oops

http://blog.i-g.ch/index.php?2009/04/12/813-les-avalanches-de-printemps

Strangely enough, I was skiing down there the other day and my friend commented that some of the pylons had different ages and had obviously been hit like this. We'd just been stranded on the ridge above for while touring back into the resort when they started to clear that slope.

Snow conditions off-piste in the afternoon remain pretty awful as well.

I would imagine the problem will only get worse if the forecast snow falls?

I doubt we'll see much more than a few cm of snow at ski station heights. The problem is limited long-wave radiation at night so the snow-pack isn't cooling in any appreciable way, by the afternoon the instability is so major they're having to blast and run across the ski stations which is unusual. Some of the tourists still seem to be trying to see how hardcore they can look just before they die though.

Out up high and remote the last few days it's been extremely challenging conditions to move in.

We stood and watched the new pylons being delivered by heli. There were 2 slides which caused the damage. The debris from the 1st had been cleared and the track prepared, when all their work was undone. I have some photos from the draglift track going up between the debris.