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Is it time to start buying airline tickets? Hmmm... might need to get my shit together. :D
Awesome. I can't wait to ski with you again for another edition of this powdery tradition.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Mike
Yaasss yaas?Attachment 500289Quote:
Originally Posted by skaredshtles
Can't wait
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Moar Felsental
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The Tgoms tram seen from the Rueras train station:
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Andermatt creek...
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Disentis top lift station.
I'm gonna do a week before Mt Lodge
Thinking of St Moritz, or...?
Anyone else going solo that want to hit up some other place first?
Bought my airfare, it's afishul!
Any insider intel on St Moritz?
I'll be swanning around with my family a bit before the grumble, but here's some info on St. Mo:
There are 4 different ski areas: Corvatsch, Corviglia, Diavolezza, Lagalb where only the last 2 are sort of ski between. Other than that, getting to one another requires trains and busses, which are excellent and included in your hotel fees. Each is huDge and it's not worth hopping between in the same day except Diavolezza/Lagalb. Another exception is the Tour de St. Moritz involving skiing the "black slope" from Gland d'Alva on Corvatsch down to the Signal cable car which gets you up on Corviglia. If staying on the St. Mo/Celerina/Samedan side, you can ski from Corvatsch to those locales.
Corvatsch is the biggest with village bases Sils and Surlej/Silvaplana. Sils is the furthest removed from the other ski areas, but they do have a few less expensive hotels.
This map kind of distorts the distance from Surlej/Silvaplana to Diavolezza/Lagalb. The sidecountry run off the top of Corvatsch down to Pontresina is amazing, but has a long, long flat out to Pontresina proper. One can take a horse drawn buggy from the Roseg Gletscher hotel down to Pontresina for 25chf.
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Corviglia is sort of "the" St. Moritz area with bases in St Moritz Bad (Signal cable car) or St Moritz proper (the funicular from "downtown" St. Moritz) or Celerina (Marguns gondola). One can also ski all the way over to Samedan, arguably the best transport hub in the valley, but Samedan has no lifts back up to Corviglia. Celerina and Samedan have the least expensive hotels in the area with the https://www.innlodge.ch/en/, and https://www.saluver.ch/, each of which are a ways from the Marguns gondy, but there's busses. In Samedan, which is a rail hub, there's https://laagers.ch/de/ .
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There are lots of apartments to rent, but they do not include the half price lift tickets. Staying in a hotel, you lift ticket to all 4 major areas including the busses and trains is around $50US. The sleeper about St. Mo is the amount of relatively easy access nutblowing sidecountry
Train schedules:
https://www.sbb.ch/en/buying/pages/f...fahrplan.xhtml
Bus transit:
https://engadinbus.ch/
St. Moritz Bad has a few good deals down by the Signal cable car as well as Berghotel Randolins which is up on the slopes above St. Mo Bad but kind of isolated,
Downtown St. Mo is expensive. It's kind of cool with lots of wealth glamming around and a swell place to blow money. There is an inexpensive kebab/pizza spot there Pizzaway. Chesa Langaard is the least expensive hotel there but not recommended.
I liked Celerina as a base, with direct access to Corviglia and good bus access to Corvatsch and bus or rail access to Diavolezza/Lagalb up towards the Bernina pass.
Be sure to take the time to go ski Lagalb, a steep 2600 vertical foot hemisphere served by 1 tram that cycles every 10 minutes. Quadburn. If there's enough base, there's a 10 mile run from the top of Diavolezza down to Morteratsch train station/hotel. It's a great spot but isolated.
St. Mo is awesome if there's a series of "southern" storms. But it can be dry. If it looks like the northern storms are happeneing, consider the JungFrau area where I'd recommend either the https://www.hotelregina.ch/rooms/?lang=en in Wengen, about 1000 feet from the Wengen train station, or https://www.alpenblick-muerren.ch/ just down the way from the Murren train station.
Thanks!
Always impressed w Buster's extensive knowledge of euro. Wow
The man is a proper encyclopedia of skiing.Quote:
Originally Posted by byates1
I’m in! Just communicated with vendul and booked the month of March at Mt. Lodge. Epic Pass in hand which covers my lifts in the area for the month. Will shop plane tix for best rates soon. Stoked to get back to Switzerland… it’s been decades since Summer ski camps in Saas Fee.
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I'm considering this based on the history of glowing reports and photographic evidence of amazing terrain and big grins. A couple quick questions: How does this years cost compare to previous years? Will there be a couple days of guided off-piste requiring skinning in the mix?
Flight cost: https://www.kayak.com/ or https://www.google.com/travel/flightsQuote:
Originally Posted by sillybunt2
Train costs: https://www.sbb.ch/en/buying/pages/f...fahrplan.xhtml Plan your own itinerary.
Hotel costs: info@mt-lodge.com or pm vendul here. Mention the 2025 Grumble.
The SkiArena half price card is worth it: https://www.andermatt-sedrun-disenti...alf-price-pass This way your lift ticket operates through an app on your phone and updates your rfid lift pass (have to pick that up at a local kiosk).
Regarding touring, again, ask vendul and solicit here. Normally there is a day or two of touring, but we operate amoeba like with subgroups splitting off and doing their own thing. Some people go do the Tgoms tram and over to the Oberalp Pass or Andermatt, a fairly big day tour on their own. Some people group up with a vendul provided guide and skin an hour or two out of either Disentis or Andermatt. If the weather lines up and there's a guide around who knows it, the Oberalpstock has been done, which is a classic huDge descent with only a couple hours of easy skinning.
The day to day is not that organized, people feel out the situation and group up with like intended folks. Most of us just do our own thang. I have detached from doing any significant organizing, but I can supply links to answer questions.
I asked Vendul about lodge costs and he said it would be the same as last year:
Including a room, nice full continental breakfast, multi course dinner and a shuttle for a day trip to another ski area or event.
Per night PP:
$160 - Single occupancy
$100 - Double
$ 90 - Triple room
$ 80 - Family room-2adjoined rooms, 1dbl/2sngl beds
Good to see mags showing some interest. I'm looking forward to it, skiing and partying with friends. Been working a lot and squirreling away some nuts for this trip.
Shroom Splugenen:
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Swerve onsite above Disentis:
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lindenle as santa at Splugen:
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Moar lindenle:
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I’m hoping to be around the Klosters area if anyone is passing through before or after. I’m effectively between jobs, so it will depend a bit on what comes next.
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We hope to see you en route, bw_wp_hedonism, check your PMs and signal.
Also, just found out that the Schilhorn cable car above Murren is down until March 2025 at best. Without that lift, I'd skip the Jungfrau region.
Looking forward to it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
For those of you who are coming to the lodge and have not purchased a Half Price Abo nor have Epic Pass, can get slightly cheaper ski tickets directly at the Lodge.
Thank you for making it easier and more affordable
Andermatt makes #9 on this list
I only ski the top two. I only ski real destination resorts!
Where's Splugen on that list?
In a league of its ownQuote:
Originally Posted by Danno
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What a great day that was. Remember how there was a foot+ of fresh pow and we were all milling about at the bottom with the one other group of seriously unmotivated kid snowboarders?
Wait, what? the lifts are moving and the mountain's open?
Fuck me, c'mon. Alias Rice and Chuckles were ready to hop in the next ganjala witme. Getting firsties while the mags hoot from the ganjy.
So many deep sweet turns and funny shit happening. I memba Chuckles throwing a heli offa some lil booter and getting slapped on the landing. Took a second to shake that one off and a private ride up with Dad.
Can't wait to play witchu mags again.
Faceshot lap after lap at Splugen with ours the only tracks, joining up and splitting off the various subgrumbles. A day of many Santas.
It's the offpop spots that r00l, so many stashed away in the nooks and crannies of the Alps.
I wonder what vendul and his cadre of skispies across Graubunden with sort this coming year. San Bernardino? Wangs? Tschiertschen? Time will tell.
I think of the locals who thought they'd be skiing pow for days after the storm-on-Splugen day. Little did they know that the TRGZ were in the otherwise empty parking lot, prepping to slaughter the lamb.
We killed that place. I think lindenle and Swerve skied with some local up and comin wannabe pro types. I'm sure their eyes were opened...JH style. Those two can charge it.
Well put. It was lap after merciless lap of pow-slaying. Fresh lines all day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Djongo Unchained
A memory for the ages. Thanks, Vendul.
That was such a great day bell to bell! One of those days I’ll think about for years. FKNA.
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Ha, I forgot about these little life lessons...
He's a great kid and you're a fine Dad. Quite looking forward to turning with you two again.
I was just trying to remember the name of that long ganjala - Schiferbahn?
I think the trailer that Vendul towed over to Splugen had about $25-30k in ski gear in it.
Then there was the fat first day at Disentis, first lap we were debating stability and Mrs. Shroom goes shooting by...Welp, gotta go.
Watching mags slay powder, getting caught in terrain traps and being yelled at by old lifties. FKNA.
I couldn't win with that dude. Came back to the lift wrong everytime. rofl
Splugen! They were sponsored or made a film for some clothing company.
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P.s. That dude ate it big time when he missed the ice tranny from on to off piste. Full bell ringer.
I've been delinquent in not posting things from the Euro Grumble of last year's persuasion...
I didn't have many photos that really show the scale of andermatt, this one has Bruce and Brian making some sweet turns (gotta look close).... Next one, Bruce had a birthday, so veuve cliqueot naturally... Finally, a look at some food from Mt lodge kitchen/chef, fantastic and wonderful... Totally exceeded any expectations, so, so much fun, and at the end of it all, such a reasonable and affordable trip... If you are at all considering...go.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...daf4a1e717.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...81aefba8f8.jpg
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I think it's the Giraffe.
I was hoping you two would speak to what zone that is...I couldn't remember any of the names...but, I think its the Giraffe as well (I didnt attempt the Vorgipfel...)
This is the Vorgipfel:
https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...3&d=1714628527
It's on the West side of the Gemsstock, easy view from the Felsental side, the Giraffe is on the East side with a sketchy traverse access.
Yeah that sounds right. Bigger than the Vorgipfel.
Damn I love this mountain.
Word is getting out… next issue of Ski Journal…
https://www.theskijournal.com/issue_...eid=a39816124f
I guess I'm really looking forward to my next issue of ski journalQuote:
Originally Posted by singlecross
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Vorgipfel looks like a Boulevard.
Lotsa cool stuff from past years...
But for now, and just throwing it out here. Who's in for 2025?
It's gonna be great!