Supreme Powder Skiing
Since my update on January 20th, the skiing has been as good as it gets. The weather cleared on Sunday, and we have had day after day of deep powder skiing under clear skies since. It has been fun to go further afield with each day, allowing the avalanche danger to come slowly down before [...]
80+cm of new snow in 6 days
After a month of beautiful and stable weather and avalanche conditions, over 80cm of fresh snow has fallen around my chalet in Verbier! What a sight to see. The foecast is calling for a sunny day Sunday, so hang on! Be carefull, as the avalanche situation will be critical.
Pure Verbier Off-Piste
Today was perhaps a-wee-bit-more than supremely fun in Verbier. With 45cm over the past 2 days, the pure Verbier off-piste was supreme! There was no wind with the 35cm of last night which meant we could jump upon the steeps with the security of slough slides all around. What FUN! Pelle and Bobby were laughing [...]
Supreme Skiing
The skiing quite simply does not get much better. With 120cm of snow coating these Alps at 2500 meters, and 40cm in the valley floors, skiing is supreme. Aside from the weekends, one has the mountain to ones self. The foehn, which blew all weekend, has ceased this morning in Verbier. That certainly changed the [...]
Winter Storms
With a series of October and November storms and sub-zero temperatures this weekend, winter has arrived in Verbier. We have a good base, 30-90cm deep with solid layers close to the ground. Hurricane force winds blew from the North Saturday, closing the lifts and wreaking havoc on the snow pack. Today was a bit of [...]
Verbier Opens
TeleVerbier has decided to run the FuniSpace for the next 2 weekends. What wonderful skiing this provided us in the little Lac des Vaux and Ruinettes. After the dump of Halloween, the warm Foehn set in for the past week. These warm temperatures and more wet snow at high elevations caked these hills with a [...]
Halloween ski to Orsieres
We put in another day of ski touring before the Foehn melted too much snow at lower elevations. This time, a 3 hours tour into the Entremont Valley. It was so wintry near the col de Chargerat! Losing sight of the slopes in moments of white out and wind brought sensations of winter front and [...]
Winter has arrived in Verbier
Though one never knows what the weather will be like in a few days, it was at least winter for us today. We skinned up to the Col de Marlene to find 45cm of fresh snow. It was a really fine walk into winter. Arriving at the top with a freshening SW wind, it truely [...]
Doug Coombs Steep Camp is back in Verbier!
Miles and Liz Smart are running these steep camps, and have asked me to help this year. We have ideal conditions, with lots of fresh snow and very few skiers in town. The avalanche situation is relatively low at level 2. This is allowing us to get on some steep terrain and talk about ski [...]
Italian Powdah!
We went south to sample some of the Italian stuff. And it was really nice to be there. Though it was cold on the upper slopes, maybe -30 with wind chill, the skiing was fine. We had an entire valley to ourselves, room enough to lay down some fresh tracks… The back of Mt.Fort was [...]
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