Zermatt

25/1/09 Weather Report Zermatt

25 January 2009 by European Snowsport

Sunday:
After a mixed weather day yesterday, today appears bright during the morning. The afternoon should be blue bird, with the evening bringing some more flutters of fresh snow. Wrap up warm as the temperature will be well below freezing dropping to -17 at the top lift station with fresh winds. Keep your eyes open as you may well be able to find some secret powder stashes remaining after the great snow we’ve had the past few days.

Monday:
Monday will continue as Sunday left off with light snow falling throughout the day. The temperature will remain well below freezing not rising above -4 in town and dropping as low as -17 at the top. Make sure you wear your low viz lenses to be able to make out the powdery bumps!

Victory

6 April 2008 by European Snowsport

Yesterday saw the return of the Carlsberg High 5, so lots of people in free white helmets and green race bibs were hammering about about resort ‘training’ (many of whom might not quite have been of the standard that their swagger suggested).

That said, there were some great riders and skiers on display, including world cup legends in the pro catagory.

Now, we always have a few instructors who enter, and largely give a good account of themselves. However, this year, the Ackner family took it upon themselves to take it to the next level. OK, just Em, really.

And impressively young Emily came first in the women’s snowboarding – an overwhelmed bystander, Mr Oli Pinnochio Dannat, said “She was amazing – way better than all the other girl riders and most of the blokes”. High praise indeed, for someone who’s world view largely consists of him at the top, and everyone else’s achievements some distance beneath him…

And this is what Champion Ackner Jnr looked like:

Snow, sun, warm, cold: a bit of everything

27 March 2008 by European Snowsport

Easter has turned out to be a bit of a changeable affair – one minute you’re freezing in a white-out and regretting getting out of bed that day, the next you’re baking, turning crimson and wishing you’d put on suncream.

And so it continues – the snow is brilliant, especially up high, and we had yet another fall last night so the snow that was melted on the trees has been replaced, making everything look laaaaarvely.

And when the clouds clear it’s decidedly above average.

Apart from that, we’re all still feeling pretty chuffed that the school raised 26,000 CHF for disabled skiing last week, and we’ve also all been sitting around in the t-bar debating whether or not snow-forecast.com are over-predicting snowfalls on purpose just to mess with our heads, or if they just get it wrong a lot.

Apres Ski: The evidence

28 December 2007 by European Snowsport

We’ve finally wrestled with technology and dug out the pictures from the Farinet Apres Ski opening night, and even got a picture of Kato’s new headgear following his ‘upside down dancing’ exhibition, lucky you…

The boys try to fix the sliding roof…