>>2016875Yeah, the further from the coast, the lighter the snow. Near the coast, you get heavy, dense coastal snowfalls that result in a deep and consolidated snowpack. Far from the coast, you get lighter, continental snow that is good for skiing because it's powdery, but doesn't pack as well. It also doesn't snow as much in a continental climate. This makes the continental snow more prone to avalanches.
So, to compare American snow to European snow, I'm pretty sure the Alps are somewhere in the middle, having an intermountain snowpack, which would be denser and heavier than the Colorado Rockies but not to the point of a coastal range. This would make them most similar to the Tetons or Wasatch mountains in America.
Of course, the Alps are such a huge range that the snowpack varies dramatically.
