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Val Thorens weather and webcams

Wednesday, 03. 28. 2007  –  Category: Snowboarding

Val Thorens is booked! So with the final trip of the season lined up, I’m checking the weather forecasts, snow reports and web cams daily now and hoping the conditions are going to hold.

Chamonix Valley

Friday, 03. 16. 2007  –  Category: Snowboarding

Quick post to give you a heads up about a new site set up my an old mate of mine. Chamonix Valley.com is a comprehensive guide to Chamonix.
Sections worth your time if you’re heading to Cham’ include the Chamonix blog with regular snow reports from around the valley, (like this one from Brévent/Flégère), Chamonix [...]

Romanian snowboarders no-snow protest

Wednesday, 01. 17. 2007  –  Category: Snowboarding

A group of snowboarders held a protest in Romania recently about the lack of snow.
Romanian snowboarders blocked traffic by staging a protest in front of the national weather institute to complain about the lack of snow.
The sit down protest in the capital Bucharest only ended when weathermen told them their complaint “would be passed on [...]

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow… (artificially)

Monday, 12. 18. 2006  –  Category: Snowboarding

With the cold weather finally upon us, not much real snowfall to speak of and the busy Christmas holidays to deal with, isn’t it about time we saw the snow cannons in action?
Morzine today is starting to resemble the golf course it was looking like a couple of weeks back. The snowfall was short-lived [...]

Morzine weather and webcams

Thursday, 12. 7. 2006  –  Category: Snowboarding

In three weeks time I’m off to Morzine for ten days, staying over New Year. Really looking forward to it. There’s a good group of us going, including my girlfriend who will be snowboarding for the first time. Good on her! The only thing we need now is some snow…
So, I’ve [...]

Cervinia/Zermatt weekend snowboarding trip

Tuesday, 11. 28. 2006  –  Category: Snowboarding

After much anticipation, planning and build up, 12 of us went for a long weekend in Cervinia this weekend gone.
Whilst we stayed in Cervinia, most of the snowboarding was to be had in Zermatt, which joins the Cervinia ski area on the Italian/Swiss boarder, so taking your passport out on the hill is a must!
In [...]

4 days til pow in Cervinia and Zermatt

Monday, 11. 20. 2006  –  Category: Snowboarding

Am off to Cervinia on Thursday night after work and plan on riding both sides of the Italian/Swiss border in Cervinia and Zermatt.
According to Snow-Forecast.com there is a load of snow on its way over the coming days. The only potential problem is the risk of lifts being closed due to strong winds.
On the [...]

Zermatt weather and webcams

Tuesday, 11. 7. 2006  –  Category: Snowboarding

I’ve got a snowboarding weekend in Zermatt coming up in a couple of weeks. The season has barely started so I’ve been keeping a close watch on the snow forecasts and the web cams.
I thought I’d share these with you in case anyone else is heading over, and give me easy access to the [...]