2 Reports:
Yesterday
Fresh snow on hill.
Today
Fresh snow on hill.
Both days are looking at some 30-40 cm outside my door.
Today was a complete surprise. I just heard the snowplow arrive.
Now I rush to go skiing.
Happy New Year!
Location = Leysin.
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2 Reports:
Yesterday
Fresh snow on hill.
Today
Fresh snow on hill.
Both days are looking at some 30-40 cm outside my door.
Today was a complete surprise. I just heard the snowplow arrive.
Now I rush to go skiing.
Happy New Year!
Location = Leysin.
Sorry to miss out. We were up at 6:30AM checking the weather/snow reports.Quote:
Originally Posted by TeleAl
But, declined. Exhausted from yesterday.
What do you think the chances of G3 opening Tuesday?
Closed the last 3 days...tooo much blower?!? :)
G3.
G3 won't open the day after snow, unless it has been open already.
I have no idea when it will open, but this last storm(s) came from the West,
thus it should have piled up in there. Snowline remained below La Combe too.
The storm before came from the North, and that ruined it (my guess).
I've no data on the place and the plans.
Relying on internet like the rest of us for its opening.
Would be happy to learn that Cabane to Reusch is open.
And of course, Scex Rouge to Col du Pillon is always staring at me.:rolleyes2
You bring a rope, I'll bring a tree to tie it to.
Ripz can bring a roll of toilet paper.
Otherwise, I am going up there in the Summer with a pick-axe, some dynamite,
and a drill to widen that narrow (icy) footpath of a traverse over the cliffs.
No joke, I might just propose it to the new owners.
Fire in the hole!:FIREdevil
I am with ya on creating a few traverses...and safer traverses.Quote:
Originally Posted by TeleAl
I will be wearing Attends (adult pull-up diapers) if I am called up for duty.
Tuesday AM: Woke up at 6:30AM and saw the Bise whipping up the surf on Leman. No go 4 me.
Only the teleskis on G3 glacier are open; Sunshine...but -13c and winds 40 to 60km/h.
G3 closed early on Monday afternoon due to cold and winds.
After 24 hours of high winds, I imagine all the blower is wind-affected/crusted...
or else, blew off the glacier and fell on Les Diablerets and Villars. :rolleyes:
According to my boss (a local guide)
seven people died in avalanches in the Mt Blanc area this weekend.
(This is only second hand info but it might pay to be careful out there.)
Redskea got any more info on that one?
Not really.
2 on Mt Blanc.
An incident on the Italy side near Courmayer.
He is Italian and we are trying to communicate in French (mine is awful) and English, so the outcome might not be accurate!
I'll question him more tomorrow, I didn't really want to be at work today so I was trying to leave.
I heard that 50-60 alpinists die there every year and that skiing, an extension of mountaineering, is a major contributor to that statistic. Ski an off piste run in Europe and your life is your ante in a game where losing can mean checking out for good. Any truth in that?
From http://pistehors.com/comments/533_0_1_0_C/ .Quote:
Originally Posted by Pistehors.com
I skied 40cm very light pow in Ovronnaz yesterday. Sweet snow, barely crossed tracks all day. :D
a very cheeky powder day in st anton today. I rolled out of bed at 11 to see a grand total of 0cm new sitting outside my window. After humming and hawing for over an hour i finally decided to get off of my lazy ass and actually go to make some turns. Lucked out and made it to Schindler about 20 minutes after it had been opened. Easily 40-50cm of fresh up there with no one around except to bash the piste. highlight of the day was breaking trail into the top of schindler front face and get first tracks complete with face shots down it. Camera ran out of batteries this morning. sorry.
Powslut,
Any clue when they open Schindler's backside or is it open already? Might go there Friday - Sunday.
Coming to St Anton the 19th - and am I ready!!!:FIREdevil :FIREdevilQuote:
Originally Posted by powslut
Is the base good all over now, powslut?
http://www.gonemovies.com/WWW/XsFilm...gSchindler.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Hicks
My backside will be open shortly, Herr Kommandant.
Snow Report concerning Euros:
More specifically, Leysin (CH Alpes Vaudoises)
SE facing slopes are sliding to the grass.
Don't ask me why, I don't know for sure.
But, I have seen about 4 or 5 slides only, all in that aspect.
I suspect Hoar Frost, dating back before the snowfall.
These are not aspects getting too much sunshine.
As for Cham and the reported/rumored accidents, the mountains are wild.
Respect nature. You are your own responsibility. No law suits here when you mess up.
I agree with Roo pertaining Europe, your life is your ante.
I am happy to have lived through the learning curve, and hope that I stay lucky.
Because I've surely made mistakes and been lucky (and learned much!).
Its pretty much all open.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hicks
as for the base- there is still something to be desired but at the same time it really doesn't suck.
Me too!Quote:
Originally Posted by KANUTTEN
(20th actually but who's counting.)
I'll bring on the vaseline then...Quote:
Originally Posted by bad_roo
trying to get this image out of my head....Quote:
Originally Posted by Hicks
on a less grim note... does anyone know how conditions are in la grave? i'm probably out in the alps for 8 days, starting this saturday, and i'm trying to decide between la grave, or the area around morzine/cham/verbier. at the moment i'm thinking la grave, because i'm already paying for a place down there. anyone got any news from down there?
Cool thanks for the clarification. I'm guessing the normal summer route (there's a different "normal winter route"). Quite a strange time to be taking on the Mont Blanc, especially after such a horrible storm...Quote:
Originally Posted by Mulletizer
From the snow reports I've seen I'd say that LG is still a little bony but not too bad. Maybe Glisse will chime in with some real info though.Quote:
Originally Posted by vertigo
Word is that Morzine has the best conditions for this time of year in years. I'm going there on Sunday; got a good deal - €500 all up - daily taxis around town, airport pickups, chalet accommodation, food (except lunch), lift passes, booze. Should be cool, it's my big splurge for the winter.
Am in Verbier now. Conditions <2700 are good, above there was less snow and more wind. Fatal avalanche here yesterday - up high on the Bec des Etagnes, windslab, 22yo local. Verbier tracked out but some seriously good stuff left if you walk much or look to smaller local resorts.
Dear Franz,
As promised I finally show up in this renowned forum to re-establish Austrian ski dominance.
Thanks for an amazing ski trip and the lessons in the park.
Yours,
Hansi
Ha!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by bad_roo
Finally back home. Photos from La Grave, Chamonix and Nassfeld to follow. Awesome conditions in the last 2.
We were able to hit La Grave on the January 2 after it was closed on the 31st and 1st. Trees were great, the upper part needs a bit more snow, but the next dump will surely take care of that.
Hansi - glad to finally see you here!
Verb61 and TeleAl - sorry for not meeting up but I was eager to get back home and hit the fantastic conditions in the Eastern part of Austria. Conditions here in the East are fabulous.
Also - edited the L2A photos. Somehow they were mucked up before ...
No need to be sorry dude.Quote:
Originally Posted by Franz Klammer
Just means less people staying at my place.
Glad you got some good snow. We do too.
Next time...
as i may confirm ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Franz Klammer
Are we talking st. anton east or further?Quote:
Originally Posted by subtle plague
yesterday was the best day of the season so far...
http://www.skipass.com/articles/saison0506/bonheur.php
http://www.skipass.com/photos/articles/2399/2857.jpg
(tonio, my roomate, rides the Bro...)
bonheurific indeed! Les Sept Laux?
yep Andy, Les 7 Laux, couloir "Casa".
a guy died yesterday a few hundred meters from there. This place is dangerous and visible from the famous Pouta chairlift, many people think it's harmful to cross the barriers. But the "traversée" is tricky and the rocks are 20 meters high...
Yaah.
Back from tour de alpes again...
14 days, 7 resorts and...well...intresting stuff. More on that later.
In short
-Monte Rosa (22-23rd) : Shit. No snow at all.5cm max...
What base?
-Ps.Sant Bernard (23rd) : Shit. 20cm,rocks,rocks,rocks. And they lied that everything was ok up there and we bought 20€ passes for nothing.Fucking liars.
-Engelberg (23th-24th) : Quite good. Found good lines,relatively good coverage and even some face shots. Lots of rocks though..
Base is decent. Lot of crevasses on the glacier though.
-St.Anton (25th-28th) : So so. Tracked out, snow had gone bad and rocky couloirs.Last days there were decent with some fresh, nice lines down schindler and from Valuga II station,wich was a nice run...
Base relatively good.
-Nasfeld (29th-31th) : Gooood. Didnt fail this time either. Good groin deep pow, decent lines,faceshots.Pity that finding super lines is quite hard in that place.Thiick base.
-Krippenstein (1st) : Shit. We thought that we had found a shangri la, and all we found was crap snow,moguls and crappy lines. On good snow that place might be decent,but now...duh.. Upper parts of dachstein was windscoured,almost now left there.Base decent lower down.
-Andermatt (2nd-4th) Crap-Nice : First 2 days was a complete flat light,upper parts windscoured and super rocky. The last day was a sunny day with 20-40cm fresh. But still so much rocks around,that the skiing was really hazardous. Needs a 50-100cm more snow to be in good condition.
As a result of this Rock´n Roll X-travaganca, I have a pair of 103s that looks like they were shot with a shotgun. Bases are pimpled and edges blown out in 3 places...Time to glue thes sicks back to gether. :)
TR to follow sometime soon.
I guess that's why we arrived on the 1st and stayed till the 5th ?! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Meathelmet
we would have met, if you had read the forecast on the 1st. ;) :(
they got 70cm down in the valley.........
i got lots of core shots too, but i received them in bovec.
edit: those Big Daddies are insane. Atomic and all other companies will soon be bankrupt because noone will ever buy skis again after they got the grey BDs.
2m to solid rock impacts on the edge ? well a core shot, but the edge won't move or crack.
simply amazing. those skis are indestructable.
Saturday 07 Jan 06
What's all that moisture in La Grave doing?
Snowline is where? How much is falling? Etc.
Data if you are there please. Thanks.
Saas-Fee, Haute Valais; Skied on Jan 5 & 6th.
Bottomline: 50 - 60 cms still needed to open up all pistes and hide the rocks.
2 - 3 teleskis yet to open up.
8 - 10 pistes yet to open up.
2 - 3 pistes should be closed down. Way too rocky!
Pistes below glacier are boilerplate. Way too icy!
I took the telepherique down to village at 3PM each day.
Pistes on glacier in great shape. Which is why we went. Dependable and plenty of elbow room (even during High Season!).
Off-Piste:
Rope Ducking on Glacier - Off-piste boot+ high pow from storm on Dec 31/Jan 1st.
Some areas plaqued / wind-affected, many areas still remain feathery smoke.
Below Mid-Station - No way! Rock city w/ thin to no coverage.
At end-of-day Friday, Jan 6th: There were not many off-piste lines remaining that could be skied safely (i.e. w/o crampons, rope and harness...no thanks!).
So, we left Sat AM w/o skiing.
TR / Photos here:
http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=43178
euro outlook(except maybe for the farest southwest): dry, mild(0-minus 3deg C in 1500m) and sunny.
nothing to get excited about until next friday/saturday at least. the areas which got snow will keep it most likely because it is pretty dry.
and the others won't get any. it may get a bit colder from the southeast, but it will stay dry most likely.
Ski Tour tomorrow in Upper Styria - will report back with conditions out here in the East. In the meantime, enjoy my Euro TR so far:
http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=43204
Just returned from Warth.
Still found stashes of 30 - 40 cm untouched pow when hiking a bit for the turns. Almost converted my new Bro's to rock ski status while hitting all the hidden stones. Coverage was o.k. but they definitely need another 1-2 snow storms for a really good base and to rebounce from tracked-out status.
On the plus side: very low avy hazards right now.
Here's a few pics from touring on Hokar which is on the Rendl side of the valley in St Anton today. Great boot top powder was had. No action shots because i'm lame and didn't really feel like stopping.
The good old Rendlbahn:
http://www.biglines.com/photos/norma...ines_50143.jpg
At the top of the ridge:
http://www.biglines.com/photos/norma...ines_50142.jpg
Some gnar with Kapall in the bakcground:
http://www.biglines.com/photos/norma...ines_50146.jpg
I think i'm becoming Swedish:
http://www.biglines.com/photos/norma...ines_50145.jpg
Looking back up at the run:
http://www.biglines.com/photos/norma...ines_50144.jpg
is this the "hinterer rendl" / back of rendl ??
cool that there are still some lines left:)
was in stuben on thursday and it didn`t suck :the_finge
God dag, jag heter Powslut!Quote:
Originally Posted by powslut
... and I'll be your Powslut for tonight (and tomorrow for breakfast if you want me to).
Just arrived La Grave; skied today. Last snow several days ago, none predicted soon - see Lostintrees' map.
All classic lines are well skied; but powder alongside looks inviting but our guide warns us off as the coverage is very slight with still lots of rocks waiting to grab you.
Temps today were 0 isotherm at 1800 and rising: but tomorrow will be colder:
Some fresh lines to be found in the trees, but keep watching for bogies: skiable down to the village