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Walking In A Winter Wonderland
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2011Sleigh bells ringing, are you listening, In the lane, snow is glistening, A beautiful sight, We're happy tonight, Walking In A Winter Wonderland. Christmas is around the corner, and the snow is still falling from Alpe d'Huez to Zermatt. The Alps are set for a sunny day, filled with blues skies and C...
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North America Called... They Want Their Snow Back
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2011Christmas is approaching and the snow is falling, so much so that Tignes had to close the road into resort, from the damn until 2pm today for safety reasons, while they cleared the snow! Following a week that has seen around a metre of snowfall falling from the Three Valleys, to the Portes du Soleil...
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Europe's Winter Wonderland
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2011With fantastic conditions reported Europe is at last looking like a winter wonderland. France has has a superb week on the snow front, so we will concentrate on the larger ski areas. In The Three Valleys, Val Thorens has a metre base at the bottom, in Espace Killy, Val d'Isere is not far behind. Whi...
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Snow Arrives With More Style Than The Metro
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2011Contrary to this morning's headline news in the Metro, there was some great snow over the weekend, with the Alps returning to their beautiful, snow-covered selves. With more snowfall forecast in the next few days and with webcams telling a different, but more realistic story, we replied to the Metro...
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Glad Bindings
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2011There are only 30 days until Christmas and we'll all be asking Santa to deliver perfect snow on our yearly migration to the mountains this year. After a bumper start to the month, followed by some ridiculously large dumps in Canada, the snow is coming back to the Alps next week. Though the snow gods...