This is pretty nuts

[santacruz skier]

Not sure I would call it exactly "great" as overall the season was pretty average but with a bunch of epic days. I think at least in this part of Swiss Alps the main issue was that snowfall wasn't too frequent and snow mostly arrived in a few massive dumps say every 3 weeks or so. Big dumps meant that whatever didn't slide got skied out very quickly. Sometimes 10 days after the snowfall it looked like it hadn't snowed for weeks. I would rather have smaller dumps of snow but weekly - snow sticks better like that.

I was getting snow alerts constantly from Chamonix….. Verbier isn't that far, is it?

 

[snow addict]

Yeah, we generally have the same weather, if it's snowing in Chamonix it's snowing in Verbier and the other way around. But system-generated powder alerts are based on prediction and not on actual snowfall, so just because you get an alert doesn't guarantee a powder day, or it can only couple inches on the ground. As I said we had plenty powder days this season, I think I totalled about 15 - even a "weekend warrior", a friend who was ski-bumming got around 25, but this snow just didn't stick around and a week after a dump things quickly went back to the way they had been before the snow. Similar situation was last season, though for an different reason - strong wind from the South which didn't stop from December till April and was responsible for eroding the snow.