Snow cover is still excellent in the French Alps and Pyrénées. Skiable snow can be found down to 1000m on many slopes with a 100cm of snow at 1500 meters altitude.

Ski tourers will be happy, the RD 530 road from St Christophe en Oisans has reopened for the spring season although poor weather has prevented helicopters from supplying refuges.

A Russian skier has been seriously injured after an avalanche hit the open piste she was skiing on yesterday afternoon.

A telemark skier has been killed after a fall of 150 meters in the Aravis mountains around 13h00 yesterday. Due to the weather conditions the rescue helicopter was unable to fly.

Anatomy of a snowboarding accident.

Last week we got a great team together to go and ski tour the powder that had fallen on the Ossau valley ... A team with a Guest Star.

A 69 year old ski tourer has been killed by an avalanche at the start of this afternoon in the Queyras Valley. The slide occured at the Col du Tronchet (2661m - 44.6122/6.84637).

A quick tutorial on how to create a route on PisteHors. We have a 1 to many relationship between Routes and Trip Reports.

There have been a cluster of avalanche incidents in the French Alps today following high winds and 50-100cm of fresh snow.

A 33 year old Czech skier, resident of Prague, has been killed skiing off piste at La Rosière in the Savoie. He was skiing with a friend who avoided the slide and was able to give the alert.