Saisonabschluss

At the end of the season, we invite you to play with us! In the "mountain game" you can put your knowledge of mountains and volcanoes to the test, or simply try your luck. There are big PowderGuide goodies to be won!

If you're looking for another challenge at the end of the season but can't find enough challenging snow, you'll love this game! The aim is to assign snow profiles to the location. Of course there is also something to win! The whole thing will be solved at the final PG meeting.

PowderGuide is saying goodbye for the summer. This means that, with a few exceptions, we are suspending our editorial work and the weather service is also taking a break until it gets wintry again. Of course, we would be delighted if all those who are still out and about continue to report on their tours in the ConditionsReports!

The editorial contributions have already slowly gone into summer hibernation over the last few weeks, and now the PG weather service is following suit. On May 20, we will switch off "the weather" for this season. Anyone who is still skiing can of course continue to post ConditionsReports! We are just as happy to receive alpine tour reports as we are summer snow sliding!

Steffi from SnowFlurry recently asked the group at the final PG meeting how long everyone's ski season is. There were as many different answers as there were people in our "circle". The ski season is not tied to the meteorological or calendar winter and just because the WeatherBlog goes on summer break doesn't mean that the skis are summerized.

The annual PowderGuide final meeting took place last week, for the first time as a digital event. The initial skepticism about the virtual format was quickly dispelled, especially thanks to the lively participation of the participants. We were delighted to see so many familiar faces!

The PowderGuide weather service is taking a summer break with tomorrow's forecast for May 16, 2019. After the winter has stepped on the gas again in late spring (last PowderAlert on May 3rd!), we are slowly but surely heading into summer. The PG team is taking a breather and is secretly already looking forward to the first snowflakes in the fall when things get going again.

Last weekend, PG ConditionsReporters and editorial team members got together for the traditional end-of-season get-together. PowderGuide wouldn't be what it is without the dedicated input of the extended community and especially the ConditionsReporters, so it's always nice to get together once a year in as large a group as possible and talk about all sorts of things. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who couldn't make it to the meeting! Thank you very much for your commitment this season!

We're off, at least all of us from PowderGuide. The reason: we're meeting up in the Jamtal valley in Tyrol for the almost traditional PG end-of-season meeting. On board will be the PG editorial team, most of the Conditions reporters and many other PG friends, supporters and the world's leading avalanche rescue expert Manuel Genswein.

Winter 2011, which at least in the Northern Alps never really got going, is over, is history, or rather: simply ticked off.
PowderGuide.com is taking a summer break from May 1 to October 31, 2011.