Where Did I Park My Car?
Weather report by Mark Fielding of Huski, Bourg Saint Maurice.
I arrived in Bourg two weeks ago to tales of a disastrous early season last year. Calamitous accounts of “grass” and “walking” instead of skiing, such was the lack of snow. Rest assured this year will not be the same. It hasn’t stopped snowing for three days now. Here in Bourg Saint Maurice (the gateway to the resorts of the Tarrantaise) cars are being buried, roads are being ploughed, trees are bending under the weight of fresh snow. And we’re only at 800 metres, so you can imagine what it is like further up the mountain.
Our Huski drivers are already delivering to early opening resorts of Tignes and Val d’isere and setting up routes across the Three Valleys. Their reports?
- Val d’Isere – white out, snowing.
- La Plagne – white out, snowing.
- Tignes – white out, snowing.
- Les Arcs – white out, snowing.
- Ste Foy – white out, snowing.
It’s like this all across the Alps. Shops are selling out of snow chains. A metre of fresh sNow. And with freezing temperatures and more snow forecast, the conditions going into Christmas and New Year are set to be some of the best in years. Our Huskies are literally chomping at the bit for those lifts to open next weekend.
If the covering of snow in England has got you all hot under the collar about a last minute skiing holiday but last year has made you doubt the conditions, let me alleviate those fears with some photos.