Zermatt and Cervinia 2021-2022

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Just finished second days skiing, it snowed 10-15 cm in town last night and at least that on the slopes. Warm (2) and thick cloud mainly on lower slopes, leading to interesting virtually blind skiing. Made it to Valtournenche and back and up to Bontadini for lunch, 9am till 4pm In interesting conditions. Local forecast tomorrow excellent and have Zum Zee booked for early lunch in Zermatt.Fingers crossed on weather forecast.

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@twoodwar, Thanks for the update. sounds better than i feared given the drought. Out there in 10 days time, so hoping conditions hold up

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Piste conditions when cold excellent. Usual stuff when warmed up in the day. The recent snow have a great covering all over. Couple of scorchio days to come though. Good for us Cool

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Any material difference between the conditions in Zermatt, Cervinia and Valtourneche at the moment? I'm heading over to Cervinia next week, first day Thursday, and wondering whether to get the international pass this time.

Weather seems to be clear with little wind. Given the apparent drought (bar occasional top up), I figure it may be a few days of packing in some piste based mileage.

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@Adam123, pistes are still excellent down to 2000Metres. Softening up during the day. We went over to Zermatt on Wednesday and had lunch at Zum zee. A real slush fest to finish in town but doable. Also we normally stay in Zermatt and ski over to Cervinia early obviously. A lovely run. Coming back mid afternoon, we had some very large moguls from Klein Matterhorn to Testa Grigio. A 3rd year skier with us had great difficulty.

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Hi, I've been ear-wiggling on this thread with interest as I'm due be in Cervinia at Easter so do keep the updates coming.... Cheers

@twoodwar, Sounds like you've had a great time. Where were those moguls? Was it on the slope just after the narrow track from the KM lift exit? I don't ever recall seeing moguls there.

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Last day in Cervinia today, week has been very good, almost all runs have been open. Only issues have been slush in the afternoon coming into Cervinia, resort level the runs are open but it’s getting soft and a bit patchy. From plan maison and above the Sking is very good, the snow has been topped up a few times over the week but our guide was telling us that the base depth is very poor. I suspect they will be relying on snowmaking over the coming weeks. Sunny weather predicted this week. Interested to see how long the season goes on for here and if they get any dumps in the coming weeks.

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The new(-ish) big gondola up to Klein Matterhorn is great - but it does mean that there is now an almost uninterrupted flow of skiers leaving KM. There used to be 'quiet gaps' in between cable-car loads, which gave more nervous skiers a chance to get down that top piste when it was a bit quieter. That and the fact that the long T-bar from Trockner Steg is no longer usually open, means that getting to Italy can be a bit more of a test at times for less confident skiers in a group.

Anyone know if you can get a one way ticket up the Stafel lift (where our ski tour will end)

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What's the mask situation now? I'm heading out on the 2nd and wondering if I need to buy an ffp2 or can I get away with strategic snood use?

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My experience from the rest of the Val d'Aosta (which Cervinia is part of) is that FFP2 masks were sometimes enforced on gondolas / cable cars, but never on chairlifts (with or without bubbles). Similarly, FFP2 mask compliance was close to 100% on gondolas / cable cars, and close to 0% on chairlifts. Green Pass was often enforced on gondolas / cable cars when they started from resort / valley level.

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Heading out on the 3rd. Come on snow!!!

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@LDP816, yes it was where you describe, where the track widens a little but gets appreciably steeper, ( not that steep though). Never seen them before, but as I say we usually are there early on around 10am, not 3pm

On piste still good (off piste non-existent unless you tour). Stay high and north facing as the day goes on. On Wednesday I got back from the 4 valleys (Verbier) and decided to have a few turns in the afternoon. I stayed on Rothorn and mainly used the new Kumme lift on the north side. That is still something of a hidden gem. Great conditions this time of year and never seems to get that busy. Generally you do need to be happy (and able) to ski hard pack. I have not tried falling over but I suspect it would not be pleasant.

Big surprise this morning. I skied the black from Furgg to Furi just before lunch and it was a complete mess. Huge sections were just churned slush. So as I say - stay high.

Nothing in the forecasts for the next week. But the following week is just coming into the “I might start taking notice of this” range. That is Zermatt Unplugged week. It will be nice to have a bit of fresh up top but in the village it looks like it would be rain which will put a bit of a dampener (metaphorically and literally) on things.

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Does anyone know if there is still a limit on pass numbers for Cervinia or this has been dropped (or will be, from 1 April)? If it still applies in April, does anyone know if the limit has actually led to people being turned down for passes? I'm planning to buy day passes online, each morning, but I'm trying to work out whether this involves a serious risk of not being able to purchase.

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I hadn't heard about this and am going on the 2nd. We've not bought anything yet, but the hotel seemed relaxed that they'd sort us out on arrival with no pre booking, but didn't mention any rationing.

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@koru, 99% sure there won't be an issue. The other big Aosta valley resorts (admittedly I didn't check Cervinia, but I did check all the others) had the same warning but didn't even sell out during half term weeks.

I thought I'd just chip in and brag abou my madest ski weekend...
I had a ski buddy I used to ski in Austria with regularly with ... he worked in Zurich.
On a trip to St Anton, I said I would really like to ski in Zematt and Cervinia one weekend.
He said .. "Yea lets do it!" This was 1993
So I drove down to Zurich from Nuremberg on a Friday night.
Caught a 5am train from Zurich to Visp and the little narrow guage up to Zermatt.
When we arrived at about noon it was raining late in the season.
We walked along to buy a two day lift ticket ro Cervinia.
The guy in the ticket office said .. "The weather is so bad ... just go and have a good pasta and a bottle of wine."
He could see how dissapointed we were and said, "How long are you here for?"
"we go home tomorrow Confused

".
He responded .. "Here are the tickets go on and good luck".
We took the big gondola up .. It was a dizzy walk through the tunnel and cloudy at the other end.
Then set off down and turned left at the sign which points to Italy.
The sky turned blue and the sun turned hot.
We had that pasta meal in the sunshine of restaurant deck on the way down to Cervina.
We were well equiped with toothbrushes and spare knickers.
Covered a lot of miles that afternoon and that was probably when I was at the peak of skiing ...
Using those heavy straight 195cm Volkl P10 rails.
My mates skis needed a tune at the end of the day so we popped into a shop just above the village.
The owner lent us shoes we could walk in and recommended a hotel (that his brother owned).
Great night out in all the bars in Cervinia (there was not that many)
Next day started late because I felt I needed to go to mass .. God had certainly been smiling on us.
The problem was all of Milan seemed to be in the lift queue in front of us ...it took ages getting up there again.
Loads more skiing on the Zermatt side this time before finaly rushing for the train, getting our kit out of the locker then just getting our last train back to Zurich.

On the way back down to Visp my mate told me he had a pilots licence...
I suggested we should rent a plane and fly down to visit some other mates of ours who wer living it up in
Juan les Pins. .. A couple of months later a 4 seater Cesna picked me up from Duxford.
Gosh I've had a lucky life.

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@DrLawn, great story!

Enjoyed a fleeting visit on Saturday via the Stockji glacier

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Spent Thu, Fri, Sat snowboarding from Cervinia but covering almost the entire piste map. Probably about 80% of the open runs in Zermatt, Cervinia and Valtourneche. Blue skies all day each day. Snow conditions acceptable if you're OK with hard pack in the morning and some inevitable slush in the afternoon.

Some runs slushing before lunch on Saturday.

In general, best conditions to be found in Zermatt. Off piste not worth considering.

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A chance I might have time for 1 day of skiing in Zermatt, before a classroom based course.

Will be Saturday 23rd April. Anyone have a rough idea of what sort of skiing is likely to be open at that stage?

Presumably, the extra 13 CHF for the Italian side isn't worth it for the one day?

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I had the pleasure of being in Cervinia w/c 20th Mar for a week. We went with Crystal, can't really fault them, their app is super helpful, everything went according to plan, flights. transfer etc. We stayed at the Hotel Breuil which is a bit dated in decor and not gourmet suppers but more than made up for by being clean and having absolutely lovely staff. After all, you're not spending the day there. It's a short walk to the Cretaz chair to get you going. We bought international passes for the week which entitled us to wall to wall sunshine for the week on both sides of the mountain at no extra charge.

There had been a little snow just before we arrived but not much for the past few weeks, however the slopes were in pretty decent condition, slushy at the bottom towards the end of the day. Snow making was operating throughout the week (ie it was pretty cold). The links to Zermatt were open all week, we went over there 3 times, fantastic meals at Restaurant Blatten and Chaima Hitta. Expensive, as we all know, but I only live once. The skiing was great there, the black #62 (?) was fine, if a bit choppy in bits.

Food on the Cervinia side of the mountain was also mostly excellent, Chalet Etoile being the high point in both quality and price. Booking essential. Igloo also was awesome, the most sausages I've ever seen on a plate. The only let down was the Pousset who took my reservation in person at 0930 and had forgotten it by 1300, and weren't prepared to do anything about rectifying the position. Shame.

Apres at the Love Bar up in the mountain, Rocco di Neve near the bottom were both fun. The town is charming too, but we were too stuffed to look at eating out.

All in all it was a great week, no queues anywhere really, slopes mostly pretty quiet, one of those weeks which you just want to repeat again and again.

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Just back from a week in Zermatt. First few days were sunny. Pistes a bit hard packed. Quite a lot of snow on Friday (powder on piste in poor vis) so anyone heading out now is in for a treat.

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Thanks for that! Heading out to cervinia on Saturday ..

Hi
Heading out next week 15th-18th. I have a few questions:

I am staying at White Angel Hotel - Ski-in Ski-out resort so towards the north of Breuil-Cervinia.

1. I see you can get 2 types of pass and one is international which i assume covers the runs into Switzerland. I think i should only need Cervinia-Val pass?
2. Best Apris-Ski places?
3. Best Restaurants?
4. Best Ski hire place?
5. Are the slopes even open on Monday 18th or does it close?

Thank you all in advance!

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