Some large late-season snow falls in Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and the USA has brought powder skiing conditions to many of the several hundred ski resorts where the 08-09 ski season is still continuing.
In Canada, Marmot Basin near Jasper where the ski season ends this weekend reported powder snow conditions yesterday following a fresh fall. Several feet of snow also fell at the weekend in Colorado where all the big resorts have closed but Arapahoe Basin and Loveland are still operating with Echo Mountain and Aspen Highlands open at weekends.
Europe’s most southerly resort, Sierra Nevada in Spain, received another foot (30cm) of snow at the weekend and that resorts in Italy’s Monte Rosa area have received up to 1.5m (five feet) of new snow over seven days.
In Switzerland, Andermatt, Saas Fee and Zermatt have all added 30cm (a foot) of snow or more to their totals in the past week. The same three resorts have the most snow in the country with 400 – 470cm (13 – 16 feet) on upper slopes.
In Andorra, where the lifts will run until May 3rd at GrandValira, there was another 6cm (three inches) of snow on Tuesday.

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