 Poster: A snowHead
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Hello Snow Guru's
Does anyone have experience/knowledge of Cervinia in early/mid April?
I was hoping to drag the clan away during the Easter hols, and Italy would make an interesting destination: but only if its :
a: Open
b: Not wet and slushy.
Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance,
Iain
PS, this enquiry may be obviated if Admin sorts out a suitable Family bash..still says TBC..
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Thu 19-09-13 17:01; edited 2 times in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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The Easter holidays are very late this year, the bank holiday being the 21/4/2014. I imagine this will be the last or penultimate week of the season in Cervina. Thoughts about what the snow conditions will be like are purely speculative but I would hazard a guess that the mornings will be very firm and the afternoons wet and slushy.
I skied that week in Zermatt a few years ago and the snow in Cervinia was fine when we went over the border. I remember driving back in a blizzard the last weekend in April.
Sorry if that is not much help
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Cervinia was ace* weekend before May day weekend this year.
* ace includes skiing by braille and skiing dirty sloppy lovely wet pow all the way to the village.
To be honest not wet and slushy is a big ask in April. If it's sunny stuff corns up, if it storms and temperatures aren't just so, chances are you'll get quite high moisture content snow.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I was in Cervinia Feb 2012, we had unseasonably high temperatures, daytimes 12-18º, overnight 4-6º. The snow had deteriorated considerably but they did an amazing job of keeping all the runs open and prepared.
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I'd like to think conditions of 2013 will be repeated in 2014 but I'm not counting on it!
It's a long time ago but I've been to Cervinia at Easter a few times. Mixed. Some years good, some years skiing to village level was deteriorating or non-existent.
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