Ski Total guests have been enjoying the fantastic snow and skiing conditions. As the resort has been cut off due to the heavy snowfall, it’s been more like an exclusive ski club with no outsiders coming in to take advantage of the snow and slopes.

Although the resort has been cut off the authorities have advised they expect the road to be back open before the weekend. Leavig guests in ther Chalet Hotel Abendrot and Chalet Zita to take full advantage of the facilities of their chalets and the resort.

Andreas Steibl, The Paznaun-Ischgl Tourist Director put out the below press release to give a little more insight to the extent of the snowfal over the past few weeks.

The top Austrian ski resort of Ischgl has been cut off this week after huge snowfalls caused the closure of access roads.

Nearly 1,000 British holidaymakers are staying in Ischgl and the neighbouring village of Galtur in the Tirol and have been enjoying excellent skiing and boarding conditions.

Four days of non-stop snowfalls until yesterday (Monday) dumped five feet (150cms) of snow, which brings the total depth of snow on the mountain to eight feet (250cms).

The main access road, along the Paznaun Valley from Landeck to Ischgl, was open at the weekend, allowing holidaymakers to get in and out of the resort. But since then the road has been closed as a precaution because of the risk of avalanches.

The road between the village of Kappl and Ischgl has been shut, as well as the road beyond Ischgl to the smaller resort of Galtur, also popular with British skiers.

“Although the roads have been closed, the resort itself has been operating as normal with skiers and boarders experiencing amazingly good conditions,” said Paznaun-Ischgl Tourist Director Andreas Steibl.

It’s understood that most UK tour operator arrivals and departures took place as scheduled last weekend, and few people had to extend their stay. Changeover time for most British holidaymakers is weekends and access routes are expected to be open again by this coming weekend.

Thirty-six of Ischgl’s 44 skilifts were open today (Tuesday) and 155 kilometres of runs.

“The forecast for the rest of the week is for sunnier conditions, so we don’t think there will be problems with people getting in and out at the weekend,” said Mr Steibl.

British ski instructor Sarah Hannibal, who works in Ischgl, said: “The skiing conditions are fantastic, although obviously no one is going off-piste at the moment because of the amount of snow. It has been very windy at the top of the mountain which means visibility can be affected by wind-blown snow – but the holidaymakers are having a wonderful time.”

Sarah added: “Many ski instructors who live in other parts of the valley are the ones affected most by the conditions and they have had to make arrangements to stay with friends or at hotels in Ischgl. That includes me – I live in Galtur and have been stranded in Ischgl – but it’s no hardship when the skiing is so good. And having this amount of snow at this stage of the winter means that everyone can look forward to a fabulous season.”

What better way to round up the snowfall from this week than a gallery of the images send in by our staff directly from their respective resorts and travels from training locations back to resort.

Waking up to snowfall on the 5th December the first images started coming in from across the Alps:

Val d’Isère

Saas Fee

St Anton

Les Arcs

Less images came in from resort on the 6th December as staff got to work with a good set of images coming in from Courchevel and the odd image from St Anton:

Courchevel 1850

St Anton

Then yesterday the 7th December there was an influx of images from across the Alps showing the extent of the heavy snowfall from throughout the week so far, with pictures coming in from Switzerland, Austria and France.

Saas Fee

Val d’Isère

St Anton

We finish with pictures taken throughout today of the crystal clear blue sky’s over pure white mountain tops, firstly taken from in the mountains and then further down tyhe mountain and on into the valleys below, 8th December:

Pictures from across the Alps taken on the 8th December

We will continue with our snow reports and updates throughout the ski season and as new pictures and videos come in we will endeavour to upload them and make them available as soon as possible.

When I got in the office this morning I have to admit that after seing the images of snowfall earlier this week the below photo was confirmation that heavy snow has truely arrived in St Anton.

What better reason is there to book your St Anton ski trip than the knowlegde of the fantastic snow conditions in resort.

The video says it all 18 inches of fresh snow in Tignes and it keeps falling, perfect skiing conditions for the start of the season.

As the updates keep coming in we’ll keep you posted on the snow conditions across the Alps.

The snow keeps on falling and our staff in resort were up early this morning taking pictures and checking out the fresh snow.

With a blanket of snow on the slopes and the gondola open skiers are taking to the slopes and enjoying the fresh powder.

The snow continues to fall and is forecast to continue through the week and become heavier towards the end of the week.

The below video has just come in from Courchevel 1850:

Just when I thought I had recieved all of the images from across the Alps I get a few more. Our staff have finished their training in St Christoph and are heading to their respective resorts.

On their way through Sankt Anton they stopped off to take these 2 images. They couldn’t resist as the snow is getting thicker and ski conditions have arrived.

The snow has been falling constantly for the last 2 days and doesn’t look like it’s going to stop, with more forecasts predicting heavy snow by Tuesday things are certainly looking up for the start of the ski season.

After a day of constant emails, pictures, videos and updates from across the Alps here is a quick summary of the snow conditions so far.

Our staff have sent in this image of the Sport Hotel in St Christoph where they have been training showing that the snow has well and truely started falling, at 1800 metres St Christoph gives a good idea of the snow levels across the Alps let alone Austria. As our snow updates throughout today have shown we have received pictures and videos from Saas Fee, Les Arcs, St Anton, Val d’Isère and Courchevel all with the same message, the snow has been falling since Sunday and is forecast to continue through the beginning of this week.

A message form Meribel
“Everywhere is now covered in a film of white powder that is only going to get deeper as the day goes on. Word from the lift pass office is the expectation of opening on saturday 10th December, if the snow keeps up it could easily be sooner.”

We have just received the below video from in-front of Ski Total’s Chalet Valpierre, one of our Platinum ski chalets in Val d’Isère.

That’s right following a night of snowfall Saas Fee has a blanket of fresh white snow and the mountains above the resort remain covered in snow clouds. Our resort team managed to take the below pictures last night and this morning to give the perfect view of fresh snow in Saas Fee.