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Getting accommodation a little way from the lifts helps immensely. A ten minute, brisk walk through snow in ski boots and carrying your skis is a great warm-up.

Best not to stretch while your muscles are still cold.

Seriously - if you're in ski-in/ski-out accommodation then warming up first is easy to forget but no less crucial; a gentle run first will do the trick. Do the first run with loose boots to let your ankles flex and to feel the snow.

:lol:

Also, short but very sweet...

From our weekly Snow e-mail (if you're not subscribed - you should be!) :-

A week is a long time in Snow Forecasting... just six days ago we said snow was unlikely much before the 10th; how wrong we were. This weeks big news is that a storm originally predicted to bring a little snow to the Eastern edge of The Alps had ideas of its own and has plastered much of Austria, prompting the first official warnings of "snow chaos" for the next few days.

This morning we see lesser quantities of snow on the ground across Switzerland and the northern-most regions of Italy.

The week ahead looks set to be colder than average (for the time of year) with more snow in the forecast over the weekend - particularly for Austria, where some resorts could see anything up to half a metre accumulating. At this point it's not entirely clear how far South and West the current snow will spread but the Northern French Alps should see 10cm or so over the weekend.

Keep an eye on the Snow Reports on j2ski - we'll be updating these throughout the day as the resorts start reporting how much fresh they've just received. We'd also expect the forecast, particularly for French and Italian Ski Resorts, to be quite dynamic over the next few days as the snow decides exactly how far to go.

Bring it on,

Floydie wrote:long weekend destination for early December? Has to be in Europe and there has to be snow for boarding.

Early December you'll have to go high - very few low to medium-altitude resorts will open even if there's big early snow.

So check Tignes, Les Deux Alpes, Val Thorens and Hintertux for starters.

You can leave your choice quite late, as ski resorts are pretty empty in early December as a rule.

davidsa2 wrote:Myself and some of the guys are having 5 days skiing in Mayrhofen cg 20/01/2008. I plan to drive to Mayrhofen from Munich airport but have no idea re road conditions and wether or not I will need snow tryes/snow chains on the hire car.

Much too early to say for sure what the road conditions will be like, but you should definitely be prepared to use chains in late January. Your hire car will almost certainly be fitted with snow tyres at that time, which will cope with most snowy roads, but do make sure when booking.

Keep an eye on our Snow Forecast for Mayhrhofen - which is currently looking a bit tasty! 8)

Oh those leeks... :lol:

I told a similar, lengthy, story to the five-year-old daughter of a friend of mine over lunch once; all about how the moguls were where French sausages lived... she listened politely all the way through before turning to her Dad and saying "He's talking a load of rubbish - and he can't ski in moguls either".

To cap it all she then told me that Santa doesn't exist! Kids today...

Jan I Stenmark wrote: Know the leeks

Is this something to do with thick onion skins? Oh no, wrong thread...

Hi pipp,

Ski Resorts near Geneva should give you a good start.

As you're going in January, you can afford to wait until nearer the time and check the snows as they arrive - should be plenty of accommodation choices as it's not peak season.

Inside two hours you've got plenty of options with nightlife - Chamonix and Verbier are among the best (for skiing and partying), though not cheap and Morzine will be fun too - though is at lower altitude.

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