Tignes gets Buried under 1m of Snow!
December 17th, 2008 - Posted by: Powder Monkey
The early season snow just keeps coming. Tignes and Val d’Isere were the recent benefactors of a 1 metre dump of snow! Check out these shots of the snow mayhem on Monday.
Where did I park the car?
Tags: Tignes, Val d'Isere
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Skiing is Believing
December 7th, 2008 - Posted by: Powder Monkey
The Grands Montets sector of the Chamonix ski area opened a week ago for weekend skiing. Chamonix is the latest French ski resort to open ahead of schedule thanks to heavy and frequent snowfalls across the Alps in November. It began snowing again in Cham on Thursday and it dumped in earnest on Friday, so the snow up at Grands Montets was sure to be deep come the weekend. However, people-in-the-know know that the GM is not necessarily the best place to be on a powder day because the steep terrain attracts swarms of snow-hungry, powder-pillaging skiers and boarders. What’s more, Saturday’s forecast announced 0% visibility so, since there aren’t too many trees at GM to help you judge the lay of the land in a white-out, we decided to head further a field.
Tags: Chamonix, Courmayeur
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Ski Resorts Open Early across the French Alps!
November 28th, 2008 - Posted by: Powder Monkey
The French ski season is gathering momentum with more and more resorts announcing that they will open earlier than planned thanks to last weekend’s mega dump of snow. And it seems the snow wealth was evenly distributed right across the Alps.
It’s been a sub-zero week in Chamonix and the early snow is hanging around, even at resort level, so I will be skiing locally this weekend. The Compagnie du Mont Blanc, who manages the lifts in the valley, has announced a partial opening of the Grands Montets, and Chamonix’s Italian resort partner, Courmayeur has followed suit. Chamonix’s former French partner, Les Houches, is also due to open tomorrow.
Tags: Alpe d'Huez, Chamonix, Courmayeur, Deux Alpes, Les Houches, Meribel, Tignes, Val d'Isere, Val Thorens
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Be the First on the Slopes
November 26th, 2008 - Posted by: Powder Monkey
With all this early snow, 2008 is the year to ski in December. And there are some great pre-Christmas bargains out there. We have selected a couple of the best deals in the snow-sure resorts of Tignes and La Plagne.
Ski La Source boasts a portfolio of beautiful chalets in Montchavin & Les Coches. The two traditional alpine villages are lift-linked to the La Plagne ski area, where the snow is already stacking up. At the time of writing there are 75cm of snow in Plagne Centre (2000m), 110 cm on the Bellecote glacier and it looks, from these images, like there is no shortage of snow lower down.
Views from La Source’s Chalet Mathilde 25th November 2008
Tags: La Plagne, Tignes
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The Snow Lies Deep in Verbier in November
November 25th, 2008 - Posted by: Powder Monkey
Check out these amazing shots of the powder in Verbier on Sunday 23rd November. Nobody was in the mood to hang around for the photographer with the snow in optimum condition but in the end we were glad we were patient for five minutes while he set up for these great action shots. Thank you Chris.
photo: DiSabato
Tags: Verbier
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