Historical Snow Conditions for 2016-17 season

We are in the middle of the perfect ski week, with continually blue skies and very good snow conditions. The Stockhorn – Triftji freeride slopes opened this week, as did the long Kumme run. As is usual in Zermatt, you can easily find fresh powder to track even a week after the last snowfall. Here is the evidence, an MX guest ripping it down near Gornergrat:

A second great powder day this week. Although it had rained up to 2,400m yesterday, it also snowed, and we had great powder for most of each run we did on the Stockhorn / Triftji freeride area. The bottom run outs were just a little heavy. We did 5 runs of 1,000 vertical metres each before lunch. Do also have a look at the video here.

Today was the best powder day of the season so far, with bottomless floaty snow!!! And as is typical in Zermatt, we got fresh tracks and virgin powder fields all day long. Have a look at today's video.

120cm of fresh snow has fallen over the last 7 days at 3,500m, and 49cm at village level.

There was a wonderful double low pressure system on the Alps yesterday which gave us 45cm of new powder snow on the top slopes near Italy, and 30cm lower down:

The result is that today most of us skipped Sunday lunch, there were just too many off-piste courses:

The last snowfall totalled 30cm on the top slopes, the weather then cleared yesterday afternoon and today Friday was a beautiful sunny day and our Matterhorn was resplendent:

It snowed all day yesterday Tuesday February 28th, and this snowfall is set to continue until tomorrow Wednesday March 2nd. Currently there are 15cm of fresh snow at Gornergrat, with high winds closing many of the upper lifts, do check in for an update tomorrow.

The Half-Term school holiday week just gone was absolutely perfect, with stable high-pressure weather conditions giving us constant sunshine and blue skies. Everyone from small kids to grand-parents had a great time, with grippy and crisp winter snow followed by al fresco lunches in the warm sun. And Zermatt being Zermatt, if you knew where to look, there were still some fresh powder tracks to be had off-piste:

This week was truly amazing, with three great powder days, the best was yesterday (Saturday) with 30-40cm of bottomless snow over on the Italian side. The off-piste was still very good on Hohtälli, but due to the weather closing in on Friday it had snowed on the southern flank of the mountain so that is where we headed. The high wind had hardened the snow on the Swiss Matterhorn side, while on the Italian side it was fluffy perfection. The advantage of being able to access both sides of the Alps. We have posted a few videos on Vimeo.

Another great powder day, with the Hohtälli (Stockhorn) free-ride area being skiable for the first time this season.