Where to Ski And Snowboard

Happy New Year

1st January 2012, by Chris Gill

[Thanks to Tignes tourism for the photograph]

As we start the new year, so the Alps has been blessed with more heavy snowfall. Just look at these pictures from Tignes and Chamonix on New Year’s Eve!

Skiers and snowboarders celebrated the arrival of 2012 with firework and torchlit displays and live music … and a lot of snow. Perhaps too much of a good thing in some cases, as our report from the Trois Vallées shows. And the snow was falling heavily in the Swiss Alps, Italy’s Aosta Valley and in Austria’s Tirol too – where they have received more than was forecast a few days ago. It does mean that avalanche risks have risen significantly again, so take care.

In St Anton, for example, the snow is piling up; another 10cm overnight, 30cm in the past couple of days. There is now a 110cm of snow at resort level, despite it still being relatively mild at 4 degrees this morning. Verbier has another 10-30cm of new snow and it is still falling … The Portes du Soleil reports another 20cm on the Swiss side, and a part-cloudy day to start the New Year.

Where to Ski and Snowboard would like to wish you all a happy and prosperous new year. We are grateful for the continued support of our advertisers and readers, many of whom have been with us since the first edition of our resort guide book in 1994; and to those who joined us in 2011.

We hope you, the reader and web visitor, will in turn support our advertisers too.

Best wishes to all for 2012. Enjoy your skiing and riding this season.