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rayscoops, I'm staying here until mid-April, at the end of the day the glacier stays open until end of April. Most of the current plans are to stay open until end-March, mid-April for all areas. This week looks bad ( 'cos of half-term) , then next 2 weeks should be quiet ( but we need more snow for 'Good' conditions ... Bit Hard at the moment. Easter will also be a 'busy' long weekend but not the weeks around it apparently , so loads of choice .... I think I would be tempted to look at mid-end-March , early-April ..... then I'd get a couple of provisional bookings in hotels for you. ( I'm in Wales 5th April) , and if conditions were 'poor' just go elsewhere from Geneva .... although the Glacier has 25kms plus in its own right so a great fallback.

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Agenterre, sounds a good idea, after doing loads of the mega resorts I really fancy some of the smaller, quieter ones, I had a weekend flying in to Innsbruck recently and went to St Anton on the Saturday and Mutters (Innsbruck) on the Sunday, expecting St Anton to be quiet on a 'change-over' day and Innsbruck to be busy at a local (5 km away) resort on a 'family' Sunday, but it was the other way round, St Anton was so busy you could hardly board and Mutters was quiet until lunch time.

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WOW and POW and VOLKL BRIDGE
Date : March --- up to 23rd March
Weather : Yesterday – Overcast – some sun, some snow showers. Today snowing again!
Snow Coverage ; 100% Coverage – all slopes – all natural
Snow Conditions :Absolutely gorgeous on piste. Soft ..wonderful. Off-piste is magic ( limited stuff for me)
Area Skied : Saanenmoser-Zweisimmen-St Stephan-schonried-Wispile -SaanenGSTAAD SUPER-SKI
Distance Covered : Who cares?
Runs Completed One Excellent run after another
Cost of Living Easter Lunch in Hotel Hornberg

I hadn’t posted for a long time – mainly because I haven’t been here for nearly 4 weeks in total. Mind you a week of that I was skiing in Wengen.

Suffice to say we are currently enjoying some of the best conditions of the season.

The shame being that some areas are beginning to close and all will be shut within 10 days with the exception of the Glacier… and that’s a 20 minute drive away so may be little more from me here.

They say a Picture is worth a 1000 words so I thought I’d just post a few photos from the last few days.

The first was Thursday iirc taken from the house showing that even at 1000m there is no shortage of snow.

Next one is looking over to Schonried.

Fresh tracks on the first day of ‘The Dump’ … unbelievably mine on Eggli!

..but it was just a stunning day !

Eggli over to Schonried..

The next ones ar all this morning taken in the semi-dusk about 0645 after the steps had been cleaned. Towards Rougemont :-

The river with the Eglli slopes in the background

The Chalet with the trees behind :-

and the view over towards Saanen again ..

Suffice to say we seem to have another 15 cms minimum again last night and it’s still snowing!

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Agenterre, those are nice tracks on Eggli

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Agenterre, Wow - what a difference since I drove through only 2 weeks ago! Very Happy

Good tracks, well done.

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Perhaps the best snow ever …but the end is nigh !
Date : March 24th-April 1st
Weather : Variable. It has snowed most days .. temps have been generally low but have now risen
Snow Coverage ; 100% Coverage – all slopes – all natural until March 31st when persistent snow/rain destroyed down to about 1200m
Snow Conditions :How do you describe it – perfect..)
Area Skied : Saanenmoser-Zweisimmen-St Stephan-schonried-Wispile –Saanen/Glacier 3000GSTAAD SUPER-SKI
Distance Covered : Who cares?
Runs Completed One Excellent run after another
Cost of Living Why are liquids so expensive in Swiss?

That simply has to be the best few days skiing ever.

The weather itself has been variable .. as it just seems to have kept snowing for the week. In terms of depth there is definitely more at 1000m than there has been all winter. This isn’t going to last though and rain on Sunday – allied to the temperatures rising will soon destroy what is left at the lowest levels.

Suffice to say we are currently enjoying some of the best conditions of the season.

The shame being that some areas are beginning to close and all will be shut within 10 days with the exception of the Glacier… and that’s a 15 minute drive away so may be little more from me here.

As of today only Schonried/Saanenmoser and the Glacier ( which apart from one 14km Black run is rather boring and flat unless you do serious off-piste) are still open …. A real shame as they could still have every slope open if they wanted such are the snow depths. You do feel on occasion that ‘skiing’ is incidental to this area’s wealth! Oh it's snowing again this morning ! Forecast wrong again !!

The area is really beginning to gear up for the summer. Since the weekend roadworks have sprung up everywhere …. You get the feeling that all the pisteurs have started digging up roads!

We won’t be here much longer at all .. A return to the UK will see to that ..Anyways, some photos from the last 4 days …

Fresh snow in Sannenmoser: -

. Same day :

Missus-A allowing herself to be photographed – maybe because she’s wearing a new jacket for the first time?

From the Hornberg :-

Looking over towards Adelboden and Lenk:

Looking down to Saanen ..why shut these slopes

Walkers on Glacier 3000 yesterday ..

Looking over the Valais ( under the cloud) towards my favourite mountain – the Matterhorn

. I like this one !.. sorry

. The Glacier’s own Clapham junction … in the middle of the photo is a Dad picking up his little child as she wouldn’t move .. poor kid.

…more Matterhorn …

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Agenterre, lovely pictures, the conditions look stunning. Nice jacket too wink

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Agenterre, Stunning photos. Looks superb, and your last week mirrors our experience in resort x. Simply the best weeks weather in the history of skiing. We were both priviliges bunnies.

PS Nice jacket, still don't see what she sees in you wink

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it must be the 10" you were referring to here wink

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Agenterre, great report and fantastic pics - jealous moi ! Going green

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LaserStock, Hi .. welcome to snowHead

, hope you enjoy it here, the more the merrier. A few other instructors around as you may have noticed!

I'll confess to being very confused by the 2 'Haut-Lac' schools. They may be seperate entities but are they not both owned or managed by Jean luc Dubler ? The same confusion exists around Gstaad , especially when it comes to competitions when it is the International school in the same colours with the same instructors?????

No issue that you are qualified .. what level may I ask, if not too rude? I would be very interested in knowing exactly what the qualification and experience standard of those folks escorting those kids around was .. perhaps you would like to advise all parents here for future reference, especially if my assertion that some were unqualified is incorrect. . I ski better than some of them ... and I am a poor skier.

You say yourself that 13 was unusual .. ( but true, as we counted the same group twice over a 20-minute period) and an average of 8 implies higher numbers on occasion.

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Hey, ive been with the Haut-Lac ski centre Im from Ireland. When I visited there was 8 in our group and there is to be 8 this time again. They also mentioned that they had to average at the most 10 per instructor I believe.

Im going to try and get out with some friends for a second time this year, I remember last time at the bottom of the Sannenmosser slope there was a hotel directly opposite the train tracks. This was at the very bottom of the slope not the Hornberg on over at the car-park.

I do believe it was called Horn something too, have you any info about the place im talking about?

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