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- From: speedy@speedy.demon.co.uk (Jeffrey Holdgate)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!speedy.demon.co.uk!speedy
- Subject: Verbier, Switzerland - conditions in late March?
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- References: <1993Jan22.121046.8526@lin.foa.se>
- Organization: Jeffrey Holdgate Associates
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 06:02:12 +0000
- Message-ID: <727941732snx@speedy.demon.co.uk>
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- In article <1993Jan22.121046.8526@lin.foa.se> eriks@lin.foa.se writes:
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- >
- >acooper@nuustak.csir.co.za (Antony Cooper) writes:
- >
- >>Hi All!
- >
- >>Ideally, I'd like an accurate prediction of the snow conditions, for the
- >>last two weeks of March, for the area around Verbier in Switzerland, but
- >>according to the FAQ one should not ask such questions! :-)
- >
- >How very true! :-)
- >
- >>Seriously, though, what are the snow conditions there now? In general,
- >>would they improve or get worse by the end of March? Living in a hot,
- >>Southern Hemisphere country, I have no experience with European winters!
- >>How crowded are the slopes likely to be around that time of the year?
- >
- >Verbier right now isn't very good. Tho' the condtions could change enormously
- >til march. The slopes are likely to be rather crowded. You could always drive
- >to Chamonix (my all-time favourite). Takes about an hour - an hour and a half.
- >
- >>There has been some discussion here about the merits of radar reflectors
- >>and radio beacons. I am a rank beginner, having skied only once (at
- >>Loveland, Colorado), so I will confine myself to the marked pistes. Are
- >>such devices necessary for a skier such as myself? What about insurance
- >>to cover the need to be casavaced-off by helicopter?
- >
- >I don't think you'll need neither beeper nor radar reflector if you stay on> the
- >prepared slopes. There is fun skiing in Verbier when you get up high, to that
- >plateau at 3000 meter, the name I have naturally forgotten.
- >
- >cheers
- >--
- >
- > Erik Svensson
- > Research Officer National Defense Research Establishment (FOA)
- > Guided Weapons Division Stockholm, Sweden eriks@fenix.lin.foa.se
- >
- >"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present"
- > -- Hobbes
- >
- >
- The conditions in March in Verbier would normally be uncrowded with ggod snow
- conditions. You should not require Off Piste survival Kit if you SKi on the
- Piste. Conditions Now (as in all the Alps) are bad, They should improve
- by March. I've Skied Verbier in APril with great conditions. Have fun
- J.
-