Fresh Snow and Fat Skis
January 25th, 2012 - Posted by: Powder Monkey
It’s another absolutely fabulous week in the French Alps with blue skies on the back of more heavy snow. The below sign post snapped on the hill on Monday says it all and was too good not to share. For non-linguists this translates as:
60 – 80 cm of fresh snow. Get your fat skis out!
Take advantage of Snowjet’s last minute ski flight deals and you could be enjoying snow conditions like these next week. All Stansted to Chambery flights departing this Saturday (28th January) have been reduced to £49 one way.
Tags: Chambery Flights, Ski Flights, Snow Conditions
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Incredible Conditions in the Alps
December 21st, 2011 - Posted by: Powder Monkey
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In case the media haven’t been as quick to report on the recent deluge of snow in the Alps as they were to shout about the lack of it a month ago, we thought you’d like to know what incredible amount of snow has fallen over the last 3 weeks. Winter began in earnest on 1st December with the first big snowfall of the season and since then it’s just kept coming. At the weekend alone up to 2 metres of new snow fell in resorts across France and Switzerland. With the snowline well below 1000m even lower altitude resorts, which can be a gamble so early in the season, are in great shape. The remarkable amount of fresh powder means that ski resorts local to Chambery and Sion airports are now well and truly set up for the season and skiers holidaying in the next couple of weeks are likely to enjoy the best snow conditions they have ever experienced in the European Alps! And you could be among them. Snowjet have flight availability in the next fortnight including flexible dates over the holiday period. Don’t miss out – book your seat today. |
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Tags: Chambery Flights, Sion Flights, Snow Conditions
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Snow is Falling
December 6th, 2011 - Posted by: Powder Monkey
At the very same time that the British media picked up on the lack of early season snow in the Alps it began snowing and hasn’t stopped. It’s been snowing in our favourite French and Swiss ski resorts since Friday and it’s still falling as I post this, transforming the mountains into slidey playgrounds.
Tignes Transformed 5th Dec 2011
Tags: Flights to Chambery, Flights to Sion, Ski Resorts near Chambery, Ski Resorts near Sion, Snow Conditions, Snow Forecast
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October Snow
October 9th, 2011 - Posted by: Powder Monkey
This weekend there were some more promising early signs of a bumper snow year in the making with snow falling down to 1300m across the French and Swiss Alps. It was a sudden but welcome change in weather for winter lovers, following several days of mid 20s temperatures during the week. As these photos, taken in Saint Gervais at 1500m, show summer is well and truly over in the Alps. Roll on the ski season.
Foreground - St Gervais' brand new 6 seater chair. Background - Snow on Flaine's peaks.
Tags: Snow Conditions, Snow Forecast, Weather
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Knee Deep Powder in Tignes
November 12th, 2010 - Posted by: Powder Monkey
With just a month to go until the ski season kicks off, things are beginning to look good snow-wise in the higher altitude resorts. I can personally testify to that fact that conditions in Tignes are already superb. I headed over there on Wednesday night which proved to be a bit of a mission on snowy roads. It was miserable and wet in Bourg Saint Maurice down in the valley, but by the time I’d wound my way up half the hairpins to Tignes it was dumping with snow. There weren’t many cars on the road, but those that had braved the weather were snow-chaining up from a few hundred metres before the Tignes – Val d’Isere fork (around 1750m of altitude, just before the damn) because a good few cms of snow were accumulating. The Subaru’s low ratio gearbox was enough to plough me the rest of the way up to Tignes 2100m though.
Tags: British Ski Instructor in Tignes, Skiing in November, Snow Conditions, Tignes, Tignes Flights
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