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Snow snippets: 05 November

5th November 2009, by Chris Gill

Tignes sparkling in new snow

• Verbier to open 7 November
• Cortina sets another date
• Tignes refreshed

There has been significant snowfall across the Alps this week, with western Switzerland doing rather well – alongside Italy’s Dolomites. And more resorts are taking advantage of this week’s snowfalls to open some lifts for skiing and boarding.

Televerbier has just confirmed plans to open the lifts at Lac des Vaux this weekend 7/8 November. Daily lift passes will cost SF35, or SF32 after 11.30am.
Conditions permitting, Verbier will be open weekends until the season officially starts at the end of the month.

Cortina has also announced plans to open early – two weeks, in fact. If all goes to plan they would like to fire up the lifts in the Faloria sector next weekend (13/14/15 November).
As much as 80cm fresh snow feel across the Marmolada glacier on Monday and Tuesday. The resorts are reporting a high of about 50cm in the Val Gardena. Snow also fell as low as 800m for a time too.

What a relief! Over in Tignes, the ski area has been transformed: one local rated the snowfall ‘the most they had ever seen at this time of the year, in 18 years’ – well, they certainly needed it after such a long, dry spell. It’s cold enough on the glacier to preserve the 30cm or so of fresh powder up there right now – and the base cover has risen to 50cm.

Filling in nicely in Cortina earlier this week

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