Snow for the Euros.

snowing in innsbruck, 25cm and counting.

Just finished skiing. There is about 60cm+ of heavy ass snow in the trees and the wind is hovering around 75km/h at Galzig. Decent turns were had, but it was far from being hero snow. It's man eating snow and everything is trying to slide. Nothing but Galzig, Gampen, and Nasserein are open.

some photos of my girlfriend skiing today:

http://www.biglines.com/photos/norma...ines_50736.jpg

http://www.biglines.com/photos/norma...ines_50737.jpg

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Originally Posted by powslut

30cm fresh in town this morning, and have been blasting since 7:30 am...wind is howling though.

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That is the verification I was looking for. E-mail this morning said meter plus and still dumping. That is the same story from two people living 200 meters from the Galzig Bahn.

Flying tomorrow.... cant concentrate on work... visions of white room...
:fm: :FIREdevil :fm:

FUCK - can't find any accommodation in St. Anton for Friday night. Tried all the number the Tourismusverband gave me, but none of them has anything available.

Hmm, maybe the Kripp after all on Saturday.

and: to calm you down the arlberg avalanche guys updated at 11am saying 30 to 50cm+ have fallen. sooo 60cm could well be possible. a meter? well i do not think so. but they updated because avalanche danger has risen to level 4 (this morning at 7.30 they thought it would rise to 3..)
i still got no clue about what to do (hear me rap!), but im getting the red ranger road rage vehicle from my parents now ;)

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Originally Posted by H-man

That is the verification I was looking for. E-mail this morning said meter plus and still dumping. That is the same story from two people living 200 meters from the Galzig Bahn.

Flying tomorrow.... cant concentrate on work... visions of white room...
:fm: :FIREdevil :fm:

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just curious...where you flying out of and what time h-man?

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Originally Posted by subtle plague

and: to calm you down the arlberg avalanche guys updated at 11am saying 30 to 50cm+ have fallen. sooo 60cm could well be possible. a meter? well i do not think so. but they updated because avalanche danger has risen to level 4 (this morning at 7.30 they thought it would rise to 3..)
i still got no clue about what to do (hear me rap!), but im getting the red ranger road rage vehicle from my parents now ;)

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A meter is a bit far fetched but currently it is absolutely nuking outside. If it continues at this rate it very well could end with a meter of accumulation.

Level 4 is definately justified. Things were moving all over the place this morning and the wind continues to howl in the alpine

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Originally Posted by Franz Klammer

FUCK - can't find any accommodation in St. Anton for Friday night. Tried all the number the Tourismusverband gave me, but none of them has anything available.

Hmm, maybe the Kripp after all on Saturday.

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shitty, would love to offer you some floor space but i'm rammed in here as it is

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Originally Posted by powslut

shitty, would love to offer you some floor space but i'm rammed in here as it is

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No worries, Mrs Klammer (my mom) pays so we might settle for a hotel room anyway.

I'm still loving the snow prediction i made ..... on the nail and sweeeeet !!!

I'm still booked in for grand-massif / cham for next week , looks like i'll be lapping some untouched in and around the grand massif this weekend.

Guys, with the weird temperatures between now and saturday, the avalanche risk will be v.v.v.high. Be Very careful off piste.

Batteries in beacons ..... check
Take all your equipment up the mountain ...... check
I always get the tel number of the pisteurs office before heading off piste so i can contact the right people first.

Don't take too many risks between now and saturday, its going to be dodgy out there.

I know all of us are experienced / equipped / knowledgeable but our excitement sometimes makes us forget..


Lets go get some .....:FIREdevil

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Originally Posted by train07

just curious...where you flying out of and what time h-man?

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Flying Swiss out of Boston tomorrow at almost 7:00pm.

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Originally Posted by powslut

A meter is a bit far fetched but currently it is absolutely nuking outside.

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In my excitement I was reading 300cm. I'll take the 50 - 60 though..

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Originally Posted by subtle plague

and: to calm you down the arlberg avalanche guys updated at 11am saying 30 to 50cm+ have fallen. sooo 60cm could well be possible. a meter? well i do not think so.

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Just to reinforce the point here's the view from my bathroom window about 5 minutes ago.

http://www.biglines.com/photos/norma...ines_50738.jpg

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Originally Posted by powslut

Just to reinforce the point here's the view from my bathroom window about 5 minutes ago.

http://www.biglines.com/photos/norma...ines_50738.jpg

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Gotta love killing two birds with one stone. Taking a dump and chronicling the dump. Nice update.

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Originally Posted by str8line

Gotta love killing two birds with one stone. Taking a dump and chronicling the dump. Nice update.

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See, I told you to choose the Arlberg for your Yurp camp.;)

This is just down the road from Cham. Looks pretty bony. ;)

http://www.lescontamines.net/camera/camcol.jpg

but I see what you mean about Gressoney. Nuttn.

http://www.residenzadelsole.it/webca..._monterosa.jpg

Not sure about everywhere else, but in the shaded snow of the Alpes Vaudoises
hoar frost was growing before this storm like mold in my jogurt.

I am glad to hear it was a wet one, hoping it melted those pinions of hoars and bonded with the layer below.

Good that it is sliding now (controlling itself) and not later when unexpected.

Pick safe lines, and enjoy it. Teaching today, so cannot give an update.

Just back from Les GM... 50-80cm fresh on the ground - more in wind pockets - from this last storm. I got face shots. Was able to stick my entire ski pole into the snow in some places before hitting anything non-soft.

HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY.

Unfortunately freezing level is supposed to soar up to near 3000m so the mother nature that givith may taketh away... hopefully the warming won't fuck everything up.

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Originally Posted by TeleAl

Not sure about everywhere else, but in the shaded snow of the Alpes Vaudoises
hoar frost was growing before this storm like mold in my jogurt.

I am glad to hear it was a wet one, hoping it melted those pinions of hoars and bonded with the layer below.

Good that it is sliding now (controlling itself) and not later when unexpected.

Pick safe lines, and enjoy it. Teaching today, so cannot give an update.

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I was thinking the same thing about the lovely crystal in powsluts gloved hand in his "hoar" thread.

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Originally Posted by bad_roo

This is just down the road from Cham. Looks pretty bony. ;)

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So where are you going this weekend? Looks like good 1 Spatula 1 Monster 103 type weather...:D

This weekend I'll be packing Mrs Roo off to Chamonix and doing something that doesn't involve spending any money.

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Originally Posted by bad_roo

This weekend Mrs Roo will be packing me off to Chamonix and she'll be doing something that involves spending lots of money.

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Fixed it for you....

PDS CH-side. Weds.

Down Low - 40+cms and deeper around trees. Fluff on top...but "wet plaster" below.
Up High (2200m and above) - ~ 30cms of feathery fluff.

8:30AM - All lifts pointed upstairs closed. Mines blowing off all AM. Low vis and mist/snow
Top 15 cms was feathery, but fresh layers below are damp. I would rise for a turn and then descend thru the 15cms and get jerked by the "wet plaster". One of the few times in my life I wish I had 100mms under foot.
(I ski 74's and always get more chest shots...except TeleAl ;-)

1PM - Everything upstairs opened. Good vis. I had a 1.5 hr feeding freezy. :biggrin: I was exhausted and smiling so I quit at 2:30.

Plenty of great lines left to ski, but unsure what the result of tonight's temps will do to what has been put down.

My reco: Get high (-er than 2200m)

IT'S FUCKIN ON !!!!
ok i got my "car" convinced to go. and im off to the kripp this evening.
40cm at 900m.(avalanche guys measuring station)
50cm on top (the ski area says..) combined with the 15cm yesterday this is enough for me. sun tomorrrow. more snow on sat.
soooo franz, im there ...... and you ? :D

Subtle, I am going with St. Anton on Saturday. Sunday maybe the Kripp. I'll watch out for the lunatic with the Big Daddies.

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Originally Posted by bad_roo

This is just down the road from Cham. Looks pretty bony. ;)

http://www.lescontamines.net/camera/camcol.jpg

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Hell Yeah, good thing I'm driving down there tonight!

GET SUM Eurotrash! :)

Spent the morning at La Flegere. 20-50cm of fresh on top of a new more consolidated layer that covers all the old moguls. Which is to say ROCK AND ROLL!!

The warm temps have really started to wreck havoc however. Powder getting a lot wetter towards the afternoon and every face seems to have avalanched... although in truth they are mostly small-scale and not very deep, so burial chances seem slim, it does seem extremely dangerous out there. High temps in the forecast for tomorrow, so enjoy it while it lasts it may be gone by the weekend (although temps dropping starting Saturday).

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Originally Posted by bbirtle

The Vallee Blanche EXACTLY what Chamonix is about to me. Not the pussy roundabout tourist route that grandma could do - it's an incredible world back there like very little found elsewhere. You really aren't skiing in the spirit of Chamonix unless you have a harness on and scary spiky things dangling of it and your rucksack. Les Poubelles ends up at the Mer de Glace. Cosmiques starts at the Midi. The Col du Plan is a great non-extreme but fun blast. Hucking off seracs makes for incredible photos anyway. It just goes on and on back there... it's pretty safe to say I would not have come back here for season #2 if it weren't for the Midi lift.

I guess what I really love about Chamonix is how close the mountaineering and the skiing blend together... two passions rolled in one.

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uups soory, I kind of missed your reply.

I don't know what you are referring to as Vallée Blanche. neither poubelle, nor cosmique, rond, grand envers, nor whatsoever is called Vallée Blanche. Vallée Blanche is an annoyingly crowed 11 km touristic hike with fantastic scenery.

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I do enjoy runs like the Vallee Blanche but it doesn't really translate to better SKIING per se... it's just longer and look at the amount of lifts you have to chain together to do it.

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as far as I remember you have to take one lift to ski the 800 vertical meters of 40-45° couloir of cosmique. maybe it's just your personal definition of skiing per se that doesn't correlate with mine, but to me that is the ultimate definition of "skiing per se."

oh well.... im not going it seems. :frown:
"i got so many things to do"

well i should have known. to good to be true.

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Originally Posted by greg

I don't know what you are referring to as Vallée Blanche. neither poubelle, nor cosmique, rond, grand envers, nor whatsoever is called Vallée Blanche. Vallée Blanche is an annoyingly crowed 11 km touristic hike with fantastic scenery.

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The term "Vallee Blanche" is pretty ill-defined... when people that live in Chamonix talk about doing the Vallee Blanche they usually mean any of the routes that start from the Midi and end up on the Mer de Glace, so including the Envers de Plan. Guides "doing the vallee blanche" will often see how their clients are doing on the first steep slope and then decide how exciting of a route they want to take them on, given the Vallee Blanche Voie Normal is so boring. The words "Vallee Blanche" are on my map in between the Requin Hut and the Rongon.

My point is that a lot of the real gems in Chamonix - purely opinion here, and will differ depending on what you're after - kick off by a trip up the Midi, dump you at the end at Montenvers, or both. When I take the Midi, I feel like I'm somewhere incredible. When I have a pow day at La Flegere, I get better turns but feel like I could be anywhere in the world. (Similar feeling if you do the hikes from the top of the Grands Montets, like Trois Cols and so forth... )

Snow-forecast has some new setup, so I am unable to get their forecasts now.

Are there any new storms approaching in the near future?

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Originally Posted by bad_roo

but I see what you mean about Gressoney. Nuttn.

http://www.residenzadelsole.it/webca..._monterosa.jpg

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Let's all play 'Guess where edg is going in 3 weeks!' :cussing:

Don't fucking believe it - two years in a row. Gonna take the mountaineering gear if conditions don't improve.

edg

That's because you jinxed it a while ago without getting your balls bashed all up...:D

great i just found out im not likely to go skiing anytime soon because my ex employer managed to find out they had given me to much money when i began in 2002....and kept 75% of my january income.(and the bad thing is they are right... :( )
great... not that i didn't have any other problems......(university, findig a new job)

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Originally Posted by subtle plague

great i just found out im not likely to go skiing anytime soon because my ex employer managed to find out they had given me to much money when i began in 2002....and kept 75% of my january income.(and the bad thing is they are right... :( )
great... not that i didn't have any other problems......(university, findig a new job)

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that sucks! i was hoping you'd guide us in engelberg this season.

:tdo13:

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Originally Posted by subtle plague

great i just found out im not likely to go skiing anytime soon because my ex employer managed to find out they had given me to much money when i began in 2002....and kept 75% of my january income.(and the bad thing is they are right... :( )
great... not that i didn't have any other problems......(university, findig a new job)

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You should check whether they can do that. If they paid too much, they made a mistake. If the amount was "small enough", you received the money in good faith. Don't know about french/german laws, but in Norway they would act against the law if they did what you say they did.

snow-forecast is predicting heavy snow in alpe d'huez on thursday night and the predictions seem to be trending towards heavier snow as time goes on.

shame I'm arriving there on thursday night :biggrin:

let's hope it's not a case of snow-forecast insane optimism :tdo13:

Can somebody who has access to the 6 day forecast please inform about predicted snow accumulation in Alpe d'huez and chamo on thu, fri and sat, please?

yeah, looks like something big is hitting down in the southwest alps starting friday and going through the weekend. [/anti jinx]

I agree with Lostinthetrees about waiting until the 3 day comes out before getting too excited, but god knows we need some snow so I sure hope it's right!!