Snow Report Update for France

Snowboard Club UK reports: Continents With Resorts Open For Skiing: 2; Countries With Resorts Open For Skiing: 10; Ski Areas Open (Approximately): 200

• Great snowfalls in the Pyrenees - Formigal, Spain, may open early.

In France there's been big snowfalls in the Alps and the Pyrenees. With only Tignes open still it's difficult to find any official figures on snowfall, however the Pyrenees seem to be doing especially well in the past 72 hours with Cauterets, which received huge snowfalls last winter, reporting 1.3m (over four feet) of new snow. It will open on November 28th.

In the Alps there are many unofficial guesstimates of several feet (50-100cm) of new snow at resorts like Chamonix and Meribel where skiers and boarders have been hiking up to ski down the slopes.

However other than Tignes - where conditions are reported to be much improved with the new snow and skiing down to Val Claret - unless anyone breaks ranks, it looks like we still have to wait another 10 days for the first to open, Val Thorens on November 21st.

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