ouch!!! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by subtle plague
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ouch!!! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by subtle plague
Sometimes I really wish I wasn't colour blind.
I just really want a good damn radar loop like we have back in the good ol' States (intellicast style). I'm fucking stuck up here in Zermatt and it is blowing hard up high (63kmh @ Klein)
All the damn snow is gonna either be scoured or windfucked.
They pretty much suck, but this is the best you're going to get (as far as I know):Quote:
Originally Posted by nhtele
http://www.landi.ch/deu/0804_niederschlagsradar.asp
yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lostinthetrees
and as i explained further up: both scales are expected snow levels on the ground on that date, not new snow :)
so you can see the new snow when coverage gets thicker.
the bolam link on the other hand is new snow only. add up the 12h values to get storm totals.
they're all on my blog below! plus plenty of broken links.Quote:
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btw, i watch the radar loop all day (not constantly!) and looked like chamonix thru the alpe vaudiose got the best part of the dump.
idris - anything open in cham yet?
Get out there with the measuring stick!
my measuring stick is 170cms long and about 26cms wide. i'll be doing a thorough analysis up at g3 tomorrow. :biggrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by bad_roo
hmm nice week ahead. a bit warmer, but snow nearly everywhere. south and west should get te most. BOVEC has a big dump scheduled for tomorrow(in addition to their 100cm base at1500m) and a nice outlook for saturday.
does anyone know the opening dates ?? :D
http://img.snow-forecast.com/images2...xt3to6days.jpg
Alpe d'Huez.
You can normally tell when Snow Forecast are starting to get antsy about a longer range forecast as it starts to downgrade the precipitation totals every six hours. With this one the precip totals are constantly being upgraded as the picture becomes firmer.
the underlying model is very consistent this time. :)
the dump is pretty certain because it is triggered by larger scale weather patterns.
I'm trying to restrain myself.....
Game fucking on!!
Excuse me.
Burp.
Sick and ashamed and happy (and nothing is ever in stone),
d.
dolomites and lombardy alps have been already puked well. Appenninis got more than one meter. Western alps (north and south) are dry. If this forecast is right, the next big thing will be ok for SW, but - still - NW will be dry :cussing:
According to the St.Anton website, there is hardly any (natural) snow there now? Anyone have more insight about the snow situation in the north and north easternly alps?
south side of central alps (madesimo, livigno....) are really OK for this part of the season. Also, there's an holiday next week for milan people (our patron is s. ambrogio so we don't work on december 7th in addition to december 8th) so the lift system in lombardy alps will be open all week.
Les Sept Laux reported 30cm of fresh last night.
sadly, it fell on dry rock, so that's all there is (at the moment). :frown:Quote:
Originally Posted by bad_roo
http://www.skiinfo.fr/snowreport/index.jsp?count=25
looking good for most of the french and italian alps, alpe vaudiose and valais in switz. :cool:
get yer stoke on! :FIREdevil
Nice find. Looks interesting for Friday...
Well, we got a nice 30 - 40 cm last weekend, so it's on HERE, bitches.:FIREdevil
I hear ya... :cussing:Quote:
Originally Posted by verbier61
Talked w/ someone from Verb and he said there is 1 measly lift open at this time. What the huh!
PDS Avoriaz is open for most of their pistes. Even PDS Les Gets (below Avoriaz) had 3 pistes open last weekend.
Gonna make a call up to the Hospice Gd-St-B to see if it is skinnable at this time. Planning on skinning up there next week (Weds) ...if this forecasted storm fills in the holes w/ 30 - 50cm's. You're welcome to join in.
well the northeasterly alps are really good (read:salzburg /east) north are crap. west of insbruck there is basically nothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by KANUTTEN
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Originally Posted by subtle plague
Subtle, can you specify a bit?
Do you have firsthand experience of whats hot and whats not?
48 hours...
:)
firsthand ? HAH ! i wish..... :(
no, just guys who skied there and snow measurements from the official avalanche guys http://www.lawine-steiermark.at/ (for example1.5+m in the northern mountain regions of the steiermark... ) the glaciers in austria are ok though hear.
here is a pic from the northern steiermark. at about 1200-1400m
edit: right link
remember the bovec! ;)
"Veter se je zvečer obrnil v severovzhodnik.
V Julijskih Alpah je na 1000 m do 100 cm snega, nad 1500 m pa od 130 do 150 cm."
edit: and here is a pic from austria this weekend: Kaunertalglacier.
Snow in Northern Styria (Tauplitzalm)
http://lawine-steiermark.at/images/sn_taup.jpg
150cm!!!
Dude,if you would be in court,you would have gotten yourself convicted by contradicting yourself...Quote:
Originally Posted by subtle plague
Kaunertal is west from the insbruck!
:biggrin:
And that bovec is looking like i have to go to check it out in the christmastime...
Damn!
well actually that stations is nuts.(they all seem to be) as it would be -150cm. so if it snows 1,5m they'll have a zero base ;)
well no i did not your honor ;) as i said " the glaciers are ok though."Quote:
Originally Posted by Meathelmet
and "that bovec thing" is gonna get dumped upon again on saturday :eek:
and with a bigger MAYBE again on tuesday. I want to go there next week (hey only 950km ;) :eek: ) But they do not seem to open anytime soon and there are no infos on their site.....the only infos i found: "sometime in december. " Haha THANX i wouldn't have guessed.... :cussing: :(
Subtle,Quote:
Originally Posted by subtle plague
As I mentioned before I'll be home in Graz from January 6 onwards. Let me know if you want to hook up for a trip to Krippenstein or Bovec.
If I had to make a choice now, I'd hit Obertauern or Loser. Not sure when Krippenstein opens, Tauplitz opens on December 3. Plenty of info available at Bergfex.
Holy crap, that's the resort where I learned to ski.. Nice to see that it's still the cheapass schneeloch it used to be!Quote:
Originally Posted by Franz Klammer
does anyone really read my posts here especially the ones about the station ? ;)
but yes it is still the schneeloch it used to be....
and franz: sure. i'll be coming down some days for sure.(and i hope i'll get a new student job soon for if not it won't be many :( )
if im not around look here: www.freeskiforum.de , most of them hang out in the german/austrain alps.
I read. Thanks for the weather links and your insights.Quote:
Originally Posted by subtle plague
I follow closely the events in Western CH (live in Geneve).
Therefore, I am not very interested in Eastern CH and the Austrian Panhandle.
Keep posting.
So you'd say there probably wasn't anything worth skiing at Les 7 Laux at the moment? davidof's report looks OK and with another two feet predicted for the weekend that could turn into something pretty sweet indeed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ripzalot
i wasn't being that serious, but thanks for stroking my ego....... ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Lostinthetrees
meat referred to the station even after i said it's pretty useless :)
and i'll keep posting until ill go skiing myself :) (and afterwards ill start posting again... you cannot stop ME, noone can ahahahhahahhahahhahahh )
edit: btw. i phoned bovec(yeah i know, im a desperate fool ;) ) and a likely opening date would be the 10th. so if i ski thursday and friday somewhere in austria, i could go down later that weekend ....hmmm.
Looks like zermatt/cevinia are going to get dumped on this weekend. snow forecast is saying 27+ cms on friday night.
I'm driving to the alps tonight for a long weekend, I can't decide whether to go to austria or switzerland .....
My only concern about switzerland is gettiing there and getting whiteout avie danger conditions ......
i wouldn't go anywhere high and glaciated, especially not on the south side or in the central alps. the "föhn" will be really strong and it will dump so stormy whiteout is nearly guaranteed o the south side and "just" storm on the north side.
basically that is why im staying here(well im visiting my gf in bavaria, but no skiing for us because of the weather)
if you really want to, id probably choose an austrian resort with a decent base which doesn't go to high but won't get rained upon once the föhn breaks down.
because snow levels will be around 1200m i'd guess.
This time next week I'm gonna be skiing! Woo hoo. Hoping the megadump arrives in Alpe d'Huez and that the howling wind and blizzards this opening weekend keep the crowds away. That would rule. Then we rock up midweek and ski a bit of fresh. That's the script anyway. Seeing as I'm running the show, it will probably dissolve into an umentionable shambles and none of this will come to pass.
hmmm ... i was thinking that.
I'm debating around innsbruck. Kaunertal but thats really high, Stbai ... too high. Axams maybe but i can't get can't sense out of the website to get a proper base check.
Anything east of here is a mystery to me as i have only been to austria once before ..... in 1982 ...... when i was 9 ..... to learn to ski.