Snow for the Euros.

[vertigo]

Started snowing in the village again this morning, but freezing line was pretty high yesterday - 1700-1800m. Still thinish, but building.

In La Grave was snowing till i went to sleep, but turned to rain sometime in the night. The lifts closed because of the avy risk. The 2nd time in 3 days.

[Roo]

Looks like the freezing level went up to around 1800-1900m. You might be OK down to P1 when it opens.

[Hayduke]

Just got back from a day skiing with the beautiful people in Courchevel. Full on storm skiing but got my first pow of the season down in the trees near La Tania. It was nuking by the time I left.

Any of you hear a couple of months ago about a Russian brothel getting shut down in Courchevel 1850? Millions of € found along with a stack of guns, 25 hookers arrested along with about 15 mafia types. Well, I found out yesterday EVERYONE was let off & the € returned to them. Seems they didn't want to lose the Russian tourist trade.

[Roo]

I bet Jockeys was money in those conditions. Boot top, knee deep?

[stantonbum1]

Chatted to a mate in Ischgl yesterday evening it was raining there at the time. I also spoke to some friends in Scheffau am Wilden Kaiser they were saying 50cm were forecast with the snowline at 1000m - I have my doubts about the snowline.

[jskierpx]

rain rain go away

[Hayduke]

About boot-deep mostly with a few deeper patches here and there....(if Herbs asks it was nipple deep). It was pretty heavy lower down but blower higher up. Just a shame I couldn't see shit out of the trees. Late morning they shut all the higher lifts due to the wind.

[vertigo]

Looks like the freezing level went up to around 1800-1900m. You might be OK down to P1 when it opens.

i hope so, altho the crazy 3000m freezing level on sunday should fck anything good that's left on the mountain!!!

there can be few places on earth more fcking boring than la grave when the lift is shut...

[Roo]

Mobile knocking shops are the answer.

[vertigo]

Mobile knocking shops are the answer.

i think you're on to something there... you should set it up! i once had an idea for a dating agency for people with aids! but everyone took the piss and told me i was a twat, but i still reckon it would have been a winner.

[Incompetent Boob]

Hey, while we are on the topic of snow and whorehouses, anyone feel like telling me the better German websites for finding cheap international airfares?

Cheers.

[Roo]

i hope so, altho the crazy 3000m freezing level on sunday should fck anything good that's left on the mountain!!!

It's not all bad. It might help consolidate things a bit ready for the next onslaught on Wednesday.

[Roo]

In fact, it's shaping up quite nicely...

[davidof]

The avalanche risk is still Extreme in the Savoie with closed roads (should be fun for the last big transfer day of the winter). The skies will clear over the course of Saturday and Sunday will be sunny but too warm (zero iso 2800-3000) with wonderful blue skies. The temptation will be to head off piste onto the acres of virgin, albeit heavy, snow however the best preserved snow (where it has not been too warm or rained on) will be north facing bowls and there could be some major avalanches. A beacon will be little more than a fashion accessory if you get caught in one of these. Prudence.

[hemas]

a beacon is never a fashion statement.

Seems like you haven't hang around much of the Swedish Wannabee Skibums residing in the Alps.

They never hit the afterski without a beacon and cramps&axes... Too bad, they weren't even skiing that day.

[Roo]

there could be some major avalanches. A beacon will be little more than a fashion accessory if you get caught in one of these. Prudence.

I am going to buy my way out of trouble. You can never have too much gear.

[powders]

Shitloads of rain this morning in Cham, warm too (+7C now)... snowlevel was forecast to be 1700mt this morning, but it seems a bit optimistic, judging by lack of snow on trees almost all the way up to plan praz (2000mt)... grands montets, brevent, le tour closed.

looking good for wednesday though

[bbirtle]

Shitloads of rain this morning in Cham, warm too (+7C now)... snowlevel was forecast to be 1700mt this morning, but it seems a bit optimistic, judging by lack of snow on trees almost all the way up to plan praz (2000mt)... grands montets, brevent, le tour closed.

Sigh, yeah I hate to put in some bad vibes, but I can't say I'm really profiting from this big storm. Wednesday when we ran into each at Flegere was the last day I even bothered to venture onto the slopes.

Are you finding some good stuff? I could use some motivation and a plan. A friend of mine was super jazzed up to go out today and in the end he skiied a bunch of slush at Flaine in the rain while I slept in and then watched the rain from my home office window.

Tomorrow should be good though... mostly sunny anyway. Will be a matter of finding the powder stashes and not getting buried by them.

[bbirtle]

Update: Clear skies this evening in Chamonix and gave me a warm fuzzy feeling watching them bomb Brevent and Flegere by helicopter. Forecast is for sun tomorrow... let me repeat: "tomorrow should be good!"

[subtle plague]

certainly not in flegere.
we just came back from our disaster trip to the valais/france (damn snow level/ and or avie danger. i need a storm OR high freezing, i can't handle both.). and seeing cham this morning myself i'd give you some powder chances on the top of montets or the aguille itself.
everything south faced will be crap with this 3000m freezing level. (if it isn't already fucked by the rain up to 2000+)

[hemas]

again, we can only hope...[fingers-xd emoticon]

I sacrificed my knee to Ullr, so this spring is going to be off the chart. Be prepared to ski well into June.

Oh, and since I won't most likely be skiing before next fall... It's going to be even more dry than this season... again, sorry for the inconvenience.

[Idris]

Rain crust to 2200m wind fucked above that. Scoured in places, windloaded like never before in others. 2m high crown walls inbounds...its scary out there...

[Roo]

Look on the bright side. The sun is out!

[JoeStrummer]

I will be in Cham in less than 2 weeks, then on to Zermatt, then to the Silvretta. Following this thread is like being on some sort of emotional roller coaster!

[bbirtle]

Rain crust to 2200m wind fucked above that. Scoured in places, windloaded like never before in others. 2m high crown walls inbounds...its scary out there...

March 4 ===> Les Grands Montets in the morning (absolute shit) Glaciar Rond in the afternoon (MONEY, cha-ching!).

Actually all of the vallee blanche looks awesome, although a shocking amount of tracks there from today. Conditions on the Rond were knee deep light powder that continued as such for 800m+ and didn't get bad even back toward the midstation.

TR coming soon as we took a few decent photos...

Les GM today confirmed my belief that there is no reason whatsoever to ski at Les Grands Montets, at any time, during any conditions. EXCEPT if you use the top lift to do a long ski tour.

Our group managed to mantain a very positive vibe so battling the queues didn't bring us down. But my god, all the worst things you could find at a resort! Horrible attitudes from the pow hounds, pushing and shoving, massive crowds, nearly ran into another freerider in an off piste bowl there was so much traffic... and a real life fist fight broke out between two people in the Bochard queue right in front of us!