Snow Conditions

Since our last update it snowed 30cm on Christmas day (perfect for a white Christmas), a little more on New Year’s day. And a lot more over the last four days: a whopping 80cm at Gornergrat and 33cm in the village. Conditions on piste are outstanding and off-piste epic!

It snowed up until last Saturday, and then Sunday December 3d was one of the best powder days ever, with 40cm of fresh snow. A glorious start to the season, and a perfect base for the coming Christmas and New Year holidays. All three mountains in Zermatt are open, as are Cervinia and Valotournenche on the Italian side.

We have had an exceptional amount of early snow, so much in fact that the new FIS downhill race on November 11/12th had to be cancelled because there was too much! What this means is that the base for the coming season is really good, and every new snowfall from now on will hold well: the season is set to be a great one!

Zermatt is the only ski resort in the world where the skiing never closes! The summer ski area is open as usual, and new this year, the cable car joining the Matterhorn Glacier Paradise to the Italian cable car station at Testa Grigia is running. This means that pedestrians can go all the way from Zermatt to Cervinia and back, across the highest border crossing in the Alps! Or you can do a shorter trip and get off at Testa Grigia, enjoy the spectacular views and have an Italian lunch in the Rifugio Guide del Cervino.

With yet another 30cm of fresh snow we have had some glorious powder skiing – which is very typical of April. The Sunnegga and Gornergrat areas closed today, but the Matterhorn side remains open until May 1st, while the Cervinia area will run until May 7th.

Wintery conditions have continued, with regular snowfalls and lots of off-piste skiing. The upper pistes have perfect winter powdery snow, while the lower resort runs have spring snow.

These last two weeks of March and the first week of April have given us perfect winter powder all the way down to the village. Cool temperatures are preserving the snow, and on all the north facing runs (which are the majority in Zermatt) we have had great conditions both on and off-piste.

April showers have come early, and we are experiencing a good mix of snow and sun. Yesterday all the freeriders were out on the Hohtalli slopes, enjoying 30cm of fresh powder.

Winter is back full-time: it snowed again yesterday with a substantial 30cm. The snow base is quickly catching up with its usual level. The pistes are superb, and we now also have deep and epic off-piste conditions.

It started snowing last Wednesday with 60cm, and continued on Friday with another 80cm. And yet more is expected tonight before the clouds lift tomorrow.
Once the pistes are secured for avlanches, the skiing will be epic!