Hot, Hot. Hot Summer has arrived in Val. Temperatures have hit +12°C (54°F) on the slopes yesterday and today was slightly less hot. I love that the...
Category - Postcard from Val
Ski Tip’s regular blog including weekly ‘Postcards from Val’, weather updates, and video tips
My friend the YSE photographer ventured out into the blizzard to take this photo of the old village of Val which is just behind the church. If you...
More snow!! The storm that raged yesterday morning calmed in the afternoon and ski lifts were able to reopen. The visibility was horrid but the snow...
Weather update: Well the ‘ides of March’ are definitely upon us. The weather has been all over the place. Above are 2 photos, the upper...
We got the snow we were promised! We woke up to 20cm (8in) in town and 45cm (18in) on the upper slopes with up to a metre (3 1/3) feet piled up in...
Andreas Bjorklund from Alpine Experience did it again! Though only a few cm of snow fell on Friday he managed to find some gullies where the snow...
Weather musings: Ah, the vagaries of mountain weather, I love it. Yesterday the temperature on my balcony was 20°C and today it is 0°C (68°F – 32°F)...
The clouds moved in yesterday morning and blocked the sun much of the day so we finally didn’t have a type of day we’ve gotten used to...
Feb 20, 2017 It’s starting to get boring repeating the same words over and over again how conditions here in Val/Tignes are so good. We are...
‘Just another sh..ty day in Paradise’! That’s an expression lots of us old timers use to describe a perfect, bluebird day with...