 Poster: A snowHead
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Hello all,
Each year I organise a trip week long European trip with my friends. I have been doing this for some time and the main factors are sure snow and avoiding school holidays. Usually I end up booking the 1st week in February. However these last few years the peak of the snow season seems more and more to be March not February. I'm thinking of picking 1st week of March instead.
What are peoples opinions on this?
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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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@turboblackbeard, in an “average” season, whatever that is, you are much more likely to find the biggest snow depths do actually occur in March, plus longer days, and more temperate weather. You however need to balance that against the increased probability of softer/slushier snow, and perhaps rain, due to the warmer weather. It is crapshoot - put your money down and roll the dice. 
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Thank you Klamm that chart is super helpful. Best dates look to be 9th March or 3rd of February.
I am well aware that if I go for March, February will be amazing and visa versa. Though the trend at the moment to me seems later seasons....
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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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Ulmerhutte - the other factor in going later is as you mentioned, longer days. It would be nice to have a little more time for chilling on the slope without eating into ski time.
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the other factor in going later is as you mentioned, longer days. It would be nice to have a little more time for chilling on the slope without eating into ski time.
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I'm not sure you will. The lifts may close a little bit later - after 17:00 but the pistuers will still sweep the slopes and get you back to the villages long before sunset.
School holidays are bit later in france next year so the start of March will still have two regions holidaying. Mid March (after 10th) may be a better choice.
And of course the usual week will have better snow. That is just how the universe works. However I've always thought of March as being the peak snow month of the season in the French high altitude resorts I frequent.
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We tend to go March and the extra light is good for a walk round the village after skiing more than extra time on the slopes.
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