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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Just looked on Bergfex, and there's a drop in the FL for the weekend. It was at 2400m, now it's 1900m. A step in the right direction?
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First big dump delivered as expected on the west side of Lower Valais. Snowline up around 2000m
Sunny and warm today and then looks like Friday night through to Sunday morning should be colder and another big dump of fresh. Looks like Sunday could be a bluebird powder day…
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Feels like we're having a breather today, before all the craziness starts again tomorrow.
Looking at La Plagne, the webcams all look a much healthier on slopes above 1900m, but no real change on anything below that. Looks like there could be a decent amount of snow down to about 1300m tomorrow, so hopefully that changes.
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It’s dumping!!! Cracking weekend ahead
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@BobinCH, With a whiteout all day tomorrow and another 50cm of snow what do you think the avalanche risk on Sunday will be?
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| chocksaway wrote: |
| @BobinCH, With a whiteout all day tomorrow and another 50cm of snow what do you think the avalanche risk on Sunday will be? |
Probably 3, maybe 4 if there is a lot of wind. Will certainly require care but with good viz I think it could be a cracking day
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Saturday could be interesting for people arriving in France
This from the Les Arcs website
"For Saturday
Travel conditions will be disrupted on the Savoie road network from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m"
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| albob wrote: |
Saturday could be interesting for people arriving in France
This from the Les Arcs website
"For Saturday
Travel conditions will be disrupted on the Savoie road network from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m" |
Snow or strikes? The valley forecast looks wet but not too bad.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@chocksaway, for reference, higher lifts in Chamonix are allcloseddue wind.
It will be 3 min for 100%, good chance of 4 …
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@chocksaway, For today, the risk is showing up on the map as 4 on the Italian side (Aosta Valley). I don't know if there is a particular change in risk as you cross the border, or if the Italian team has made a different assessment than the French and Swiss in the same area. https://avalanche.report/
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You know it makes sense.
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Hello again all, by the way. Returning occasional user from long before the unfortunate security incident.
Thanks to all for the snow updates, it’s been tense! Hopefully I will bung up a very positive 3V report next week!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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@Scarlet, weather and snow conditions are often massively different north and south of the border - I've driven to the Fréjus tunnel in a convoy behind a snow plough, with only one lane of the motorway open, and emerged into Italy to find not a flake of snow in sight.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Scarlet, looks like a wind loading thing? don't think the Italian side getting more snow than we are? Also looks like a difference of opinion...
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@pam w, I can believe it, it just looks a little odd on the map to have a kind of isolated red area, but I defer to those who have greater knowledge of the region.
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Hello,
Long time lurker, first time poster !
Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask, but I will be in Geneva this weekend. I was thinking of taking daytrips to Chamonix, on both Saturday and Sunday. Think Saturday will be particuarly problematic due to the weather, am I correct in writting off Saturday? Would Les Houches remain open for example?
Thanks!
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@Scarlet, not too sure if you've seen the French Avy risk site - but if you click the link below which is Alpes de Nord, you can then drill down into all the main Massifs and then see very precise detail.
https://meteofrance.com/meteo-montagne/alpes-du-nord/risques-avalanche
Might well be a lot of 4's on there by Sunday.
That said yesterday I was about 20m away from a big slide a skier in front of me set off, though as it turned out not too deep a crown, but still goes to show - more in the Serre thread.
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Looking further ahead, I wonder whether this March madness might mean a reprieve for some lower ski areas which looked as though they'd be a complete write off by the end of this month?
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@pam w, I'm not sure that much if any snow will fall below below 16/1700m for the foreseeable and even then, I suspect any sustained falls will be above 2000m
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@Weathercam, yes, you can click through from the link I posted.
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@BobinCH, good move sending the boarder down first 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Yak, have you moved to Scotland!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@BobinCH, -2 marks. You missed the opportunity to turn it into ‘powabunga’.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| hammerite wrote: |
| @BobinCH, -2 marks. You missed the opportunity to turn it into ‘powabunga’. |
It’s raining at 1500m and nothing yet open above Ruinettes so holding that one back for a bit!!
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It’s raining at 1500m and nothing yet open above Ruinettes so holding that one back for a bit!!
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That's wise. This snow seems to be claggy stuff at mid-altitude - good to help repair the base, once pisted, but please God let people not starting blithering on about "pow".
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@Rob Mackley, +1. Its wet and claggy in Tignes and nowhere near the temps for powder snow (= the wind at height that is plastering the snow to the base)
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now much less concerned about April skiing .
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Yes, me too, especially as I'm purely looking at piste skiing. This last lot of snow looks like being really heavy clag - leg breaking stuff - but they were taking it away in lorry loads in Les Saisies at 1650 this morning, which was cheerful viewing. Happily there seems to be some hope for colder weather and more precipitation next week. Early April is never really good in middle altitude resorts (it's 1600 - 2000m which interests me) but until this last episode there looked like being a real risk of widespread closures.
By early April at those sort of altitudes the ski conditions are icy/slushy regardless of snow depth. I'd not realised that but one year in Les Saisies when there were HUGE depths of snow in early April I learnt that you only ski on the top few inches - I'd naively thought that the depth of white stuff would keep the top few inches nicer!
But the outlook is now much improved, which is cheering.
Apart from our own selfish interests, it will be good if resorts can do well from the last "holiday" period of the year; they've had a tough time so far.
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As most of verbier was closed this morning we headed up to Bruson.
Visibility was fine, but snow very claggy and pistes were lumpy and bumpy as snow happened after last night's piste bashing.
It was warm and humid too...not great really.
At lunchtime we crossed back to main Verbier...a lot colder, the snow was really nice but the Visibility was dreadful.
I haven't skied so badly in years!
Sacked it off a few minutes ago and am now in the lift on my way back to Le Chable.
Tomorrow's pistes should be super after a jolly good bashing!
Off piste in Bruson was no fun at all...super heavy stuff.
Off piste up around Lac de Vaux felt nice, smooth sub powder (not powder) but you could not see a thing so I didn't stick at it at all.
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Glad I won't be sharing with any of them.
