Tignes Val d’Isere Snow Report & Weather Forecast – 09.03.17
How warm? When I woke to the sound of drips on the velux at 7.30 this morning, I knew the temperature must be up but I hadn’t realised by how much. The road was awash as I walked down to the lifts. Compounded by rain showers in the middle of the night, the off piste snow has completely settled. There is some spring like snow around but the rest of it was not easily skiable. Not many off piste skiers today. The pistes are also soft, and were scuffing up a little. The avalanche work did go ahead in La Combe de La Davie, they did trigger a largish avalanche with one of the 7 blasts, but nothing too dramatic. So we missed our ace photo but the road opened an hour and a half early. However, yesterday the pisteurs in Tignes alone triggered 150 avalanches. Here is a photo of the Chardonnay bowl after what appears to have been a pretty huge slide. The debris was carried about 20m further than the Grand Huit chairlift. Wow.
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