Snow for the Euros.

My 15 yr. old son (BB Ridgekid) arrived last week in Chamonix to go to high school and reports in that the kids are quite cool and he will get to ski 4 days a week. His classmates informed him he is a Chaminard now.

Today was his first day skiing with a group of kids training to be either mountain guides or instructors. I was hesitant for him to bring his skins and bc gear but it sounds like they will be in the backcountry with supervision, so he is very excited.

They skied Brevant today and the conditions were quite icy but expecting snow tonight. The wife must, however, wait for her nordic trails to fill in.

A big thanks to Brian, Ed and Tom for answering my pretrip questions. It's tough turning your kid out and not being there.

What an excellent experience for him. Well done to you for letting him do it.

speaking of kids - a 6 year old girl dies after falling 300m down a couliour in Engelberg after her ski instructor took her group offpiste.

http://www.20min.ch/news/luzern/story/19674413 (german)

that deserves a huge WTF? :(

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Originally Posted by geo039

Snow in Geneva at this moment....come on Euro Mags get the dancing and the stoke going...report in!:biggrin:

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didn't get anything here. still waiting for this snow. at the moment, the storm is splitting west and east, missing western switz. looks like so. french alps and ticino are getting hammered. hopefully it will swirl around a bit give us our share.

dance muddafukker dance!

Puking in Geneva right now 14:19PM CET

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Originally Posted by Ripzalot

didn't get anything here. still waiting for this snow. at the moment, the storm is splitting west and east, missing western switz. looks like so. french alps and ticino are getting hammered. hopefully it will swirl around a bit give us our share.

dance muddafukker dance!

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Originally Posted by geo039

Puking in Geneva right now 14:19PM CET

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good to hear!!! Should be over the hill in Leysin within the hour or so??????

hopefully

Snowing in downtown Cham 14.43

Started dumping here in Cham a couple hours ago, finally. Can I get a "WOO HOO!"? :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:

Work suddenly just got a lot more fun...

well ,for once we (Bulgaria) are getting more snow than the Alps :
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/508/novsniag7uu.jpg
snow forecast for the next 6 days
So it's pink alert, I've waited for this moment for more than a year..this weekend should be the first real pow days for many of us here.

Yep things in Cham are starting to look goood. Meteo forecasting 25-30cm AT 1000mt tonite. Up the mountain: bliss.

Forecast for next few days, remaining cold -finally- but the eastern Alps should get another arctic front hitting them on Saturday. Sadly, I think this will miss us. But at least things are looking like winters finally arrived....

I wonder how courmayeur is doing- today they should have got more than us...

FINALLY SNOWING GOOD HERE IN LEYSIN


4:00PM

Keep it coming!

Snow is piling up out there!

Finally winter has arrived!

Bansko should be going off huge but even the Tatrys should see more accumulation than the alpine shitholes!;)

snowing in the city earlier, now back to drizzle but who's complaining.

vihren: i take it you don't have any kind of base? how much do you need for things to be enjoyabe?

Started snowing in Zermatt around 1pm up top. Fell fairly hard through most of the afternoon. It was blowing a bit, but it seemed like 5-7cm by 4pm. Not so much in town, maybe 4cm now, but was falling nicely last time I checked. Hopefully this continues all night.

Southern Eastern Alps are going off: Nassfeld in particular. It's the classic Adriatief.

60cm in the valley
100cm in the ski resort

... and still dumping. More snow predicted on Wednesday and Thursday.

Man, I wish I was back at my grandmother's place ...

Newspapers encourage people "to avoid Carinthia" (for once, not because of its governor but because of the snow masses)
http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=2738677

7 meters. 7 meters. 7 meters. You know it, bitch.

i Just read that in the winter of 89-90 the first snow in the alps didnt come until january 27...It could always be worse!

yep it started snowing in Zurich in the last hour - fuck yeah! anyone know what the forecast is looking like for the dolomites? will be there for 3 days this coming weekend..............

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i Just read that in the winter of 89-90 the first snow in the alps didnt come until january 27...It could always be worse!

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Nah, I remember being in La Plagne in early January 1990. There was a whopping 5cm down low and 15cm up high but most of the higher pistes were skiable.

Snow mudderfudder snow!!!

FWIW, I'm in toronto and it's snowing..... bah!

yaaaaaaa, already a bunch in Leysin considerin the amount of time its been falling!!!! PLEASE KEEP DUMPIN!!!

so it snowed/rained a bit in innsbruck but stopped some hours ago. oh well, i hope its still coming up on the mountains :\

snow on the ground in north london...

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snow on the ground in north london...

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Yeah? We got a whole INCH in South London! I am considering busting out my Sanouks for the Garrett Lane schlog to work. :D