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

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Superb day!

PHOTO Richard Hogg

As you might know it snowed A LOT this weekend. In fact I can’t remember when it last snowed that heavily. At some part on Friday afternoon it was snowing something like 15 cm per hour, which is enormous!
So everyone expected a great day on Saturday but many people where disappointed because there where so much snow and the wind had hit it as well so it was extremely heavy and almost un-ski able in many places.
But now a couple of cold night and days have dried out the powder and today was a great day! My colleague at Alpine Experience, Wayne Watson said at the meeting this morning that we were in for a “top 5” of the season and he sure was right!
We skied some great snow and we can now have some fun on the slightly less steep slopes as well. Thank you Richard Hogg for the photos!
I skied on my new MOVEMENT skis and they where great! We will give you a more detailed review soon!
Not many avalanches are being triggered even if it’s an avalanche risk 4 but my explanation to this is that since we got so much snow it’s hard for a skier to get to the week spots. However if someone should trigger an avalanche, they could go HUGE so be very careful out there!

More snow is forecast this week so it looks like we will have a great end of the season!

Have fun and be safe,
Andreas
HAT/ Alpine Experience

Weekly Talks at Dicks

Henry's Avalanche Talks in Dicks T Bar

Henry's Avalanche Talks are happening every week in Dicks T Bar
Tuesdays 18.00 Ride Hard Ride Safe - introduction talk
Thursdays 18.00 In depth talk

Tickets are €10 euros on the door or €8 if bought in advance in the resort (ask at Dicks or your resort rep)
Also you can by advance tickets in the UK for £5.  Click here or call 020 8144 5202 to buy an email ticket, we take credit cards or BACS payments.

Big Snow Forecast

Just called into the Météo France 7 day forecast for the Northern Alps. They are very confident that a big storm is moving in for this weekend (Saturday through Tuesday). It sounds like a classic big storm with winds predicted to come in from the west then north-west. The rain/snow limit is predicted to be from 1300m to 2300m which is a bit wet, but at least it will be snowing up high!

Over the last week the HAT Team has been on the road promoting and presenting our new production 'Ride Hard ! Ride Safe' in Val d'Isère, Tignes Méribel and Chamonix. Further big events include our HAT Kick-off staff meeting in Val d'Isère this weekend where the whole HAT Team will be present and a party in Dicks Tea Bar with a FREE viewing of 'Ride Hard ! Ride Safe' for seasonal staff (please call Dicks to reserve 04 79 06 14 87 leave your name with Becca). See you soon! Henry

HAT talk and party on 1st Dec in Dicks

What a great start to the season.  These are some of the best early season snow falls we have seen since 1996.

And if you come to Val d'isere for the opening weekend there is a free Henrys Avalanche Talk and a party to kick off the new season in Dicks at 1800 on Saturday 1st Dec.   (do let us know if you want to come hat@skioffpiste.co.uk it will help us prredict numbers

See you there?  or maybe later in the season? 

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.