Yup, the clouds gone, the rain’s a distant memory, and the sun’s going to be out all day.
Could be worse…
Billy Connolly is a wise man indeed, and would fit in here quite well today.
You see, the snow line yesterday was below resort, but it’s drifted higher over night, so this morning it was only snowing at the top of the tree-line.
But when you think about it, most of the skiing in Verbier is above the tree-line. So not a brilliant view in resort through the spitting rain, but no real drama.
But get to Ruinettes and it’s snowing pretty hard – La Chaux was getting a real pasting when we got up there.
And the level’s dropping – I’ve just skied down and whilst there’s drizzle in resort, it’s snowing just above Chez Dany.
But the big news is that it’s the ES Adaptive fund raising week next week, raising money to buy disabled ski equipment for charity. So more soon…
Yes, we’ve had a precipitation cornucopia today.
The overnight snow (about 6 inches in places on the piste) gave way to rain in the afternoon (and we don’t mind rain, as long as it stops just above resort), then the nice people at snow-forecast.com told us – in fact, as good as promised – that we’d get snow at the weekend.
Well, maybe not in resort, but at mid-station.
So, don’t hold your breath. But do cross your fingers.
OK, I’ve questioned the snow forcasting community a few times, and perhaps been guilty of the odd libel regarding the accuracy of their predictions, but they are very confidently predicting snow right now, and I’m inclined to hope they’re right this time…
Rubbish if it’s cheese. Rubbish if it’s in a ski resort.
But the good news is that snow-forecast say there is loads of snow on the way, although it could be yet another over-exaggeration of almost Oli D-esque proportions…
http://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Verbier/6day/bot
A simple formula but it works. You can even improve on it:
cold x (snow + sunshine) – wind = genius.
Which is what we got today.
And if you ever wondered if all those noisy, messy snow cannons worked, have a look at this (underneath the ice and snow it’s the old disused chair lift from the Medran car park, and it got in the way of a snow cannon on overnight):
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