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When is first snow in Tignes?

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Any early skiers know when the first decent snow usually arrives in Tignes?

Looking to go 7th Dec to watch some WC events in VD.
Got lucky last year as it went from green to white 2 days before we got there.

Thx. snowHead
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I've skied there several years that week, the only time we've lost ski days has been once when the piste basher drivers went on strike. And the other time when more than a metre of snow fell in 18 hours!
They cancelled last years events, only for it to dump it down. The skiing was brilliant.
The bigger problem is mega snow storms rather than lack of snow.
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JulianB, last week Smile

the glacier is already open
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Impossible to say with any certainty. Last year the snow arrived late and, IIRC, the opening of the EK domain was delayed. Previous years I've skied boot deep powder on virtually empty slopes on the last weekend of November. I've been to see the WC downhill in Val d'Isere a few times and there's always been skiing available, even in years when the early season snow wasn't brilliant.

As kitenski said, the glacier at Tignes has been open a couple of weeks and there was plenty of good skiing to be had last week.
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JulianB: It's usually possible to ski all the way down to Val Claret by mid November, on a mix of man-made and natural snow. The run down is sometimes open in the first week of November, by which point it's not unusual for the whole area to be nice and white/under winter cover.

Even last season, when the first big dump wasn't until the beginning of December, the run to Val Claret was open around the 11th of Nov, if I recall correctly.
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I understand that this year there is going to be very heavy snow in the last week of November leading to terrific skiing conditions the following week for the PSB Very Happy Very Happy
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JulianB, Skied 35 cm fresh soft snow in August on the glacier before Very Happy . Spent several weeks in December looking at grass and icy patches where the snow should be. rolling eyes
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