Our First Blog….Is it Going to Snow?

What’s the seaweed you having hanging on your back gate telling you?

The berries are plentiful, the onion skins are thicker, the marmottes are doing something or other and so that means that another winter is on the way!

We were wearing shorts & t-shirts just a couple of weeks ago in record temperatures for October and now there is snow down to 1300m this weekend!

Who knows what is going to happen this coming winter – last winter started with record snow falls at the end of November.  Altitude’s first day skiing was on Saturday 4th December – it was an amazing powder day!  I was heard to shout more than once that day something on the lines of “WOOO HOOO!  If this is what Verbier has to offer bring it on!!”  It was going to be a fantastic ski season!

Hmmm.....Except it wasn’t!!

After Christmas there was a serious lack of snow across most of the Alps through the rest of the season and that powder day turned into one of only two truly great days for me – the other for the record was on March 12th.

Oh well, we had three good seasons before this one, so a ratio of one not so good season to three good isn’t so bad!

Altitude was based in Verbier last winter and was fortunate to ski the legendary resorts of St Anton, Zermatt and Chamonix as well as La Plagne, Le Grand Massif and Les Portes du Soleil.

This year we hope to ski more resorts visit more chalets, speak to more owners and holiday makers and hopefully over the next five months or so we can give you some idea of what it is like working in a ski resort, some helpful tips on how to book the best ski holidays, information about ski & snowboard equipment, updates on ski resorts, reports on great day trips, amazing powder days and more.

So with the first ski magazines arriving on my door mat, the nights drawing in and the ski show in just a couple of weeks I’m off to look at the berries, the onion skins and the Marmottes of West Sussex to see if we are going to have a great season. I can't wait!