Its been snowing, some areas have had more then 50cm of snow in the last few days and its still coming! Fresh tracks in Bunni on Friday afternoon. Thats actually a ski piste! Looks more like a skinning trail on a ski tour! Unfortunately the visibility has been pretty bad. Read more…
On Friday night the ride the night mountain bike freeride race took place in Davos, the event involves a timed downhill run next to a ski piste. In theory it sounds easy, in practice it was a little different!!!The course was set from Weissfluhjoch down along the side of the Read more…
Its ON! An MTB Freeride race on Snow in Davos (Parsenn). It should be fun!
Its midweek and time to check the weather forecast for the weekend. There has been no recent snowfall and there is no snow forecast before the weekend. The outlook for Saturday and Sunday is cloud cover for much of Switzerland with some sunny spells on Saturday in Eastern Switzerland and Read more…
The idea to do the tour from Pischa to Klosters had been in my head for a few weeks. This particular tour is in the book “Die Schönsten Freeride-Touren den Schweizer Alpen” (The most beautiful freeride tours in the Swiss Alps) and had appealed to me since I bought the Read more…
The snowfalls of recent days have been very small with the SLF reporting maximum snowfalls of 10cm, but in most cases less. Click on image to be taken direct to SLF site. The weather forecast for the weekend is looking like being quite sunny for much of Switzerland. There should Read more…
It looks like much of Northern Switzerland will get a small bit of snowfall on Wednesday 13th January. Unfortunately this snowfall will probably not extend into the Alps. The weather should then improve with some blue skies in many areas on Thursday, Friday, Saturday. The best of the weather should Read more…
We had been waiting for a good dump of snow for this weekend which unfortunately didn’t arrive, instead we were due to have a cloudy weekend with not much in the way of sunshine. A trip to the mountains was still on the cards, after all cloudy weather means less Read more…
It looks like the promised snow from January 8th has not hit many areas of German Speaking Switzerland. Andermatt seems to be the resort which got the most snow with between 5 and 25cm. Areas like Flims/Laax, Lenzerheide or Davos are reporting between 0 and 5cm new snow in the Read more…
Over the New Year weekend there have been eight deaths due to Avalanches in the Swiss Alps. In Berner Oberland (Diemtigtal) seven people died and more were injured when an Avalanche caught one group of skiers. A group including a doctor from the Helicopter rescue service (Rega) went to assist Read more…