Merry Christmas, winter in full swing
Merry Christmas everyone.
The winter is now in full swing all the ski resorts are now open with reasionable cover. The snow pack is pretty complicated so be carefull out there. We have had some very cold conditions with a shallow snow pack created depth hoar then fresh snow on high winds. A colleague mentioned that he had never seen so many avalanche crown walls in the Chamonix valley before. I have been out on the skis a bit enjoying a couple of great days in Val dIsere with Kates brother Charles finding some good off piste then Kate and I went to La Grave for the weekend. Cover there was thin but good, the traverses to P1 and the ski to the valley were pretty thin so look out for rocks covered in a thin layer of snow. Have a great festive season.