Glad you said it. Truth hurts, reality bites. Welcome to the "ol' Man's ski club". ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ripzalot
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Glad you said it. Truth hurts, reality bites. Welcome to the "ol' Man's ski club". ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ripzalot
3 exclnt days skiing boot-high+ pow. My wife is now a comfirmed powder hound and following me everywhere, anywhere.
Saturday - PDS CH "backwoods" ski station. No chairs up high opened all day (viz, hi winds, avi-clearing, etc). Leaving us w\ 400+m pow lines to ski in the alpage. Short hike out and another circuit.
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Sunday - Leysin. Almost no snow under Tour d'Ai, all blown away! But under the Berneuse over-boot-high laps 'til we hooked up with TeleAl's gang. Bill is nutz, completely. Cannot follow him. But, he did show Lisa and I the "wrap-around" and she loved it. Big confidence builder 4 her. Lapped it twice. After 3 hours Leysin was destroyed.
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Monday - PDS CH. 10cms new and plenty of wind filled in all the damage. No competition for our lines. Again, 400+m lines boot-deep.
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Back home resting my bones.
Will be back out there on Thurs/Fri/Sat. Hopefully storm-chasing. Any takers?
but in my case it's only temporary. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Lostinthetrees
ohhh, that hurtz. ...but you are right, I am an "old powder hound". :biggrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ripzalot
EDIT: and proud to have that title.
Had to look up "labile" in the dictionary, gotcha.Quote:
Originally Posted by KANUTTEN
Today was excellent, a day where it was well worth it - but consider there was a queue of over two hours to get onto the bottom cablecar, and that's after the "Tokyo subway" style bus journey. I nearly collided with other skiers on open bowls on perhaps a dozen occasions - it was really a race on every run to stay ahead of the mob and forget about avalanche safety. By 10:30 AM, the parts of the mountain easily accessible to those without serious local knowledge were completely tracked out and visitors were skiing pistes again. (We know some good pow stashes so we skiied fresh all day but 90% of the people were not that lucky).
Those going to Les Grands Montets today endured another 1-2 hour queue to be surprised that the entire mountain was already completely tracked out from top to bottom, from every nook to every cranny. This because yesterday the resort was in fact all open but the Office of Tourism, all the electronic lift status boards around town, and the website were listing it as "closed". (Again, we have a friend in Argentiere that tipped us off, but for 90% of the people, they were not so lucky)
Good skiing? Yes. But like I said, comes with a lot of baggage and I'm looking forward to trying out some new spots with TeleAl tomorrow and getting the fuck out of Dodge for awhile.
That's my random rant for the evening. Now back to your regularly scheduled stokeathon. :biggrin:
where i was last week ;)
http://www.wetter-zentrale.com/cgi-b...pl?read=835215
Hows Engelberg doing now? Or any guesses how it would be doing in two weeks?
Trigger pulled :yourock: :yourock:
Arriving in Verbier on March 6th. Hopefully just in time for the crowds to have gone home and the powder to have built up............
BT
yup latest rumours are all true lots of snow to be found almost everywhere.
here a few of todays teasers...less all the crowds some of you are fighting...hehehehe
Trubsee = 115cms
Titlis = 195cms
Snow conditions varied off piste. Needs some more snow to make it epic for you but coverage is good.
A few flurries over the next 6 days, no major dumps.
Austrias still the main place to get some in the next 10 days i think.
try to upload the pics here on TGR or on biglines and link them. im soo lazy. :D
but nice they are. as yoda would say.
edit for cant: pretty bad according to SLF stations. it needs a few more northern dumps. it did not benefit from the recent dumps that much AND did not have a decent base. but andermatt is right around the corner and they a faring quite well it seems.
Hmmm, okay.
So heres the question. Flying to zurich march 2-12th. Where would the best place to go that has easy train access. St. Anton was the original plan, but looks pretty booked up for housing.
My dad is coming with me, so some piste options would be necessary. But also enough to keep me happy off piste for a week.
also, an area with mags to ski with is a plus.
andermatt. i'd say. or to the unexplored southern switz/tessin. some resort got 120cm of fresh over night from yesterday to today. and the south side will see some more snow(but not such ammounts ;) ) until the weekend. it will be clear and rather cool then :)
andmatt could/ will be tracked by then i guess. but you can still score freshies on the more "interesting" routes because most offpiste skiers are on the mellow side there. :)
edit: wait. youarrive on march 2nd. wait what the weather does. it could get quite nteresting by the end of feb so my recommendations may change. ;)
I guess its anyone's guess for two weeks out...and to be honest all these areas look pretty damn good.
The only issue with waiting is finding a place that close to leaving...doesnt bother me at all, but my pop is a little worried by the "we'll meet in zurich, check the weather, and then go somewhere" planning process.
a video from last weekend. even further east than the kripp.
http://members.inode.at/gernot.schwa...n/P1000529.MOV
Just came back from Arlberg, scored 4 epic days. Last mini storm was on Friday, roughly 20-40 cm cover with more in windloaded spots, conditions fairly stable.
Kanutten sorry I missed you on Friday, please leave cell phone switched on next time.;)
Place booked in Engelberg March 3-11th. Lets hope it starts to snow between now and then....
How easy is transportation to Andermatt from Engelberg? Looks like there is a train, but its not exactly direct. I will be without a car for the trip.
Well, it was more to it than that. The f***ing phone died on me! I have just learnt that humidity+sonyericsson=no love. Left it in my chestpocket and the humidity from general sweat andsoforth killed it. Sorry about that, but not much I could do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hicks
Let's say next time. Glad to hear you had a good time, as I indeed had:biggrin:
It is easy to get to Andermatt from Zurich by train, and it is easy to get to Engelberg from zurich by train, but I actually think it is a bit cumbersome to get to Andermatt from Engelberg by train. Check the excellent website;Quote:
Originally Posted by CantDog
http://www.sbb.ch/en/
Seems like it will take you almost 4 hours with a couple of trainswitches. But it is doable. Today you could leave at 17.15 and arrive at 22.03. Not too bad.
the combe opened today after being closed since the storm. 110cms accumulated, soft and untracked on upper 3/4s, heavy consolidated on lower 1/4. skiers right was destroyed by avy bombs but skiers left was schweet all the way down. p.s. reusch is open too. :D
http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/4155/img14106mg.jpg
Verbier yesterday 2-19
http://www.swissguides.com/trips/060...e/dsc_6888.jpg
B carefull out there......
ha! you know Hans?Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Tim
Holy Shit, that's awesome.Quote:
Originally Posted by subtle plague
Auf der Rax, das ist doch am Semmering. Weit, weit im Osten ...
jau das ist an der rax war wohl ganz nett bei denen ;) .
hey pssst something's coming. arctic airflow from the north by the end of feb. it will get cold, but it is not clear whether it will dump inthe alps or not, but the weather geeks are already pretty excited :D .
Yes I've skied with him a bit over the years. He's a great guide too.Quote:
Originally Posted by verbier61
Looking out of my office window in London, it is snowing. Not settling though so no Primrose Hill turns look likely:frown:
Hey, it even snowed in Delft, NL atleast some snow was to be seen on the ground in the morning.
oh oh.
seems like winter will be ending below 2000m.
3.3. is the day. from there on it will get warmer and start nuking in the west. above 1300-1500m. snow levels will stay in the valleys until thursday and rise quickly. above 1800-2000m there will be a lot of new snow in the west.
the eastern alps are fucked though. föhn and warmth will melt erverything pretty good.
this trend is pretty certain. although details(snow amount and snow levels +-few hundred meters.) may vary.
and on march 8th it would be summer :eek: (0 deg in 3000m +). but that is so far away so i hopethis turns out to be false. so this is not a prediction. :)
Does Engelberg fall into the "western alps" designation? Please say yes.
Don't worry, Cant, it's going to be cold and snowy in Engelberg next week. 30cm between now and Fri is forecast, with temps below freezing at 1000m.
edg
i'm hoping SP is wrong, but if true winter is going to go out with a bang. looking cold and dumpy over the next 6 days.
in the meantime, it's been a great cpl days running pistes. sunny mild and great coverage. i'm not complaining one bit. :cool:
keksie in stubai today. we had fun. still snowing a bit.
Loving my choice of Les Deux Alpes / La grave from the 3-12th of March ....
Really really loving it ....
"Come to me my precious gotama's , we have work to do"
If anyone is in La grave that week, let me know and we can hook up, i'll be getting a guide as its my 1st time there ....:FIREdevil
Considering popping out for the weekend - will PM you
Tuesday 28 February 2006 09h00
Leysin, Suisse Altitude = 1264m
It's snowing.
A quick look at the sat image says it won't be much,
but it is better than nothing.
And more could follow.
hope so, go get it al!Quote:
Originally Posted by TeleAl
tghis first wave does not bring that much new snow, but i may be 30cm until thursday. snow levels will be down in the valley until friday.
then the motto is: head west, but go high.
it will dump quite a lot. i can pretty much confirm what i said in my last post.
huge dump in the west from friday to sunday, but snowlevels rise quickly. im still hoping for a few hundered meters lower,but right now it looks like 1800-200m on sunday.
hey cham mags, i'm sneaking out early for corporate ski trip, should be skiing on my own next wed-friday, let me know if you're around.
edit- will be staying argie
Snowing hard even here east of Cologne, so Arlberg should be gorgeous again this weekend when I'll be down.:FIREdevil
I think i'm going to need some spare snow chains just in case for saturday morning ...
The freezing levels not much fun though ... looks like it will be raining in resort on saturday.
I'm trying to decide whether or not La grave will even be open on Saturday or sunday with this sort of snowfall. I'm trying to work out which day to book the guide for in La grave .... Sunday or Mon ?
Whats the history in la grave after dumps like this ?
http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/a...1&d=1141134035