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Typical January Snow conditions in Davos?

Wed, 6 Dec 2006 15:54:25 GMT

Hi guys,

Does anyone happen to know what the snow conditions are typically like in Davos around the 1st week in January? Today is the 6th of December and there doesn't seem to be much snow at the minute. Is this usually the case and if so does it generally pick up by the 1st week in January?
Having said that I've never been skiing before and there is nearly another month before i go so am i fretting about nothing?!
I hope so!

Thanks a Lot,

Pat.
Ireland.

Re:Typical January Snow conditions in Davos?

Fri, 8 Dec 2006 14:18:29 GMT

I've been skiing in Davos since 1961 and in those days snow was abundant before Christmas.

The past 10 years have seen the middle of December with little snow, but more often than not it snows between Christmas and New Year.

At present, there is about 50cm on top with another 40-50 cms predicted.

They will attempt to keep some of the runs closed until such time as sufficient snow has fallen and a good base has established, but they will have to open more and more runs in the approach to 22 December when the resort becomes full and skiers denined the opportunity to ski on runs that appear ok causes lots of bad feeling.

I've never known it to to be so bad in January (even the beginning of) that skinig has been limited/restricted to just a few runs.

Davos at 1560 Metres is quite a bit higher than other resorts (such as Klosters) so you can be pretty sure that it'll look nice and white in the vilalge/town itself.

We're off there on 6th Jan.

Try these links to have a good look around the web cams.

http://www.schatzalp.ch/p.cfm?s=29

http://wispo.myswitzerland.com/requests/MySwitzerlandSearchRequest.jsp?lang=en&rKey=430

http://www.j2ski.com/snow_forecast/Switzerland/Davos_snow.html

(Main ski area)

http://www.parsenn.ch/?lang=en

Davos is great!!!!! You'll love it!!!!

Typical January Snow conditions in Davos?

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:42:25 GMT

Thanks a lot!
My faith is renewed, especially after the snow on Saturday!
Have a great time in January!
Pat