On 23 June, 22:31, Nick wrote:
On Jun 23, 5:06 pm, "ronaldbutton" wrote:

I flew over the Alps last Monday ,around about Zermatt ,and there was masses
of snow ,and not only on the peaks....

I hope there's some serious warming down there soon, as am planning to
go next month and would like to do some moderately-high level walking
below the snow line...

That low down that way does seem to be filling

Nick

A friend of mine has just returned from a week's mountain biking in
the Macugnaga area of Italy. Turns out that he skiied most of it -
from the glacier summits over 4,000m right down to about 2,000m!