Lars Oelmann

Just as the book describes the cruel everyday life of war, this alarm describes the wonderful everyday life in the west of the Alps that Ullr brings to all locals and travelers for the weekend.

As an oracle, you have to seek the divine and so I'm sitting at the end of the road in Valais just before the French border, waiting for Ullr's new powder revelation. The alert is valid until Wednesday.

Live from the Valais, I can tell you that Alarm 8 was actually very nice. Three days of powder and, surprisingly, three days of sunshine later, it's now alarm nine, which is valid until Monday, when alarm 10 should appear.

The snow from the last alarm came and went. The waxing and waning of Alert 7 is over and the rain slurry is now freezing to the new base, where it hasn't been washed away. And it's going to get a surprisingly nice pack of snow by Friday.

Unlike Godzilla, who is from Japan and stands for the saying "It came from Japan", I took the opposite route and made my way to the land of the rising sun. Why Nippon? Not because of the sushi, but to beat our rather disappointing winter and ride some deep powder.

As happy as you are to have beer, you just don't enjoy stale beer. It's the same with this alarm. It may be snowing, but it quickly gets so warm that you can't enjoy it.

The time has come, it's finally snowing really fluffy powder, unfortunately most of it again for those who are already blessed with it from Ullr.

After the last alarm was rather disappointing and it was also quite warm, Ullr finally wants to do us some good and is sending snow again; lots of snow...

The meteorologist (and Wikipedia; forgive me) defines weather as: "The weather is the weather or is the weather conditions in a certain period of time (from several days to a season) related to a certain area".

I've almost forgotten how to interpret weather maps, it's been so awful the last few weeks. But October is finally over and January seems to want to live up to its image as a winter month, at least for a few days.

As the freeride bible says: "If Ullr doesn't come to the Oracle with powder, the Oracle has to go to British Columbia". Or something like that. Because in contrast to a normal El Niño winter (where it would be dry and warm here), it snows non-stop in BC and the northwest of the USA.

It has already started to snow and the new alarm has to come, you think? Absolutely right, but you won't miss anything today, because this alert is for Thursday / Friday, as the alert amounts won't fall until tomorrow.