After enjoying some fantastic powder skiing over the past week, and with another 10–15 cm of fresh snow just fallen, conditions are about to shift. With sunny days and clear nights in the forecast, this powder will quickly transform into classic spring snow – at...
Spring snowpack (almost) with fresh snowfall on Saturday. Much more stabilised snowpack, although persistent weak layers remain…. Last weekend, after several days of wall-to-wall sunshine and clear nights, we were enjoying excellent spring snow conditions, with...
Rapid warming, wet-snow avalanches… and a hidden weak layer on the shady side of the mountain (north’ish facing slopes above 2200 m) We’ve had record-breaking accumulations of 2 to 3 metres of fresh snow over the last 10 days in the N French Alps and...
Fresh snow again in the Northern French Alps and surrounding areas this week, and plenty of it – great news, and fantastic snow quality! But this season we’re also dealing with an exceptionally unstable snowpack in many places. Weather forecasters are talking about...
Since the major mid-January storm cycle and the highly unstable conditions outlined in our last snow report, we’ve benefited from a series of small top-ups of fresh snow – around 5-10 cm at a time – over the past few days. More light snowfall is expected...
One of many recent avalanche incidents illustrating unstable off-piste conditions (no one hurt in this one, as far as we know) https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KyVzUMu2fiMVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Accidental avalanche on “Familliale” – Val...
