European glacier skiing is very good at the moment. A sunny weekend was enjoyed by skiers in Austria and Switzerland following the storm last week. Several resorts in Australia ended their season over the weekend. Mount Buller, Mount Hotham and Selwyn Snowfields closed their lifts for the season on Sunday 25th September.
The fresh snow earlier this week in Europe has significantly boosted the snow on glaciers, especially in Austria and Italy. Hintertux’s base depth more than doubled and Stubai managed to reopen following 45cm of fresh snow. Spring is still in full swing in Australia. Good skiing can be found at most resorts as they made lots of artificial snow earlier in the season. Perisher and Thredbo have the deepest snow bases.
It’s gone from unusually warm in the Alps to unusually cold. There’s been lots of fresh snow in Austria, right down to lower levels. Even Mayrhofen town (around 650m above sea level) received snow. Both Hintertux and Molltal were closed because of the stormy weather.
It’s been another mild week in Europe. Kaprun in Austria was scheduled to reopen this weekend but they have postponed this until the end of September. The big news in Europe is the snow and cold weather forecast for the weekend. Austria and eastern parts of Italy are expected to benefit the most.
Skiing on European glaciers is quite limited at the moment. Two areas are open in Austria, two in Switzerland, one in Italy and none in France. Many Australian resorts received fresh snow which gave them powder skiing on the upper slopes. Thredbo benefitted from around 10cm of fresh snow. Stormy weather has taken over New Zealand again.
Skiing on European glaciers is quite limited at the moment. Two areas are open in Austria, two in Switzerland, one in Italy and none in France. Spring still dominates in Australia although they did enjoy some fresh snow earlier this week. It also went colder overnight allowing them to run the snow cannons a little and improve the open runs.
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