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I'd skied a bit on the sept laux pistes yesterday when I was skitouring and things didn't look that great. In fact globally the pistes weren't bad but a few stones here and there and not always easy ...

In the Southern Alps there is a good layer of fresh snow on the highest ridges such as the Maritime Alps and Haut-Verdon where snow depths are within normal ranges for late December. Elsewhere in the ...

Across large parts of the Alps above about 2,500 m, isolated weak snow layers exist, especially where light snowfall from mid- to late December has settled atop older, faceted snow. Even here, the ...

⚠️ Météo-France has placed the Hautes-Alpes department on yellow alert for avalanches from Friday 26 December 2025. The Queyras mountain range has been placed on risk level 4/5 in certain areas.

There have been a number of serious avalanches across the French Alps today, Friday 26 December, causing multiple injuries and fatalities. These incidents took place in different regions and happened ...

Météo-France reports that: After a reasonably snowy start to December, the recent warm spell over the past 10 days has reduced snow cover, especially on southern exposures and at lower elevations. As ...

New research published in Nature (Lee et al. 2025) suggests that the weakening of the North Atlantic conveyor will not product the bumper winters that many ski enthusiasts had expected. The research ...

The news that the highest ski resort in the French Pyrénées has been declared bankrupt almost went without notice outside of the region. It is not the first time for Puigmal. The ski area already went ...

Salomon have issued a recall for its MTN pin binding range. The recall in only for bindings manufactured from May 2022 to March 2023. The recall concerns the possibility of a breakage of the spring ...

First time at the Col de Porte this season. Just cruised around the pistes a couple of times. The climbs were quite hard, lack of fitness and steep hills. Pistes a bit lumpy in places but we're skiing ...

A group of two skiers and a snowboarder triggered a large avalanche in the St Antoine valley at around 2600 meters altitude on a west facing slope. An off piste route that can be reached from the ski ...