Fresh Snow in the Alps
Fresh Snow in the Alps
Published : 11-Sep-2013 02:19
There's been fresh snow in the Alps in the past 24 hours, helping to build anticipation for the coming ski season.
Although only a handful of glacier ski areas are currently open in Austria, Italy and Switzerland (with none in France), web cam images showed blue skies over fresh snow this morning.
The year-round ski area of Huntertux in Austria's Ziller Valley reported 15cm (six inches) of new snow in the past 24 hours (cam image above from there this morning). And base depths of 30 – 75cm. It has 12km of piste currently open over a 600 metre vertical.
The other ski areas currently open include Saas Fee and Zermatt in Switzerland and Passo Stelvio in Italy.
Austria's Molltal glacier reports 10cm of new snow on a 140cm base and the Pitztal glacier, with Austria's highest slope at 3440m and a special plus-temperatures snowmaking system reports 6cm of fresh snow. It plans to open for its eight month season to May 2014 this Saturday.
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