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Very light dusting at high level last night, led some seasonaires to whoop 'Powder!' this morning, but stupidly hot out here and all had turned to slush by 2 ish.
the snow forecast for Tues & Weds is desperatly needed.
North facing itinerinies are in decent nick, although heavily mogulled.
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pmercer, artificial snow can be applied to most of the pistes in the Verbier and Savolyeres sectors.....however a lot of us Verbier skiers use those as little more than a transit system to the good stuff 
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| pmercer wrote: |
HI Red 27, I am out in Verbier this Saturday, has there been much improvement in the snow after todays flurries? Any talk of more snow later in the week?
Also whats the artificial snow set up like in verbier, it certainly looks like it is going to be cold enough over the next few days to start to think about using it!! |
I'm out to Verbier on saturday too. First visit to Switzerland for me.
Was great to hear some snow coming in - just looked at the forecast for tomorrow - minus 27 degrees with windchill just at midmountain... that's a big change from the +14 ...
How's it look this morning?
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pmercer, chrisss, I'm back in the UK, but although Tuesday was a great ski day there was only a few inches of fresh snow and they still need more as there are stones and ice patches coming through.
Everything is open though and you guys should have plenty of skiing. Lots of great bars and restaurants - the evidence of which is clearly visible in my post from Monday night. 
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hey red_27 - thanks for the updates - I'm going with my eyes open and not expecting the week to be light on my wallet . . . so should be able to enjoy it 
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I am currently in Verbier.
Conditions are absolutely rubbish.
The town is green.
Most of the lower slopes are bare.
They urgently need 50cm+ of snow.
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Whitegold, where did you ski today? Tortin was amazing, Mont Gele was excellent and I've seen some photos of people skiing in pristine A1 conditions off the back of Mont Fort. Did you make it off les Esserts?
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Whitegold, Do you actually have a lift pass or are your reports entirely based on the view from the Farinet?
I hate to contradict someone on the spot from my comfortable position on the sofa in Brighton, but a little whizz round the webcams tells me that you may have missed something.
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parlor, is there anywhere a bit less gnarly that's good? I'm not too worried, as snow seems to be due next week and I don't arrive till the 15th. But it would be interesting to know if there's anywhere nice at the moment that's not also super-black!
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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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Hurtle, lac de Vaux, short as it, is really good. The main drag from Attalas to Ruinettes is really good. As you get below Ruinettes it is pretty polished now but they are trying to spread snow around, a good tune and GS turns made it lots of fun... You'll be fine.
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parlor, Thank you. I thought Whitegold was probably talking rot! 
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You know it makes sense.
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| Whitegold wrote: |
| They urgently need 50cm+ of snow. |
happily that's forecast to arrive during this coming week...
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Just got back, and whilst I didn't feel the need to reach for the Sumos, conditions are holding up OK. Below 2000 things aren't great, but even La Combe not too bad. Mont Fort and Gentianes OK, Lac des Vaux in good shape and Attelas OK as well, albeit pretty busy this afternoon. Forecast seems pretty consistent for a decent snowfall in the early and middle part of next week. Roll on next Saturday. Especially now I've got the new liners in my boots
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Yep, just thought I'd add to everyone's comments - got back yesterday from a week in Verbier and we managed to find good snow on every day (or Phil and Tom from Warren Smith's team did  ). We also managed to ski some rubbish stuff as well, but nothing a fresh fall and more consistent temperatures won't sort out.
Stairway was lovely on Friday morning and Lac des Vaux was good all week. We also had some decent runs on Tortin, Mont Gele, Mont Fort, Fontenay (sp?) and others. A pretty changeable week for conditions but not a rubbish one by any means.
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They said it.
Just got back from a sociable weekend...saturday skiing with Parlor and sunday with BGA. Good fun.
Televerbier have done a great job. Pistes are generally hard, in places very hard, but given the lack of snow in that last few weeks there are still no bare patches.
More snow to come, it is only early March...
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Yes, that's all very nice and fine, but please could someone tell me, pretty please, that it is actually SNOWING. Thanks in advance. [Exit to perform evening snow dance.]
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| Hurtle wrote: |
| Yes, that's all very nice and fine, but please could someone tell me, pretty please, that it is actually SNOWING. Thanks in advance. [Exit to perform evening snow dance.] |
it was indeed snowing last night in the resort. For a good four or five hours I think. Seemed to stop over night though.
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chrisss, (More please.)
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in fact... its snowing here right now. Clouds are not far above the town.
Definitely a day for the goggles.
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chrisss, looks like p-ing rain at village level on the webcams... hopefully translating to snow at Ruinettes & higher? 
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On / off rain / snow at resort level but snowing above. Just back from skiing in Bruson. Amazing conditions, the wind has loaded some faces to give 20cm of fluffy powder. Very happy. Photos to follow.
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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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parlor, ooh, I'm so HAPPY!
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You know it makes sense.
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How was our favourite route parlor ?
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snowed lightly up top most of yesterday and was snowing at 1500m for the early part of the evening. Turned to rain though for most of the evening.
Raining again this morning 
I'm just not going up today.
Off-piste yesterday was nice but had to stay awake. New snow was wind blown and just sitting on top of the hardpacked older crusty stuff.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Conditions are brutal in Verbier today.
It has been raining almost continuously below 1800m for the past 24 hrs and it looks set to continue for the rest of the day.
The town is practically snowless.
The lower slopes everywhere are rocky, grassy, patchy, icy and slushy. Things look grim. It is warm. It is more like Apr than Mar.
However, up top, above 2000m, the snow is hoofing down. Looks like roughly a coupla feet over the past 2 days.
Gonna bang it up to Mont Fort at first lift tomorrow. Hubba hubba 
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| parlor wrote: |
| Whitegold, where did you ski today? Tortin was amazing, Mont Gele was excellent and I've seen some photos of people skiing in pristine A1 conditions off the back of Mont Fort. Did you make it off les Esserts? |
parlor, Conditions are reasonable up top, but horrific lower down. Snowdepths everywhere are way, way below-average for this time of year. Verbier is having a poor season.
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parlor is unable to respond after spending ALL night in the Casbah. It is raining though.
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25cm last night. 20cm the night before. Careful selection of skiing = mind blowing.
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parlor, chrisss, are any Savoleyre pistes skiable, do you know, or is it all too low?
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Hurtle, looking at the webcams looks like front side of Savolyres is somewhat brown, but I suspect that the main part over the backside will be quite nice and skiable. I will be in town at 10am tomorrow, so if no-one else posts in the meantime I'll do so tomorrow afternoon, or if I can get the PDA working I'll post over lunch
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