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We've got flights booked to arrive in Zurich noon Saturday 5 December and leaving 1 week later. The original plan was to go wherever has the most fresh snow, but things are looking slightly more complex. According to the various reports, Zermatt and Laax only have a small proportion of the pistes and lifts open. Also, although Zermatt is famed for its off piste, when you look closer it seems that the best area only really opens in January and that many of the other areas need a lot of snow to cover the crevasses and rocks, so maybe not such a great idea.
So Zermatt has more snow but needs more to cover the rocks than Ischgl. Laax seems to only have 10% of the lifts open.
Given the fairly limited amount of snow about (at least compared to this weekend last year), please can someone throw in some opinions about where we'll get the best off piste this weekend and next week.
Or indeed just opinions about where offers the best off piste in normal conditions at this time of year for 'punters'.
cheers
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Andermatt looks like it got dumped on. Not sure if its open yet though.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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abc, I very much look forward to prove you wrong this weekend. 
Offpiste November skiing in the last two years was niiiiice....
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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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| TheGeneralist wrote: |
We've got flights booked to arrive in Zurich noon Saturday 5 December and leaving 1 week later. The original plan was to go wherever has the most fresh snow, but things are looking slightly more complex. According to the various reports, Zermatt and Laax only have a small proportion of the pistes and lifts open. Also, although Zermatt is famed for its off piste, when you look closer it seems that the best area only really opens in January and that many of the other areas need a lot of snow to cover the crevasses and rocks, so maybe not such a great idea.
So Zermatt has more snow but needs more to cover the rocks than Ischgl. Laax seems to only have 10% of the lifts open.
Given the fairly limited amount of snow about (at least compared to this weekend last year), please can someone throw in some opinions about where we'll get the best off piste this weekend and next week.
Or indeed just opinions about where offers the best off piste in normal conditions at this time of year for 'punters'.
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I enjoyed some very good off piste early December last year in Ischgl, but it (and the year before) both had well above average early snowfall. This year the Alps suffered high temperatures all through the second half of November, so conditions are unlikely to be quite so friendly.
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| horizon wrote: |
abc, I very much look forward to prove you wrong this weekend.
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Indeed, perhaps you could add some value to that by stating where you're planning to ski off piste? Probably Whistler at a guess!
Anyway Andermatt does look like it got a lot of snow but I went there 2 years ago and couldn't really improve on the experience so I'm keen to try somewhere else. I got my Swiss Transfer Ticket ordered today so it looks like we're off to Zermatt.
Indeed last year was something else. The weekend of 5 December in St Anton was amazing, absolutely amazing
yehaa
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whistler
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TheGeneralist, a number of people I know are converging on Zinal Saturday. Not sure about Sunday.
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Zermatt looked rocky last weekend except on the glaciers where the crevasses won't have filled in yet - so be careful if you go there
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Lots of snow in Andermatt, an avalanche knocked a train off the tracks!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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You probably there now. Off Piste at this time of the year is very dangerous ! Thin base, warm ground , new snow 
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