I am not sure exactly, I know my friends had a half-hearted plan to go up the Alaninhorn from the top of the underground train but within 30 minutes realized the snow was sketchy and 20 minutes later...

^^^
Knew I should of gone to Zinal

A friend was in Saas-fee and reported good conditions. However, he witnessed a group of skiers get caught in an avy and take a long slide. No one was hurt or...

Did a ski tour at Arolla in the end.
toured up the piste to the top of the highest lift (resort closed so a good tour, met 1 person)

Rock garden with artificial snow ice-crust at the bottom 300m...

Cool, will let you know.

I have several friends but we may be missing a car.

So what do western CH people think for the weekend?

I know zinal probably offers the best conditions but I may need to take public transport so was wondering if Vebier is worth it. Last week I...

I'm undecided on Saturday or Sunday. For sure I will go Saturday if there is pow, but if not then I prefer Sunday.

Anyone with any good info on conditions at Zinal or Verb. I might just go to...

As a heads up, me and some friends are training for the Patrouille de Glaciers and go to les Paccots tuesdays and thursdays, leaving Lausanne at 5:30 to 6:30.


Let me know if anyone is interested.

ESE from 1200m to 1600m where we turned back.

Low down there was nearly no base, except 2-3cm of very poorly bonded sugary snow, could be a hoar frost. The fresh snow fell without wind in the...

Went for a tour near col de Mosses and was sketched out. Really poor bonding between the new snow (30-40cm) and an old base.

We hugged the trees, and even boot packed through some forest to avoid...

heavy snow in Lausanne. Fun watching the cars out my window.

More snow in Lausanne than nendaz, nd everywhere is damn cold.

That is all.

Went to nendaz Friday night to stay in our chalet (rented for the season between 10 people as a base camp)

Awoke late saturday to cloud and light snow. Skinned form Siviez to Cabane Tortin below...

Things haven't changed much. i might go for a fitness ski tour up the mont-fort.

pitty i'm in Brussels this week, but lucky return for the weekend.

Thats the problem. I was wondering if there was any snow at SSB, perhaps following the piste will minimize rocks.

I have itchy feet and need to ski or tour, but not sure if I will go all the way to Zinal for some pisten.

yeah, I think we did a repeat of last year, Zinal opening. Pity this year there was way less snow, and the forecast is grim. I guess we were spoiled last year and have top relaise it is still very...

Chicken, I only hit a rock every 2nd turn down there (not quite me in the photo, I got 2nd tracks...).

we traversed over to the other tow (all across the ridge), following the piste down gave...

Skied Verbier yesterday, was a fun day and was good to get back on skis. Some high cloud but sun most of the day except last 90 minutes. I tried a few lines away from the piste and managed to keep...

I will probably go this weekend, legs are twitching and I need a break after working every weekend for months.
A good time to ski with the GF.

I fully expect piste only on the blue lac-de-vaux...

CH ROLL CALL:

Verbier may open this weekend, they decide tomorrow 6pm

Thanks Al, seems to be working.

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http://www.sport-conrad.com/

Both companies have good equipment, excellent service, both have english speaking staff, will remove appropriate taxes etc. Sport-conrad...

Free paper forecasts snow to 2000m on Friday. Not checked any real weather forecasts but seems plausible.

yes, i do. would sell for reasonable money. PM me
I'm based in Lausanne

I know a few bits around Champery but have never ventured far - since I've been in CH the snow levels were normally too high.

whats the word for Tomorrow in Western CH?

PDS?

Snowing in Lausanne at lake level.

Seems yet again the storm is colder than forecast.

Did a night time raid on the pow stashes of the infamous Les Paccots (about 30min from Lausanne) last night. Dry when we left Lausanne at 6pm, by the time we hit the free-way it was puking massive...

Yes, it is always scary seeing loads of uninformed teenagers, but even adults, without any safety gear, no avalanche knowledge or etiquette, skiing all over the mountain.

We tentatively skied 1 at...

Skiing at Champery/crosets was like skiing in a war zone with the blasting going on. Only a few aspects seemed to slide (50 degree below steep rock faces with major wind loading on a grass base)....

http://www.slf.ch/lawineninfo/schneeinfo/hsm/index_EN

Snow depth percentage of long-term mean values
PDS: 400%
Crans-Montana: 532%
Verb: 279%

Most of CH at 200-300% of mean snow pack for the...

The weekend was so, so. I recommend to head to the rockies as there is never much powder in the Alps.

Some pics & vids of carving the groomers to come.

Ovronnaz on Saturday was good, sun affected but the right aspects were deep. A lot of slabs slid a little, making for some gaping crevasses to the grass below - although everything had stabilized. We...

In the matin bleu this morning.
1 confirmed dead. snowboarder below the Becca D'Audon.
Paper says 200m wide, 1000m long. Pics make it look huge. The rescue team thought it was too dangerous so...

I even lost a glove liner there. so so sad. What a nasty place.

Sunday at Verbier is my guess.

Mutually Agreed Destruction. (read WIKipedia etc.)

I think we are all in agreement that the whole Alps will get annihilated.

I think the problem for us working class heroes slaving away to the...

Arctic blast forecast for Friday.

Zinal was excellent. I had to look after my GF for 90 minutes upon arrival (which I knew would be a bad idea) . I joined the lower t-bar lift line just as it was ballooning. Half-way up the t-bar it...

OK, I'll be in Zinal tomorrow with a few others. I'll be riding Dynastar 8800 with Freerides Plus.

I was just planning the same thing.

Will see who else is interested from my end.
Sunday I might go for an easy tour if possible but know idea where this would be possible.

EDIT: Any news on...

I'll be at Verb this morning with my rocks skis (very small, skinny dyny omnicarve 10s). Will ask for change from a nickle

First hint at snow from next Tuesday-wednesday.

I concur.

I may go to verbier on Saturday or Sunday. Possibly climbing the other day.



Anyone know if there is any cheap ski rental in Verbier that would be open for my other half?

Looks like I made the right decision anyway and did some climbing.

Tim

I might take my GF up there on sunday for her 3rd day on skis. A good opportunity to give her some lessons and "quality time" before the real winter arrives and she gets abandoned.

If you go...

Foëhn wind looks like it might do some damage to the snow this weekend.

Big cold wet cloud is blown by wind into mountain. Wind blows cloud higher up mountain where it is colder. Colder air causes cloud to precipitate (for various reasons). This precipitation amount...

An early start from Lausanne and a few if us grabbed the first bin up the Grand montets allowing us to climb the Aiguille de Argentiere (390xxm) then ski the Glacier de Millieu/ couloir

As an...