Val d'Isere snow report weather forecast from Henry's Avalanche Talk

HAT to supply recommended off piste equipment

We have now set up an arrangement that means we will be able to sell avalanche safety and off piste gear from our website.  This will allow us to provide specific recommendations on what gear we find is the most useful and most important to have.  Then you will be able get the gear directly before your trip

As part of this, Henry is right now trying out some new Movement all terrain skis and he will be reporting back next week on the experience. 

Special offer

In the meantime whilst we are getting this ready, our distributor has some excess stock on a few freeride and touring skis.  If you are interested in the special prices Click here Download hat_deal.pdf

An awesome day in another resort

Headed over to Courcheval yesterday, met up with some BASI snowboard trainers from RTM (ski & snowboard school). After spending the morning on piste with some of their groups we left the pupils behind in the afternoon and headed to the top of the Courcheval bowl. After getting the main cable car to the summit we took a rather scary route along the ridge of the mountain we then hiked towards the main peak up and across 3 couloirs one of which included a 7ft drop we had to make with out our boards on. I was glad I wasn,t the first one to have to jump! After about 30mins of hiking we reached the entrance to a wide north facing couloir were the snow was superb. We were very surprised to find such good snow so long after a snow fall on a Hazard rating of 1. We got some wicked turns and the whole experience was well worth the effort.

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An excellent 2 days

We spent all day in the Fornet skiing some great fresh tracks with Henry and the Avalanche Awareness group, we took time to look at some route selection and dig a couple of snow pits. All fascinating stuff! This linked to an excellent beep training session yesterday added up to a very succesful couple of days.

And of course tonight in town Were off to see (The One and OnlY!) Chesney Hawkes! Awesome!

HAT Val d'Isere blog

Welcome to HAT in Val d'Isere.  Once the season starts, on these pages we will publish reports on current conditions, a translation of Avalanche Forecast, new photos for the photo album, news about HAT events.