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Our guide is trying to convince us that this can be done even without the ladder. He is pitching some sort of rope repelling or colouior. I have an aversion to heights and the last time I let a guide talk me into something I wound up on the West side of the Valluga in St Anton walking down some...

Mixed bag today. Still, the lunch and views made up for any shortcomings in the off piste. Coverage was not the issue, plenty of snow. There was a valley cloud that just hung around all day and the humidity seemed to crush the snow. At high elevation was still heavy, by the lower elevations of...

Did that on the trip to arlberg. I skied until noon. Was great. I was in Jackson in January. Getting there and back was just as difficult, more expensive, and most importantly to me burned as much time. A minimum of one wasted travel day. I’d just rather come here.

Always. In 2020 took a Neos air flight from JFK to Milan that landed by 6 am and was skiing at St Moritz by 1030. In 2018 landed in Zurich at 7 and was skiing in Steuben by 11. Geneva was easy, we were on the ground before 7. Swiss actually added a 430 PM flight to Zurich this year which gets in...

Pulled into Geneva early. When I entered the Mont Blanc tunnel there was virtually no snow on the ground. When I exited on the Italian side it was full winter. Lightly snowing in town when I got here with what seemed like at least a foot of fresh snow on the local roofs. Even operating not at...

We booked one guided day at La thuile on Friday and one guided day at courmayeur on Thursday.

For sure. And I know there is a mix of opinions on this board on the danger or lack there of off piste routes than can be easily scouted etc in terms of how safe it is or isnt to be cavalier with. level 4 seems high. and ive got 2 young kids so maybe im a bit too cautious. my hope is that maybe...

I was able to get a flight arriving early to geneva so should be able to get some turns in tomorrow. I have spoken with the heli company and the mountain guide association in Courmayeur and at the moment the avalanche danger level is at 4. They received 40 cm yesterday on top of what was...

I reached out to that Heli outfit to see if they have any openings this week. Would definitely consider that if the weather cooperates. First day skiing will be Wednesday. Plenty of rooms available in Courmayeur so not going to book any lodging yet. Will leave options open in case weather looks...

Realistically, if we chose Courmayeur, based on only skiing 4.5 days, I would say we would probably only do La Thuile. We would probably hire a guide at Courmayeur for 2 of the days. Chris trip report last year was very promising. It seems to pack a lot of the alps experience into a well wrapped...

Hadn’t given it much thought but if I remember correctly train access is pretty decent to that area from the airport. Might be preferred to renting if it is snowing. Powderhounds writes highly of the area.

Ok we are going to go. Either leave tomorrow night or Monday night still have not decided. I think we are ruling out the Dolomites. For 4.5 days of skiing it’s just too long a drive from Milan. I think a few weeks ago conditions looked materially worse everywhere else so we felt like we needed...

JFK to Milan leaving as early as tonight is $590 round trip. Same price as it’s been for months. Unbelievable.

I thought I mentioned in my OP but it is a short trip. 5 days of skiing. If it was 2 weeks Id have booked weeks ago and rolled the dice with whatever happens. Given such a short trip and given there are good conditions out west, and given that weve waited this long to give ourselves maximum...

Pretty crazy it doesn’t snow for a month and now this. Seems like forecasts disagree about what happens after Tuesday so going to wait a few days and see what shakes out. Seems hard to fathom a week long storm cycle in the Dolomites but that’s what open snow and wepowder both seem to be...

If off piste looks good which it sure looks like it could I think basing in Aosta with a car could be a great bet. Staying in town always appealed to me and the trip reports raised the stoke. We hope to be avoiding the weekend but weather might force us to push a few days and ski over the...

Looking good for new snow. And for Milan as point of arrival. Now am just hoping to see some sort of defined clearing on the backend to give us a few days of pleasant weather. Could be great timing, fingers crossed

Lodging seems to present a lot of value as well especially at the higher end. The best located american ski hotels seem to have leaned into Uber luxury ala montage at big sky or four seasons at Jackson and left a gap in the market for the not seriously wealthy folk that still want a nice hotel...

That’s good to know. My experience with “tree” skiing in the alps has basically just been below tree line skiing that is skiable and certainly more pleasant than above tree line in a storm or not skiing at all but not particularly good. Not real tree skiing. Great for a stormy day when you’re...

It looks like the timing of this storm for next weekend will either make or break things one way or another. If we cant find good visibility that week though anywhere we will just have to stick to usa. If it snows a lot early in the period and then clears quickly we could be very lucky and...