An oracle, not an encyclopedia

SnowVerdict answers one family of questions with numbers: is there snow at this resort, when will there be, and how sure can you be when you book. Every page opens with a dated, data-backed verdict computed from open data - not with adjectives.

Who runs it?

SnowVerdict is an independent site built and operated by GreenWire Media, a small digital agency in Riga, Latvia. It is written and maintained by people who ski the Alps and got tired of snow reports that read like brochures. No resort, tourism board or lift company pays for placement, edits a verdict, or sees anything before you do.

The site is rebuilt from source data every morning. What you read is what the models, the measuring stations and the avalanche services said today - the methodology page explains exactly how each number is computed and where every dataset comes from.

How is it funded?

Two ways, both disclosed here and marked in place wherever they appear:

• Airport transfers. The private-transfer links on resort pages go to TransferBnB, a transfer booking service that we operate. Where no live route exists, there is no link - the transport comparison stays complete either way, including train, bus and driving options that earn us nothing.
• Affiliate partners. Some planning links (accommodation, ski rental, lessons, insurance) are affiliate links to third-party partners. If you book through them, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.

All monetised links are marked with rel="sponsored" in the page source and sit in clearly labelled planning modules. The rule that governs all of it: money never changes a verdict. Snow numbers, season dates, reliability statistics and avalanche levels come from the data pipeline and are not editable by anything commercial.

What SnowVerdict is not

It is not a resort encyclopedia - others do lift inventories exhaustively. It is not an avalanche advisory: we display the official danger level with its source, and anyone travelling off-piste must read the full regional bulletin. And it is not a crystal ball - we publish probabilities computed from the last 15 winters and clearly dated forecasts, never guarantees.

Contact

Corrections are the most valuable mail we get. If a season date is wrong, a webcam is dead, or a number looks off, write to hello@snowverdict.com and it will be fixed in the next daily build. Press and data-licensing enquiries: same address.