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Old January 12th 04, 04:39 PM
Adrian D. Shaw
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Just returned from 1 week in Emmetten (Klewenalp) and 1 week in
Lauterbrunnen (Jungfrau region). The best new year snow I can
remember. So much for global warming!

Admittedly they didn't have the base they would like, and the snow
was thin in places, but it was good quality stuff - none of the ice
and slush we'd become accustomed to in recent years.

In fact it was so good, we may try harder to get a week in somewhere
over Easter than previous years... we never quite managed 2 ski
holidays in one year before!

Adrian
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Old January 12th 04, 05:41 PM
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"So much for global warming" Precisely what the experts say you get
with global warming a thawed hill/mountain with bigger & bigger dumps
of rain (snow in mountains) which in turn will create acute avalanche's
situation in the winter & mud & rock slides in the off-season . Expect
more winters like 1999 in the future Powder Heaven !

nigel



Adrian D. Shaw wrote:
Just returned from 1 week in Emmetten (Klewenalp) and 1 week in
Lauterbrunnen (Jungfrau region). The best new year snow I can
remember. So much for global warming!

Admittedly they didn't have the base they would like, and the snow
was thin in places, but it was good quality stuff - none of the ice
and slush we'd become accustomed to in recent years.

In fact it was so good, we may try harder to get a week in somewhere
over Easter than previous years... we never quite managed 2 ski
holidays in one year before!

Adrian


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Old January 12th 04, 09:14 PM
Adrian D. Shaw
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Yn erthygl , sgrifennodd
Nigel (Remove NOSPAM) :
"So much for global warming" Precisely what the experts say you get
with global warming a thawed hill/mountain with bigger & bigger dumps
of rain (snow in mountains) which in turn will create acute avalanche's
situation in the winter & mud & rock slides in the off-season . Expect
more winters like 1999 in the future Powder Heaven !


Not quite sure what you mean by that - and my comment was rather tongue-
in-cheek: I accept that global warming is probably happening. It was
interesting however to see on the Swiss news that whilst we were there,
the whole of Switzerland was at one point covered with snow; something
that apparently hasn't happened for many years.

Adrian
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Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Cymru ac.
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Old January 13th 04, 05:29 AM
Ian Spare
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Adrian D. Shaw wrote:
Yn erthygl , sgrifennodd
Nigel (Remove NOSPAM) :

"So much for global warming" Precisely what the experts say you get
with global warming a thawed hill/mountain with bigger & bigger dumps
of rain (snow in mountains) which in turn will create acute avalanche's
situation in the winter & mud & rock slides in the off-season . Expect
more winters like 1999 in the future Powder Heaven !


It's been strange though, there's really been hardly any depth to the
snow at all but we've had some regular smaller falls of snow, for
example a lot of the top of Flaine wasn't open over Xmass/New Year as
they're were gaping holes in the pistes where the fissures in the rock
are. Nevertheless, some really enjoyable skiing as has been said.

It was around the same at the weekend, we skied near Gstaad on Saturday
and it was great but there's hardly any base at all, but great skiing
again. Conditions did look good for the weekend...but...

I've just been called out and driving from home at 0300am local time
here in Switzerland (Fribourg direction, around 600m ) it's 10'c which
is a bit warm really :-)
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Old January 13th 04, 06:48 AM
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"Ian Spare" wrote in message
...
| Adrian D. Shaw wrote:
| Yn erthygl , sgrifennodd
| Nigel (Remove NOSPAM) :
|
| "So much for global warming" Precisely what the experts say you get
| with global warming a thawed hill/mountain with bigger & bigger
dumps
| of rain (snow in mountains) which in turn will create acute
avalanche's
| situation in the winter & mud & rock slides in the off-season .
Expect
| more winters like 1999 in the future Powder Heaven !
|
| It's been strange though, there's really been hardly any depth to the
| snow at all but we've had some regular smaller falls of snow, for
| example a lot of the top of Flaine wasn't open over Xmass/New Year as
| they're were gaping holes in the pistes where the fissures in the rock
| are. Nevertheless, some really enjoyable skiing as has been said.
|
| It was around the same at the weekend, we skied near Gstaad on
Saturday
| and it was great but there's hardly any base at all, but great skiing
| again. Conditions did look good for the weekend...but...
|
| I've just been called out and driving from home at 0300am local time
| here in Switzerland (Fribourg direction, around 600m ) it's 10'c which
| is a bit warm really :-)

It's raining hard way above resort level now in the Tarentaise, and has
been chucking it down all night. It was so warm that we had the windows
open. Let's hope it doesn't do too much damage before the colder weather
returns Thursdayish.

Pete

Pete


 




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