Ok so I have doing this for a while but the start of the winter season is always an exciting time. Whats the snow going to be like? What are the clients going to be like? etc, etc.....
This year has been simple, the clients have been great and given that the snow is not (great) we are still having fun. There is no natural snow below 2500m and what there is above that altitude is pretty sparse. We are skiing on the glacier which obviously means that there is natural snow, and it is holding up well. The weather forecast has been promising some precipitation for the last few days but all we have seen is a few wispy clouds and lots of blue skies and sunshine. HOWEVER!!!!! there is supposed something coming tonight, but not much sadly. Maybe more next week. I refuse to worry about it as I have no influence over the meteorological circumstances, contrary to the usual assumption that ski instructors are only slightly removed from the Almighty!
While it's unusual to be this snowless it's not unknown. I was reminiscing with a colleague about a season 20 years ago when we were based in the Portes du Soliel on the franco/swiss border and we did not get snow until the middle of January. We had to drive to Verbier each day to ski. Lets hope that it's not like that this season.
I am here in Tignes for the next two weeks and it will get progressively busier as we get nearer to the festive period and because we are the only snow in town, or even in the the valley, everyone who would be skiing in Les Arcs, La Plagne and maybe the 3 Valleys will be coming here. This weekend we normally get lots of Spaniards here due to a holiday so I am expecting to be dodging flying Barcelonians for a few days
Still, there are worse places to be!
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Sorry, I will try that again, without the spelling errors.
Hope you get some White stuff soon, snow dance in order.
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