Finally it's back

CardinalJ

Switzerland set for a dump.

Fattes

CardinalJ wrote: »

Here

Not exactly a well know resort.

Ha ha I have skied there lovely!!

Mountain in the photo is the Dents du midi

CardinalJ

Fattes wrote: »

Ha ha I have skied there lovely!!

Mountain in the photo is the Dents du midi

No idea how most people could end up there. Middle of nowhere. Haha

fannymagee

Fattes

CardinalJ wrote: »

No idea how most people could end up there. Middle of nowhere. Haha

You would be amazed were FIS races take you

mahoney_j

fannymagee wrote: »

Soll is looking pretty amazing at the moment.

CardinalJ

Fattes wrote: »

You would be amazed were FIS races take you

There's a great run there when the snow is good enough, from top of the Eggishorn down into Fiesch. Think its a bit over 1800m down. Tried it without stopping last year. Serious leg burner.

Bambaata

Fattes wrote: »

Today

I hate you Fattes! We didnt get any France sun last week there

Looks beautiful and that hasnt helped the post hols blues

Enjoy!

Fattes

Well it dumped today first freeski day in a few days and skied trees, a little pow and hit some cliff drops

Also 1st ski with the other half in over a year

Dr Nic

Omg so beautiful.
3 weeks to go. Please wait for us...

Northern Monkey

Somehting similar showing for Courchevel. If half of it falls (and at night) I will be happy Roll on Saturday!

sallymomo

I'm sooooooooooooo excited!!! In 48 hours I will be there :-)
See attached a snap shot from webcam today, bloody marvellous.
Soft landings all round

Enjoy to anyone else heading wherever you fancy this weekend!

sallymomo

And weather taken from the Village website:

Weather conditions: cloudy Minimum temperature: -3
Maximum temperature: -2
Wind: weak
Visibility: good
Umidity: 92,5%
Snow depht Min: 220 cm
Snow depht Max: 310 cm
Last snow fall: 01/30/2014
Height of last snowfall: 80 cm
Snow quality: powderly
Free-ride danger avalanches: 4-High
Road conditions: obligation of autosock on board


Forecasting fresh stuff all the way until next Thursday

fannymagee

Have a great time Sallymomo- looks like you chose a great week!! :-)

sallymomo

Thanks FM!
Back in the office now :-(

What a week, snow everywhere!
I will post a review in the next few days with added pics...
Summary is;
arrived Sunday eve, snowing, snow didnt stop until thursday morning. Thursday was a beautiful sunny day and first time there were a few on the slopes, had it nearly all to ourselves on Wednesday.
Friday snowing again, on the way back to the village on friday eve and had bad fall about 800ms from the village.
Looks like I'll be getting a scan done today at some stage :-(

Which obviously meant that I didnt ski on Saturday!!
Hope you are all enjoying the dumps of snow.

It's great out there

fannymagee

Oh no!! Hope you're ok- it happens so easily!! Good luck with the scan...

Glad you'd a good week otherwise- at least you saved the fall till the end ;-)

sallymomo

Thanks FM
Tis a sore dose alright! Partly my own fault as the skis i hired weren't great.
Left one got stuck in a small ridge of snow and didnt disconnect meaning my leg got bent backwards in the wrong direction.
Probably ligaments in the knee as thats where the initial burn was and is still the sorest part but there are other bad parts down to my achilles so best to be safe.

I had hoped to get a few days over paddys weekend so we will see what happens

Pending

Not much new stuff in St Anton. WAY too much grass showing.

Fattes

Where am I today??

a148pro

Is it Monte Rosa?

Fattes

a148pro wrote: »

Is it Monte Rosa?

It's the Italian side of mount blanc if that helps!

Courmayer

a148pro

Fattes wrote: »

It's the Italian side of mount blanc if that helps!

Courmayer

Right country at least! enjoy

fmlarnapairce

Fattes wrote: »

It's the Italian side of mount blanc if that helps!

Courmayer

had thought originally it was la thuile, looks to me like a similar view of MB from there

CardinalJ

Back from Switzerland last night. Amazing snow conditions.

Hope anyone heading out soon gets the good stuff. That's me done on snow until 2015 which is upsetting!!

Rippeditup

Just back from Meribel yesterday and we got very lucky with conditions. Massive dump on the 1st 2 days followed by blue skies for the remainder of the holiday. This lead to great conditions but the outlook is not great with tempetures jumping Friday & Saturday and that is set to continue.

Fattes

It's light it's fluffy and it is dumping from the skis about 8-15cm all ready and it's still falling all the way down to about 1,200 meters

Dr Nic

Still Engelberg Fattes?
Dammit we missed this dump by 5 days :-(
Id say tues to thurs in lech will be pumping

Fattes

Yep, snow forecast through till Thur, so should be a good week

Fattes

Today was mostly

Fattes

Today was mostly

Fattes

& today there was this

http://youtu.be/F7rZ_VKW_h4

cormee

Just looking at the Chamonix webcams today - lots, and lots of snow! Five days and I'll be there!

Fattes

This am lift acceded fun another dump forecast and lifts open till May

http://youtu.be/InO6udZ26hc

cormee

Nice conditions, Fattes. But who the hell holds their phone like that when recording!

Fattes

cormee wrote: »

Nice conditions, Fattes. But who the hell holds their phone like that when recording!

You just can't get good staff!! Don't worry GoPro footage will be compiled and put together after tomorrow!! Another 10cm tonight and bluebird tomorrow

Fattes

Yesterday!!