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10 Reasons Why We Loved This Week’s Storm

Over a metre of snow fell in parts of the Alps. Here's our pick of the photos.

The forecast was spot on. A big October storm came a-calling in the Alps, and it snowed and snowed and snowed, especially in Austria. Here’s some of the evidence….

This time-lapse photo-sequence from Val Thorens


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This comfy chairlift cushion in Imst

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Photo: imst.at

Thursday’s snowman from the Hintertux Glacier

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Photo: Hintertuxer Gletscher/Facebook

This team of World Cup piste-bashers above Soelden

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Photo: Soelden/Facebook

This Pitztal parking conundrum

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Photo: Pitztaler Gletscher/Facebook

This ruler in Lech

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Photo: Lech-Zuers/Facebook

This sun terrace on the Nordkette

10 Reasons Why We Loved This Week's Storm | Welove2ski
Photo: Nordkette/Facebook

This Alpbach summer house

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Photo: alpbachtal.at

These early Christmas-tree decorations in St Anton

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Photo: St Anton/Facebook

This Tignes sunrise

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Photo: tignes.net

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About the author

Sean Newsom

As well as founding Welove2ski in June 2007, Sean has written about skiing and snowboarding in the British press for 28 years. For the last 20 of them, he’s also been the ski travel editor at The Sunday Times.

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