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Hi All,
Anybody been to Zermatt first week of the season?
We are going skiing on the 12th Dec,Zermatt looking favourite are snow conditions ok?is it fully open?
Thanks for any info
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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You should expect about 20 - 30% of the ski area to be open in an average season.
If it gets a great start to the season, then 40 - 60% will be open.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Thanks.
Any recommendations for good snow that week?
We have the week booked but not the resort,we went to Chamonix same time last year and only one face was open,we were alternating that with going to Cormayeur every other day-it was still a good week though.
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| humbucker wrote: |
Thanks.
Any recommendations for good snow that week?
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Whatever looks promising come 1st dec? why book in advance for one of the quietest weeks of year?
otherwise pick somewhere large and relatively high e.g. Tignes, valthorens, cervinia etc. Couple of years back approx 60% of the les arcs domain was open that weekened and probably some 80% was open by the end of the week..
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| Whitegold wrote: |
You should expect about 20 - 30% of the ski area to be open in an average season.
If it gets a great start to the season, then 40 - 60% will be open. |
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We've been 2nd weekend of December for the last 2 years and everything was open. I'll try and dig out the threads pictures for you later.
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Thanks for the replies everyone.
I fancy Zermatt because we have never been there,it has a good snow history and has altitude,linked to cervina and apparently you can get the train to sass fee as well from zermatt,sounds like a decent shout to me.
waitng till early december is the other alternative.
Bobinch-if you drop some photos on-that would be great.
cheers.
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I was there from 28th November last year and after a heavy dump of snow at the start of the week most of the piste domain was open.
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rob@rar, last year was exceptional I think, wasn't it?
Mind you we went New Year 08/09 and it was 100% open apart from the T-bars up at Trifti (sp?) and we were skiing in knee deep powder on piste mid week.
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humbucker, some pictures in this thread. http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=62294
The first few are from May, lower down there are some from the last 2 Decembers
paulio, 08/09 enjoyed an exceptional start to the season - we skied deep powder in Verbier in November, Val Thorens 1st weekend December and Zermatt 2nd weekend.
09/10 was nowhere near as good in November and December - I think snow depths were nearer to the average for that time of year
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| paulio wrote: |
| rob@rar, last year was exceptional I think, wasn't it? |
I don't know. The snow was quite sparse when I arrived and not many pistes were open. But within a few hours it started to snow heavily and continued for the like that for most of the next two days, with 70cm falling at resort level. With that amount of snow the majority of the pistes were soon opened up, so I don't think that anyone can say with certainty that only 20-30% will be open before Christmas as far in excess of that was open when I was there last season.
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| BobinCH wrote: |
| Whitegold wrote: |
You should expect about 20 - 30% of the ski area to be open in an average season.
If it gets a great start to the season, then 40 - 60% will be open. |
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We've been 2nd weekend of December for the last 2 years and everything was open. I'll try and dig out the threads pictures for you later. |
facts don't seem to be relevant to the stuff whitegold posts.....
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