26th Feb: It's dumping!

We've had over half a metre in the last 36 hours, and it's showing no sign of stopping. Really nice snow, really powdery. I was playing down towards the trees today, and was getting constant face-shots for the first time since I've been in Tignes! Awesome. Apparently it's due to do this all week as well...

I'd love to post a picture, but it's just pointless at the moment. Rumour has it that we've got a few hours sunshine tomorrow, so I'll try and get a few snaps then. This is definitely the arrival of the March storm - the same thing happened last year. Bring it on....

18th Feb: Cloud cover, good piste conditions

So another busy week dawns with a nice snow pack, and cloudy conditions. My hangover and the lack of decent light prevented my getting on the snow today, but we've had a couple of epic powder days recently. The pistes are in great nick, but the snow offpiste is now quite crusty and nasty.

This combined with some major temperature and wind variations forecast has put me off the off-piste for the time being. However, it's nice and soft around the edges for playing and trying tricks. I came so close to my first 540 the other day. Ah well, it'll come. More snow may hit us late this week, so fingers crossed it keeps coming and it sets us up for yet another super-long season like last year.

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14th Feb: Whiteout again!

Everything cleared up for about two hours yesterday afternoon, which resulted in the best run of the season down to busstop. It was also clear for about an hour this morning, which resulted in a rather painful 540-to-faceplant on an apparently soft piste. Ouch! However, it's now 1500, and it's puking again. Due to go clear tomorrow.

The snow that's dropped so far is classic AK-pack - it snowed 2 feet and all stuck together! Avalanche risk on any normal face is far less than would be usually expected, but we have got some MASSIVE windslabs up to a metre thick around the place. Someone triggered one right next to the Tichot piste yesterday. He was on his own, had no equipment on him, and was buried for 4 hours before he was reported missing and his body dug out. Don't mess with these slabs - they're scary as hell.

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12th February: Photos

So here's a couple of pictures, one of what Lavachet looks like right now, and one of Bungee shredding Le Sache valley on Friday. Happy days...
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12th February: It's PUKING!

So we had about 20cms on Thursday, and then it went bluebird on Friday. We had a great day, although the snow was a little shallow in places. The pack was fairly stable (except on high-northish slopes), so with mininal avalanche risk we went out and ripped. Since then we've been working too hard to go out, but it's now Monday and it is absolutely puking out here. Andy, who runs metcheck.com, reckons that today we could take a direct hit from a triple-point depression which could give us up to a metre of snow today alone!!! Unfortunately my camera is out of batteries so I can't show you what we got up to on Friday, or what it looks like right now. Just think of white, and lots of it....

Come play!

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5th February: Snow Coming!

You can tell we're getting bored... the picture above is of Tristan from the Loop going huge on last night's floodlit session. If he goes any bigger we're going to have to extend the landing somehow, because he was just about clearing it.
Anyway, the snow conditions are good, if a little hard. The warm temperatures have been resulting in slush / spring conditions on some aspects in the afternoons, but it doesn't seem to be melting too badly. The important news is that we're due quite a lot of snow in the next five days. None of the weather models seem to be able o agree with each other about how much and when, but one thing is for sure - it's on it's way!
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