Cascade de Lay Zinal Feb 08

North Face of Tour Ronde on BMG alpine assessment September 2007	Leysin 15 Nov 2007

The first snowfall of the winter has just fallen 9th to 15th November. In Leysin 80cms fell over the weekend. Being in the northwest Leysin does catch more than it's fare share of snow.

Many locals were caught out and still had their summer tyres on as the autumn had been such a settled season. A few cars were seen in the fields to the side of the road.

This is a great start to the ice climbing and ski conditions as we now have a reasonable base to ski on and enough snow to feed the icefalls.

The ice climbing conditons have been much better this year. Kandersteg and the usual high venues have been excellent giving high quality ice formations.