I am currently sat in the bar at the hotel Palarine and it's happy hour
We have never seen such good snow conditions over Christmas during our last 4 visits at this time of the year, yesterday in a 1ft of new snow was hard work on the legs, today was amazing with clear blue skies and well groomed piste.
If your coming out enjoy
The slopes are in perfect condition right now. I was up skiing yesterday and they're great! It's not warm but it's not cold it's just spot on weather wise these days The temperature is around 0 - 4 degrees and there's pretty much no wind so it's happy days on the slopes. Vallnord are great are looking after their pistes and we've had such a great early dumping of the white stuff that there is plenty to go on.
Hayley
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muttlee.matt74
Hi Steve, pics look amazing, how are the snow conditions holding up because i seems to be almost as warm if not warmer than in the UK at the moment over there... ?
Regards
Matt Lee8)
They both come out at the same place. It's a flat area with the main building in front of you.
You can see it on this photo - gondola on the left, chair on th right, arriving at the ski station.
snow conditions
muttlee.matt74
Have a great opening day tommorrow, the conditions look fantastic - with regards to the lifts, the cable car runs from the centre of the village to the base station, then there is chair from patagonia/crest - can you ski to the base station from the chairlift or is it flat. just a thought... 4 weeks and counting..
regards
Matt Lee
The mountain is open from 09:00-17:00 however the gondola from the village centre and the chairlift from near the Patagonia start at 08:30 so you can get up to the ski station, although no further lifts until 09:00. The first lift to close is the cable car linking Arinsal and Pal, which closes at 16:15, then other high lifts at 16:30, then the gondola/Crest chairlift run downwards only until around 17:15/17:30 so everyone can get back to the village.
There's around 80cm at the base so in theory yes there's plenty to open down to the Patagonia, and I would expect it will be open, although not confirmed yet as the mountain isn't open until the 30th.
As soon as we can get skiing we'll start our snow report on the weather page so you'll be able to see what's happening on there.
Steve
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muttlee.matt74
Cheers for the response Steve. Having been checking the webcams daily it looks stunning, although, the Arinsal one had a big snowflake on it for most of the day today, but i guess that is a good thing.
With regards to the mountain and forgive me if it is somewhere on the site somewhere, what are the opening hours, of the mountain, when is the first chair and when more importantly the last, there are 4 of us visiting for new year, 2 are in ski and snowboard school and the other 2 are free skiing. We are going to meet up with our learner members and join them after their lessons, but am not sure how much time we will have on the mountain until we have to ski down? Please can you help. Also do you know at present if there is sufficient snow that you can ski back down to the hotel Patagonia as this is where we are staying for the new years week.
Cheers and good skiing this weekend
regards
Matt Lee
There's about 80cm at the base so lots more higher up - we'll have a better idea when we ski it a week on Saturday!
muttlee.matt74
Guess the Covering of snow was a good one and i believe it is still coming down, is it giving a good base. whats it like on the mountain?
el cau ben
The first dump of the season looks set to hit on Friday, it could go on for a good 5 days, the slopes will be sorted for a good start I'd have thought.....there have been several snowfalls so far this month, but the temperature hasn't dropped enough for it to stick around. I'm already in resort so I'll keep you posted.
The temperature is around 0 - 4 degrees and there's pretty much no wind so it's happy days on the slopes. Vallnord are great are looking after their pistes and we've had such a great early dumping of the white stuff that there is plenty to go on.
