Snow in the Alps

[R TOY]

Just seen latest snow reports and its dumping in France right now! Bloody superb cause we're off to the 3 Vallees on Mon. 1080's waxed up n ready to go. Anyone else?

[workshy fop]

Off to Tignes in two weeks time. Good to hear it's coming down.

Any links for snow reports?

[tallbloke]

Say hi to Les Dents du Midi for me. I'd love to visit Chamonix again.

[jessica]

keep it going my son is off to Italy next week...............
on the pist or was it the piss.....................?

[R TOY]

workshy fop said:

Off to Tignes in two weeks time. Good to hear it's coming down. Any links for snow reports?

My lad clicked onto tne LaTania snowreport and its bang upto date(most are 1or2 days behind) Try the Tignes or Val official site. Hope snow is through the whole region.

[cowhead]

workshy fop said:

Off to Tignes in two weeks time. Good to hear it's coming down. Any links for snow reports?

Just came back from Val D'isere two weeks ago, conditions were brilliant back then - but has been getting very icy and rocks are appearing now.

The best bet for snow reports is www.valdinet.com - it's written by an english guy living out there and it's really quite accurate. Other than that try www.snow-forecast.com

Beware Val D and Tignes are mentally expensive - you're talking 8 Euro's a pint!

Enjoy - i'm very very jealous!

[KITT]

tallbloke said:

I'd love to visit Chamonix again.

I'm off there a week today (unless my bloody leg doesn't get better )

[JMGS4]

Pouring with rain now and temperatures up to 8°C (and higher in the next few days), so don't think you'll get much snow... all is melting slush here!!! Check before you travel, otherwise skiing on slush is not nice.....

[cowhead]

Dump Alert!!

Valdinet Dump Alert said:

A new dump for a new year! Overnight, starting late yesterday evening, we have had 20cm of perfect snow fall in the town centre which is going to translate into who knows how much up top where it will have chucked it down – 30-40cm at least. This latest fall was getting needed - although conditions have been skiable the pistes were getting hard-packed to say the least. There has been so much snow that the lifts have not opened first thing whilst snow clearing and avalanche blasting have gone on. Still that will all have changed in the next few hours - and in the next few days the New Year's crowds will have dispersed leaving plenty of wide open fun to be had! Have a good 2006 !!

Gits! If it snows in Val D'isere then it sure as buggery has snowed in Tignes.

[anonymous-user]

R TOY said:

Just seen latest snow reports and its dumping in France right now! Bloody superb cause we're off to the 3 Vallees on Mon. 1080's waxed up n ready to go. Anyone else?

Give my love to Courcheval 1850. Bust my leg there last time I went there and am now banned by the Mrs.

[tuffer]

Just back from St Anton and they had heaps of the stuff, great resort and some fantastic off-piste.

[R TOY]

unrepentant said:

Give my love to Courcheval 1850. Bust my leg there last time I went there and am now banned by the Mrs.

Dont tell me things like that, I've found that i don't bounce as well as i get older. Seriously tho what a nightmare, breaking your leg and being banned! Still i reckon if you reach a certain age without some injuries you've been bloody lucky or lived a boring life. Show your scars with pride,(and invent some farfetched stories to go with them )
I will indeed give your love to Courcheval. Now which particular off piste double black run was it again??

[anonymous-user]

R TOY said:

unrepentant said: Give my love to Courcheval 1850. Bust my leg there last time I went there and am now banned by the Mrs. Dont tell me things like that, I've found that i don't bounce as well as i get older. Seriously tho what a nightmare, breaking your leg and being banned! Still i reckon if you reach a certain age without some injuries you've been bloody lucky or lived a boring life. Show your scars with pride,(and invent some farfetched stories to go with them ) I will indeed give your love to Courcheval. Now which particular off piste double black run was it again??

Err......... I actually did it pissing about on a blue run. . They had to send the guys up the mountain with the stretcher on a sledge to get me.

It was on the annual company ski trip for a plc that I was a director of at the time. The previous year another director dislocated his shoulder and two years later the Chairman lost an eye in a snowmobile crash and was so badly hurt he was off work for a year.

(All accidents at Courcheval or Meribel).

I don't think they have the ski trips any more.

[Imadreamer]

I've just got back from Chamonix and the snow for the last week was perfect (very cold though with an average of about -10 every day). It did snow all last night but when we left early this morning, the temperature was up above freezing and it was chucking it down with rain. Roads were atrocious though and there was a very nasty pile up on the A40 southbound (somewhere south of Dijon) in the fog.

[penryar]

I'll be loading the car up with skiing gear, dogs and wife on the 14th and heading off down to La Mongie in the Pyrenees for a week. Skiing isn't as good as in the Alps, but its only 4 hrs drive away, has over 120km of pistes and there are generally never any queues for the lifts, so it would be rude no to, wouldn't it.

[bad_roo]

Imadreamer said:

I've just got back from Chamonix and the snow for the last week was perfect (very cold though with an average of about -10 every day). It did snow all last night but when we left early this morning, the temperature was up above freezing and it was chucking it down with rain. Roads were atrocious though and there was a very nasty pile up on the A40 southbound (somewhere south of Dijon) in the fog.

I was going the other way. Saw a silver car that was just wrecked. It looked as if it had gone under a lorry. Really sobering stuff.

Snow was lousy in Trois Vallees but it threw it down just as we were leaving. Went for a pizza in Aosta and got through the Mont Blanc tunnel to find hammering dumpage, meaning a 140 mile slip and slide back to the Tarentaise via Annecy. Mrs Roo not stoked.