You can choose. There’s almost always a choice of avoiding avalanche terrain, AND still having fun when off-piste and ski touring. Avalanche terrain is defined as areas with steep slopes of 30° steepness above, around or below you. When you’re...
A varied week of weather in the N French Alps. After colder temperatures and snowfall on Sunday, Monday will be sunny and milder with a Southerly weather system coming through. Snow showers at high altitude throughout the rest of the week. Snow conditions in N French...
Photo Thanks to Trevor Godfrey. A quick off-piste and ski touring TOP TIP is to avoid steep slopes above ‘terrain traps’. During many ski seasons, more than half of avalanche deaths involve ‘terrain traps’. Simply avoiding ‘terrain...
A few snow showers coming through on Monday – starting later in the day – off and on through Tuesday and into the wee hours of the morning Wednesday, bringing up to 20-40 cm of fresh snow at around 2000 m in much of the N French Alps and surrounding...
Plenty of fresh snowfalls coming up for the N French Alps and surrounding areas, interspersed with a couple of clear, calm days, during this new year week. Happy 2024 everyone! Fresh snowfall forecast this week will be greatly appreciated by off-piste and ski touring...
A sunny start to the week with temperatures way above average for the time of season. Cloudier with very light snowfall from Wednesday. Snow depths above 1800/2000 m are very good for this time of season, and there’s some fantastic off-piste & ski touring...
