Following and complementing our post this past Friday, “An exceptional avalanche situation, … in the Northern French Alps and surrounding areas – worth noting, following and learning from. ” The following video in Tignes, France, is of a...
… in the Northern French Alps and surrounding areas – worth noting, following and learning from. “But”, you may say, “Every year there’s a weak layer – it’s always there”. Yes, but every year ‘the weak...
Thank you to whoever took the video of Le Haut des Suisses in Courchevel. It is very instructive and helps to build awareness… which helps to reduce accidents! Here we see some skiers entering an area that is normally pisted and patrolled, but is not now due to...
This is a sign of things to come throughout the French Alps and surrounding areas…. On the subject of off-piste and ski touring, here at Henry’s Avalanche Talk we never want to frighten people from going out into the backcountry because there’s...
More unsettled weather before settling down a bit from Tuesday in the Northern French Alps ! It’s been an epic week of off-piste skiing, with arguably the best snow conditions of the whole season! Following some resort level rain on Thursday, we just had another...
Unsettled weather and plenty of snowfall in the Northern French Alps next week ! After a mild sunny start to the current week, it’s now back to winter with a vengeance! From Tuesday night, we had another period of extremely stormy weather, with howling NW winds...
