Snow report Chamonix, 01/21/2015

Snow condition

The descent into the valley is definitely not recommended. Hardly any or no surface at all. A few white streaks down into the valley, but without any stones. More snow only from 2000m upwards. But even here there is little fill. On average, I estimate a 40cm snow cover up to 2500m. Currently, all the famous big descents (like the vallee blanche) are still not possible. Mainly because the crevasses at the top have not yet been filled and there is not enough snow to ski out at the bottom.

Snow quality

Better than it looked. Powder was in poor shape and very difficult to find. But the snow that was there was easy to ride. On sunny slopes during the day, a light crust also forms a little higher up (over 2000 meters) towards the evening.

According to the LLB in the resort 3, but actually everything seems quite firm. On the shaded side in the morning there were still small slides of about 5cm. But we didn't see any big slides or avalanches. With the sun and the warming during the day, the snow seemed more and more compact.

Overall impression

But quite bad. You really don't have to come to Cahmonix for the freeriding. But the panorama is always a hit and steep gullies are fun even when they're a bit harder. You can look forward to the FWT contest in these snow conditions! It's supposed to snow on Saturday. Whether that helps will depend very much on the amount.