Snow for the Euros.

[Telepath]

La Grave, part one. It was good.

[subtle plague]

give us part 2 godammit !

[Telepath]

Sunday I think. No time now, then offline for the weekend. It's coming. As well as parts 3 and 4

[subtle plague]

precip is the word for the mini.

snow levels will be an issue though.
at 2000m you'd be on the safe side.(as of today)
it could be warm/wet, mild/wet, or cooler/wet (not cold)
soooo engelberg won't lose any snow above 1800 i'd guess and above 2400 lighter pow could be falling.
im hoping for a better development, but it doesn't look super bad right now either.

[ulty_guy]

well, consider any forecasted snow as officially jinxed.....

....mounted up the sanouks this past weekend

[subtle plague]

right now it looks like you're jinxing the snow levels AND the precip somehow. because with a westerly flow engelberg doesn't get much(nothing but cloudy weather). and it gets warm.

congratulations!

[ulty_guy]

that's ok, i'm going to cham

[davidof]

that's ok, i'm going to cham

Agghh gawd lets hope it cools down a bit. It is soooo hot today with the zero iso around 2500 m at the mo you need water skis rather than snow skis. We are having to ski at night to keep cool: Grenoble Night Skiing

[wildstyle]

Agghh gawd lets hope it cools down a bit. It is soooo hot today with the zero iso around 2500 m at the mo you need water skis rather than snow skis. We are having to ski at night to keep cool: Grenoble Night Skiing

i think quite a few of us already have skis that qualify for this role ...



i saw the tour on pistehors.com with myou guys night skiing, looked very nice. i have to try that sometime....

[bad_roo]

Agghh gawd lets hope it cools down a bit. It is soooo hot today with the zero iso around 2500 m at the mo you need water skis rather than snow skis. We are having to ski at night to keep cool: Grenoble Night Skiing

Good job I'm going to have this right outside my door to whisk me up nearly 6,000 vertical feet then.

[KANUTTEN]

So, for the n-th time; I am going (most likely) to the berner oberland this upcoming weekend, for a 5 day touring trip, after which I'll be going to E-berg for the euro minisummit. However, the long range forecast seems a little sketchy right now; snow on saturday, better fro sunday and monday, and then bad wheather thereafter. As we know things can change rapidly especially for long range forecasts. But I was thinking about having backup plans. So I guess the question is;

What is the best resort for bad wheather skiing reasonably close to the berner oberland? Grindelwald, lötschental?? Others...

[TeleAl]

I only report snow, on the SNOW for the Euros thread.

Not being in Leysin at the moment, I cannot tell you.
However, I did see snow yesterday at about 1400m.

Think Snow.

[davidof]

Good job I'm going to have this right outside my door to whisk me up nearly 6,000 vertical feet then.

That is such a good idea - always great to have a cable car and a 4500 meter mountain outside the back door.

How wide are those Spatula 2 skis wildstyle?

[Idris]

10cm at 3700m, 5cm at 2500m - Dust on nasty crust, just like being back at lake louise.

[wildstyle]

How wide are those Spatula 2 skis wildstyle?

wide enough for this ....



I'm not sure ... i think all the spatulas are the same sidecut ... (i may be wrong )

[bbirtle]

Chamonix 3/22/06, 12:28 in the afternoon: Just woke up to see your trip report, Idris. Sorry to hear your first Midi lift wasn't incredible on the other hand given we didn't get back from Les Chaucas until around 3 and my head STILL hurts, not sorry to have ignored your SMS this morning...

[wildstyle]

this pretty much settles it for me .... I'm wearing beacons whenever i go skiing now ....

she was only a few metres from the marked run and was found buried beneath the snow 45 minutes later by a rescue dog.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4826252.stm


nice to see david from pistehors is getting quoted on the BBC website as well...... the BBc now know where to go to get alpine quotes.

[CantDog]

this pretty much settles it for me .... I'm wearing beacons whenever i go skiing now ....


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4826252.stm


nice to see david from pistehors is getting quoted on the BBC website as well...... the BBc now know where to go to get alpine quotes.

Seems to be that all the people are dying in the french alps. Maybe its because the french arent that bright?

Shall we dig for the bodies?
But I am le'tired.
Well have a nap! And then dig for le'bodies!

[Franz Klammer]

Great conditions on the Haute Route. A couple I met in Pakistan just emailed me this:

Chamonix-Zermatt 15-21 Mars

Chamonix- Zermatt ce n'est pas toujours l'autoroute...

Un temps sur mesure, pas une trace pendant 4 jours..., des refuges vides, des chamois et autres lièvres pour seuls compagnons!

La montagne comme on l'aime!

[Arno]

lots of avalanche activity in this one

[keksie]

uhh. nice. cant see much competition..
edit: for the pow i mean

[Tectonically_Neglected]

lots of avalanche activity in this one

Well spotted Sherlock...

[bbirtle]

Damn G3000 looks nice today!

Did a little afternoon cappuchino run to the Italian border. Unbelievable but the snow up there at 3800m on South facing slopes was really heavy and sloppy... it was super hot in the morning and I think it was sun-baked.

But on the Italian side it was good pow... up to the knees in places. A little thick, but a nice surprise.

[Arno]

Well spotted Sherlock...

glad you spotted my super powers of observation

[bbirtle]

Chamonix 3/24 --- Rain, rain rain. Snow level up at 2000m means only the stuff way up high will be good (although could be VERY good) and probably only for like a day until the sun kills it.

It's amazing the transition between winter and spring was like zero this year - it snowed and snowed and was really cold for like a month then suddenly people are climbing down at Gaillon in T-shirts. What the fuck?