Back home since last Thursday.

 
The color of the day is grey.
Clouds, mist, haze and very light snowfall and temperatures around freezing point.
The amount of fresh snow is not enough to change to conditions of the pistes.
The next two weeks there will be no reports and pictures.
Tomorrow we will fly from Grenoble to Rotterdam for a “vacation” in the Netherlands.
Transavia […]

Between 1 and 5 o’clock it was snowing at a temperature around zero degrees. However it was very light snowfall and this “micro dump” gave 1 cm snow.
Just enough to give the old snow a fresh white color. The visibility was very poor caused by a dense fog.
The pictures of this Tuesday can be seen […]

 
Today was a day with a mixture of clouds and sunshine.
Most pistes are still in a good condition, hard underground with some snow and in the afternoon below 2500 meter they are soft.
The weatherforecast for the coming days is very different and depending on the source.
The return of the winter with snowfall is nearly 100% […]

The change of weather goes very slowly. Today it was 2-3 degrees colder, but sun was shining during the whole day.
At the end of the day it was remarkable how the pistes have suffered from the crowds. The piste maintenance personel wil have a lot to do this night to prepare the piste for tomorrow.
The […]

 
It was a quiet Saturday. In the morning the same brillant sunshine as before. But in the afternoon high clouds came in as sign of the changing weather.
The Mont Blanc was topped with a cloud and that is good indication for snowfall.
On more and more places, just besides the pistes, the snow is scraped away […]

Tomorrow seems to be the last day of a long sunny period.
It was very quiet on the pistes during lunchtime. Everybody was sitting on the terasses, the rocks or just in the snow to enjoy the sunshine and having lunch.
In Val Thorens the first day of the competition for the Ski Cross French and Europe […]

see the best pictures of week 04 and 05 on Youtubehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s10Bg24BE-khttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK6VJ4rNmos

The stability of the high pressure weather continues and so the perfect blue sky.
Only moderate “cold” winds above 2500 meters.
The pictures of this Thursday can be seen at :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/123_456/sets/72157625894747005/

see the videoclip of the “coupe du monde de télémark , Méribel 7 february 2011http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBbZ4xxPOL8