on. The girl last year was great for the weekly snow reports. A good up-beat voice even when the snow wasn't the best.

Re:'Epic' snow

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:05:13 GMT

If they have so much on the uppers, can they not shift excess to the lowers? I would think the temps are below freezing now so shouldn't it in theory stay?

Re:'Epic' snow

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:15:38 GMT

It is still raining down at resorts c 1200/1400m although the temp is now dropping significantly at lower levels.
A few days snow, a few days low temps and snow cannons and resort runs down to these levels will be up and running.

Re:'Epic' snow

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:17:13 GMT

Keep dancing! :lol:

Re:'Epic' snow

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:06:22 GMT

kateshaw wrote:Keep dancing! :lol:

I think there's a TV show in that.

Just realised, 8 posts short of 1000 :shock:

Re:'Epic' snow

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:08:25 GMT

NellyPS wrote:

Just realised, 8 posts short of 1000 :shock:

Careful you'll use up your free limit and have to start paying soon :cry:

'Epic' snow

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:28:50 GMT

NellyPS wrote:After our early season panic, parts of Europe now have 'more than half of last year's snow' already!

http://www.valdinet.com/

Well, Val D'isere has anyway.

Yay for late snow!

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :lol: :lol: :lol: 8) :oops:

Re:'Epic' snow

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:04:54 GMT

Just had another look, the 2nd camera shows the village slopes, look at how much snow is on the chairs! Another 60cm today.

Re:'Epic' snow

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:06:59 GMT

On this one http://www.valdisere.com/gb/val_d_isere/webcam/webcams.php

Re:'Epic' snow

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:16:56 GMT

The last couple of days have been a right off as high winds have closed most of the lifts.
Anyone going out this weekend is in for a special trip once the weather clears on Monday.

Re:'Epic' snow

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:18:41 GMT

But there this week you would have crap last couple of days :(

Re:'Epic' snow

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 07:39:50 GMT

Iceman wrote:But there this week you would have crap last couple of days :(

It's December, you don't book a holiday this month thinking you'll get 6 days of sun, because it doesn't happen.

We had a great week, superb company and some great powder. But also had bad viz for half of it and winds closed lifts. You have to take the rough with the smooth. At the price I paid I'm not complaining!

Re:'Epic' snow

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 08:44:53 GMT

Avalanche risks are at 5 at the min so I would say your in for a great time just yet. There might be a lot of powder but that's no good if you have any chance of it slipping beneath you. val Thoren are reporting this....

VERY HIGH RISKS Scale 5
The snow is generally unstable, even on gentle slopes, many spontaneous avalanches are likely to occur

Re:'Epic' snow

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 08:45:23 GMT

Closed lifts and limited skiing are bad whatever the time of year....

Re:'Epic' snow

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:18:20 GMT

crispyapplepie wrote:Avalanche risks are at 5 at the min so I would say your in for a great time just yet. There might be a lot of powder but that's no good if you have any chance of it slipping beneath you. val Thoren are reporting this....

VERY HIGH RISKS Scale 5
The snow is generally unstable, even on gentle slopes, many spontaneous avalanches are likely to occur

There is waist high powder on most pistes at the moment, no need to go off piste to enjoy it.

Re:'Epic' snow

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:35:08 GMT

Smashtastic........

I knew my sources for all things snowy would be spot on, just arrived back from BsM and the snow has been astonishing, in fact I cannot think of a start to the season like this for donkey's years.

Came back with BensBus today ,they picked me up at BsM Gare Routiere, but were about 40 minutes late due to the road down from Val & Tignes being completely blocked at 5am this morning with quite a lot of avalanche debris from what the rep said.

Down in BsM the local plough chap's did a blinding job , but I imagine the chaps up the valley had their work cut out for them over the last few days....superstars the lot of them.

Stay safe and well when you go next people, but more importantly have a great time.

jon.

Re:'Epic' snow

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:28:34 GMT

Apparently this is the best snow at this time of year seen in a generation. So I guess that might only be 20 years.

Re:'Epic' snow

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:29:06 GMT

For your generation it is Nelly ;)

Congrats on 1,000 posts :)

Re:'Epic' snow

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:23:49 GMT

Pre xmas 1986 was pretty epic snow.
Can't compare directly with this year. It certainly started earlier. Skiing back to resort in Tignes in November and the whole resort was snow covered early December.
The snow was pretty much down to Bourg st Maurice by about 2nd week December and Les Arcs was fully open from it's first w/end which would have been about 15th dec. ish, about, approximately!
Year before early season was c***, year after was c***.

Re:'Epic' snow

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:50:26 GMT

Iceman wrote:For your generation it is Nelly ;)

Congrats on 1,000 posts :)

Ooo yay! I'd forgotten about that. Happy 1000 posts to me.

Re:'Epic' snow

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:11:39 GMT

Some places in Valais have up to twice as much snow than is usual at this time of year
http://www.slf.ch/lawineninfo/schneeinfo/hsm/gross/index_EN

If it snows any more at Lauchernalp they won't be able to find the measuring stick!

Re:'Epic' snow

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:17:32 GMT

Snowing hard again at 1570m in Grimentz :D