I know, we normally run lots of stories with impressive pictures of snow and skiing around this time of year but don’t panic – it’s still very, very early and even in a good year the only area open is Lac des Vaux. Which stops being fun rather quickly. The real stuff only starts rolling in December.

Anyway, the good news is that there has been snow up there, too high for lac des Vaux but the view at sunset from the Mont Fort webcam was particularly epic. And here are a couple of snaps to whet your whistle and prove that it’s always snowing somewhere…

 

Yes, it looks like we haven’t got any skiing in store this weekend as there’s not enough snow at the top, but we are forecast some this weekend and there are all sorts of swirling menacing things somewhere over the Atlantic and they should be heading our way soonish. Hopefully a lot and soon.

But what we do have is a list of the lift opening times for this season, which is rather handy. And it takes our minds off the fact we’re not going to be skiing this weekend…

Yes, it’s gone a bit quiet on the precipitation front in Verbier. We had that snow the week before last, and then we went to the Ski Show in London, and when we got back, well, there wasn’t any snow in town.

Now, that’s normal, after all we’ve got a bit used to the amazing early snow of the last few years and have perhaps forgotten that we’ve had winters in the last five years where people have been happily playing golf at the start of December. So it’s the end of October and we’ve had two nice big, early falls. But now it’s quiet.

If this was a Western we’d all be saying it’s too quiet and we should get the wagons in a circle. Or something like that.

Anyway, to take your mind off the snow, and to give you a little dose of stupidity, we thought you might like to see the latest GoPro video…

Yes, as predicted the sun is back out and revealing the extent of the snow.

Now RHS will get all cynical and tell you it’ll never last. He’s probably right. But whether or not it stays in Verbier doesn’t matter. What matters is that there’s a decent amount at lac des Vaux… Ready for November 5th…

Yes, we haven’t had a good gloat for a while so we thought we’d get some in now. Well, it’s Friday and we’re all ready for the weekend. So take your minds off work and enjoy this…

Yes, we are very excited. Loads of snow fell in town last night so when we got back from the Comptoir in Martigny (a big festival style event for the Valais region) we were very excited to see one Hell of a lot of snow in town. And it was very, very chilly.

But this morning whilst it was still cold the sun has come out and it’s one of those bluebird days you dream about after a decent snow fall. Anyway, it looked (and looks) a little like this…