In reply to bigbobbyking:
Found this from a couple of days ago...not much to go on, but the photos are quite telling.
http://www.gulliver.it/itinerario-gite/1400/
looks like conditions there are pretty similar to the Dolomites (I live just south). So pretty lean. Basically says they've had reasonable snowfall only recently, combined with high winds and low temps. Result is summits stripped bare, with powder lower down,but no old snowbase, so pretty rocky.
Post edited at 19:24