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Fresh Snow in the Alps, October 16

By Sean Newsom | on October 16, 2012 | 6 Comments
Snow Report

Feast your eyes on the fresh snow in the Alps, Snowfiends! There’s a lot of it about: especially in the Italian Dolomites, as well as parts of Switzerland and Austria, where it snowed hard yesterday afternoon and all last night.

A quick ring-round the resorts this morning has unearthed some impressive figures. Above Engelberg in Switzerland, for example, there’s around 30cm of fresh snow at the top of the ski area, and the resort has decided to open its glacier for skiing on October 20 (after several postponements).

Meanwhile in Pontresina, just up the road from St Moritz in Switzerland, they reckon they’ve had 20cm in the valley, and 30-40cm on the mountains. On the Hintertux Glacier in the Austrian Tirol there’s 35cm of fresh snow. The deepest cover we’ve heard of so far is in Corvara in the Italian Dolomites – where there’s around 25cm of snow in town and “maybe 40-50cm” on the slopes above 2300m.

Fresh Snow in the Alps - October 16, 2012 | Welove2ski

Heavy snow near San Cassiano, in the Italian Dolomites. Photo: © altabadia.org

Fresh Snow in the Alps - October 16, 2012 | Welove2ski

The Brenta Dolomites, above Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, October 16 Photo: © funiviecampiglio.it

Fresh Snow in the Alps - October 16, 2012 | Welove2ski

Pontresina, near St Moritz, Switzerland, this morning. Photo: © Grand Hotel Kronenhof

Fresh Snow in the Alps, October 16 | Welove2ski

On the Pitztal Glacier, Austria, this morning. Photo: © tirolgletscher.com

Fresh Snow in the Alps - October 16, 2012 | Welove2ski

Snow above Samnaun in Switzerland, which shares its ski area with Ischgl. Photo: © ischgl.com

Fresh Snow in the Alps, October 16 | Welove2ski

Fresh snow on the back side of Mayrhofen’s ski area this morning. Photo: © tux.at

Fresh Snow in the Alps, October 16 | Welove2ski

Findeln, above Zermatt, Switzerland, October 16. Photo: © apartment-zermatt.ch

Fresh Snow in the Alps, October 16 | Welove2ski

Meribel, France, this morning. Photo: © meribel.net

Now comes the caveat. Don’t book an early-season ski trip just yet – unless you want to ski on a glacier. The snow looks lovely this morning: but there’s a thaw just around the corner, and the snowline will shortly be scurrying back uphill. That’s quite normal for this time of year. It’s only in November that we can expect to see the snow marching more steadily down to the valley floors (and even then not every November – remember last winter?).

Oh yes – it’s been snowing Scandinavia too. Below is how it was looking on the slopes above Are, Sweden this morning.

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Are, Sweden, October 16. Photo: © skistar.com

Meanwhile, in America, there’s good news this morning from Arapahoe Basin in Colorado. The high-altitude resort has announced that it will open its first trail to skiers tomorrow, October 17. It’s not the first resort in America to open for the season – that honour belongs to the pocket-sized ski area of Wild Mountain in Minnesota which got its lifts going on October 7. But it looks as though A-Basin will beat its great Colorado rival Loveland to the draw this year. Yesterday, Loveland announced that “We’re hoping Loveland Ski Area will open in the next week or so”.

Fresh Snow in the Alps, October 16 | Welove2ski

Work in progress. A-Basin expects to open for skiing on Wednesday. Photo: © www.arapahoebasin.com

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Sean Newsom

As well as founding Welove2ski in June 2007, Sean has written about skiing in the British press for 18 years. For the last 11, he’s also been the ski travel editor of The Sunday Times.

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