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Pyrenees snow storm 01/02/2015
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We haven't managed to get up high yet but at village level we have well over a metre of fresh snow in Bareges (Grand Tourmalet resort - French Pyrenees), around 1.5m at 1400m and what must be coming up for 2m at altitude. Avalanche conditions are 5 out of 5 and quite major towns are looking at evacuation... It is still snowing hard with another system due through on Wednesday.




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Current road closures can be seen on the Dept 65 website: http://inforoute.cg65.fr/
There are more pics and videos on our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mountainbug/168930886500104?ref=hl
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Hi Rob, Happy New Year to you guys Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy

Same here with the snow amounts, not as much in Luchon itself only about 70cm but about 2m up high over the last couple of days. We will be loosing our exclusivity title for Luchon as some ex-employees of yours are setting up in town also.

Hope you and the family are all well.
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It's been snowing all day across most of the range, and I hear that most of the roads to ski stations on the French side of the western/central Pyrenees are closed due to avalanche risk.

Very dangerous conditions out there, since prior to the snowfall there was a lot of wind causing a highly irregular base, and there's been wind during the snowfall too. And at least where I am in the central Spanish Pyrenees, the snow didn't cohere well to the old base at first, which is never a good sign. Sadly, a skier was killed yesterday in the western Spanish Pyrenees in a closed area of the small resort Candanchú.

For a large set photos, see http://www.nevasport.com/phorum/read.php?3,3424181,page=4 (which is SnowHeads' Spanish equivalent!)


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Amazing depths!
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Enormous snow, high wind at altitude and an avalanche risk of 5/5 kept Luchon-Superbagneres and Peyragudes closed. And personally even with my trusty Land Rover I would not have attempted to drive up today.

Still snowing heavily after a brief lull mid afternoon. Probably at least another 10cm in the last couple of hours.

I shall not be rushing onto the mountain tomorrow as I think they are going to be very slow in clearing and opening up.
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Hi Mike,

Happy new year to you too. Its good here our three little ones are keeping us very busy with sledging, nose blowing etc.

The resorts are all closed here tomorrow, avalanches across the roads, Cauterets and Gavarnie are evacuating... Still snowing.

Yes the Free Range chalet, they are a lovely couple and should help throw some more Pyrenees marketing to the UK, I reckon we have space for a few hundred more chalets really, well maybe more than 2 anyway Smile
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Am glad of the more sheltered base of the Pyrenees Orientales foothills....was due to head to the Grandvalira for a night tomorrow but seeing as the Andorran France border is closed due to high Avalanche risk am going to continue to ski locally for the last 2 days of my 4 day break-most of Font Romeu was open today and not too windy. Otherwise I may not get back to Barcelona on Wednesday! Snow depths coming up to 2m though for Les Angles. Does sound quite windy outside at present and I'm only at 500 odd metres...
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Hi Mike,

Happy new year to you too. Its good here our three little ones are keeping us very busy with sledging, nose blowing etc.

The resorts are all closed here tomorrow, avalanches across the roads, Cauterets and Gavarnie are evacuating... Still snowing.

Yes the Free Range chalet, they are a lovely couple and should help throw some more Pyrenees marketing to the UK, I reckon we have space for a few hundred more chalets really, well maybe more than 2 anyway Smile


We have been fortunate to have the place to ourselves for 10 years, and as you say they are a nice couple (we were chatting with them tonight in one of our bars). I still find it crazy that the UK market avoids the Pyrenees when we have such amazing skiing.

A few years back we had journalists from the Good Ski Guide who did an a fantastic spread covering our resorts, which was also backed up in their "Easy Ski" article focusing on easy connections from the UK. But still the numbers are ridiculously small. It is OK for us as we have a strong loyal base of clients - but the opportunity is great.

As they say in the film "build it and they will come" - maybe one day soon people will wake up Very Happy Very Happy
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Tourist office of Piau-Engaly, before (saturday morning, upper picture) and after (sunday evening).

Saterday morning, 120 cms of fresh snow.


According to the sources (skipass.com) the cumulative is now 370 cms.
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Tourist office of Piau-Engaly, amazing shots
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