Christmas week in Courmayeur is always an interesting time of year. The 2012 version has given us a season’s worth of conditions in just a few days. From fabulous powder to pouring rain and then from...
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Merry Christmas, Snowfiends! May all your holidays be long, relaxing, and thickly-strewn with good will, mince pies and the odd skiing-related present. And if you’re in the Alps at the...
In the northern and western Alps, December 2012 just keeps on giving. In many French and Swiss resorts it snowed every day at altitude from December 14 to December 19 – and the accumulations...
Its been bucketing down across the Alps recently and Courmayeur seems to have snagged more than its fair share of this fabulous snow that we’ve had to kick off the winter season. You could almost say...
Blimey, Snowfiends – it’s hard to keep up with all the changes in the Alpine weather at the moment. But the overall pattern is clear. Firstly – the frigid, wintry conditions that dominated the...
After driving the length of France and finally getting into the apartment that will be my winter home, I was pleased to find Arc 2000‘s free WiFi still functional. I was doubly pleased to find...
Skiing, this December, is believing. Despite glowing reports from much of the Alps, it’s hard to believe how good conditions are without experiencing them for yourself. Here on the Italian side...
As regular followers of our snow report pages will know, the season has got off to a spectacular start in the Alps. Blizzards, bitter cold, the occasional day of miraculous, uninterrupted sunshine –...
And still it snows…Today it’s the turn of Switzerland and western Austria to get the heaviest falls, as you’ll see from our Alpine snow forecast map, above. In places, 50cm is expected. In the...
This weekend saw the first big ski weekend of the Italian season – and in Courmayeur it really did start with a bang. Whilst waiting for the cable-cars to open on Saturday morning a rumour filtered...
