Ski USA - Virginia

USA - Virginia: latest snow conditions round-up

AUSTRIA REPORT It's been a good week for snowfall in Austria with snow down to low levels over the weekend. Although Switzerland and the USA have overtaken Austria on the count of open ski areas, Austrian ski areas that are open have much more terrain available.

The four areas with the most terrain open in the world last weekend were all fully, or Partially, in Austria, topped by the newly opened Ischgl Samnaun (Swiss) (30/50cm / 12/20") cross-border area which opened last Thursday with 112km (71 miles) of slopes open - straight in at number one in the world. Equally noteworthy was that this was mostly natural snowfall from earlier in the month, with Ischgl reporting 60cm (24") of natural stuff, when many years of huge snowmaking effort is required to open much terrain. Worth noting too is that Solden, world number two for open terrain so far this season, was the first to pass the 100km (63 miles) open a few days before Ischgl opened. Solden's neighbour Obergurgl is in third place with 80km (65p miles) of runs already open.

Summary of forecast snowfall and ski conditions for resorts in USA - Virginia. Fresh snow is forecast at 4 resorts. Powder is reported at 0 resorts and 0 are reporting good piste conditions.