Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Thanksgiving to all my US friends. This is the holiday where we gather with family and good friends to share a day of...
Category - Postcard from Val
Ski Tip’s regular blog including weekly ‘Postcards from Val’, weather updates, and video tips
Winter has arrived! What a November!! After all the tempting snowfalls in Oct and earlier this month when snow turned the upper slopes white only to...
SNOW!!!! So the snow gods have finally looked down favorably on the French Alps. Val is now white again! And not just on the glacier but EVERYWHERE...
It’s always exciting to see the first snow falling and sticking to the slopes. The above photo was taken 7 October and was very encouraging. It...
Solaise ski area in perfect condition. Packed powder pistes and excellent powder between the pistes February 5, 2019 Fab powder, possibly the best...
January 26, 2019 Time to ‘Ski Tour’ There’s not much ‘side piste’ powder left and almost all the standard ‘off...
January 21, 2019 Simply marvelous I suppose it is possible to be better than it is here now but conditions are simply marvelous as just about every...
January 17, 2019 Brrrrr…… Yes it has been ‘Brrrrr’….. cold. It was -25°C (-13° F) last week up high and those super...
January 9, 2019 Mellow! After a very hectic Christmas/New Years period Val has become wonderfully mellow as the families have left to return their...