That does figure, thinking about it I’d have seen them going over my head if they were going that way. They weren’t heading anywhere in particular I could see.

Expensive trips if you take one, 299.- CHF per person for 45mins !

endlessride - 28 January 2013 02:16 PM

Snowed heavily last night, a wet 10cm at 800m, but I’m told a lighter 30-40cm above 1500m.

Same for us, possibly 20cm @ 1600m with snow from 800m. I’m trying to get some work done today looking at the mountains.

The warm weather blew in today. It was 15C in the valley north of Grenoble and warm enough to ski in a jumper. Off piste is very soggy with lots of avalanche activity in the afternoon. Avalanche risk is up to 3 in most areas of the Northern and Hautes Alpes tomorrow and dropping back a bit (3) in the Pyrenees. Risk is on all slope aspects.

Chris with an interesting style on the Pravouta N. side yesterday.

There was a big slide at St Francois Longchamp on the Homme du Beure. Readers will remember that the Lauziere lift was taken out by a full depth avalanche last year and this seems to be a repeat of that incident. The slide was 2 meters deep in places and stopped close to a piste. The Lauzière chair is closed. Important avalanche protection work was carried out on the site over the summer, it now looks more like a WW1 battlefield.

http://alpes.france3.fr/2012/11/26/des-paravalanches-saint-francois-longchamp-savoie-152245.html

In Switzerland a 62 year old ski tourer has been kiiled above Teysachaux-Moléson in the Fribourg canton yesterday (29/1/13). His body was only found at 1am after an extensive search.