It may have been officially still summer, but winter came early to the Alps this weekend as many areas saw significant snowfall.
Higher elevation ski resorts in the Alps received 2-8″, with the biggest reported snowfalls being more than a foot. Glacier 3000, in Gstaad, Switzerland, reported almost 16″.
A number of glacier ski areas are already open for skiing. Zermatt and Saas-Fee in Switzerland both have lifts running.
Hintertux, Austria’s only 365-day a year resort is open, as is Passo Stelvio in Italy.
With many of the mountain states in America also seeing snow this weekend, it’s time to start getting excited. It’s September, it’s getting cooler, and the snow is falling.
Winter’s coming…
Thank goodness there is some COVID sense out there and ski resorts opening to operation. Hopefully Europe will allow us to go skiing there.
“COVID sense” includes not letting Americans in to Europe.
My comments to “Zermatt and Saas-Fee in Switzerland, Hintertux in Austria, and Passo Stelvio in Italy are expected to open sooner rather than later.”: All of these resorts are open now, Zermatt and Hintertux are open for 365 days a year, Saas-Fee only with a break in late spring and early summer, Passo Stelvio is open only in summer and autumn There are many other glacier ski resorts here in Europe which will be open later this month but the recent snowfall is negligible.
Good morning Jan,
thank you, I’ve updated to reflect. And thank you for always keeping us straight on our non-North American info, appreciate it!