Keep doing whatever you are doing....Quote:
Originally Posted by powslut
5 days....
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Keep doing whatever you are doing....Quote:
Originally Posted by powslut
5 days....
did another "no fresh" tour from lech to warth and back today. skied from rufikopf, over wurstlkopf then down to the highway and caught a cab to warth. great turns. tr coming soon.
Funny, I have been sitting here all morning thinking that that would be a good tour when I get there if there is no new snow. Can't wait for the report.Quote:
Originally Posted by powslut
it shouldn't be a problem...its looking good for some snow on wednesday. I'll post some pics a do the TR after work tonight.
Rappenspitze brings up some nice memories for sure.
Was at Warth the weekend before - you still could get lots of fresh tracks when skiing off Juppenspitze/Fernerjoch directly into Auenfeld.
looks like things are starting to turn around, and not a moment too soon. just got back from 4 days based out of briancon...
thursday and friday skied sre chev , only good snow that i found was in les bains. everything about treeline was very wind scoured, trees in les bains just below treeline were full with wind deposited snow that no one really wanted (except me ;) ).
saturday in la grave. actually had the best snow of all the areas i skied. only stayed on vallon side cause reports from elsewhere were iffy and my friend and i weren't heading out on that glacier alone. snow was generally in great condition all things considered with deeper, wind-deposited snow in the trees below. bring rock skis tho.
sunday in puy st. vincent basically sucked. they've got some nice trees (but la grave's were better), other than that, not much else to report there.
gf forgot the camera, so no pics.
i've just spent 4 days in la grave and a few in morzine.
definitely agree about la grave, all the snow's blown off the top of the mountain, but some good stuff lower down if you don't mind hitting alot of rocks.
we hiked up to the top of the drag lifts and skied over in les 2 alpes, for a bit of an early season workout, the runs down to st christophe looked pretty good, but who knows what it's like further down.
i'm living in les hieres for (most of) this season, that's s. facing and the snow was starting to get melted on that side when we left.
la grave definitely needs a few big dumps as soon as possible.
morzine was good. nice snow, but tracked out. met up with mulletizer and marina for a day. was really good to meet you both if you're reading this!
i was almost a goner too on friday, just after saying bye to mulletizer... me and my friends were skiing back to morzine on steep icy pistes, we were going pretty quick, basically not turning, and one of my fritshci's prereleased. i managed to make a turn on one ski then fell and flew headfirst, on my back, off the edge of the piste, down a drop and into the trees. i really thought i was going to get badly fucked, and hit a log pretty hard, but thankfully had helmet and body armour on. that's the 2nd close shave i've had from going to fast on ice with fritschis!
no real snow coming.
the slight dusting above 500-1000m and later only above 1500m won't be more than 20-30cm i guess.
pretty likely another high will follow. OR we might get the coldest weather since the 80s as the 6am main model run would insist.(still no snow though) but that is only one model run out of 15.
so since my girlfriend will be able to go to the alps again on jan 30 i predict significant snowfall for 29th, 30th or the 31st at latest. ( i made this forecast as a joke when we skied the last time on jan 4th, but i might come actually true..... :( )
just got back from hospital - 4 more weeks of pins and cast. :cussing:
and to add insult to injury, it just started snowing...
:frown: :frown: :frown:
Leysin 18h30 15 Jan 2006
It is snowing now.
Started at 3000m at around 13h30.
It turned us back from our scheduled tour to the top of Les Diablerets.
Get the stoke on, and ignore Plague.:FIREdevil
*prophet*
"those who ignore me will be the ones in vain"....... ;)
well actually it doesn't look to good in the evening model runs.. :(
im considering a move to japan, the PNW, Jackson Hole or even greece....
greece of all places.....goddammit !
A few cm on the ground out my window, we're hoping more up the mountain. Will let you know after tomorrow! Snow dances! Snow dances!
10cm on the ground in Zürich and snowing lightly.
Tuesday morning: still snowing.
Not much fell overnight, but the plow did pass.
Probably 30cm on hill at moment. And still snowing!
definately not lake-effect, there has been real action on the radar. the models are correct so far, its swinging north towards arlberg, with the exception of the alp vaudiouse which seems to be doing its localized thing.
SP, i'm starting to think your way (except for greece). there are much better places to live for snow. why deal with this kind of frustration season after season? fuck, out west they get as much snow in a multi-day dump as we do in an entire season. it just aint right. :mad:
well at least some models make it unbearably cold after the weekend. can you say minus 25 ......... :eek:
of course still no snow. we'll see. i hope my girfriend fixes the weather and it dumps at the end of january. :D
and i mentioned greece because the cold air over the mediteranean would have caused a massive dump there.(according to the model run )
engelberg has gotten 10cm so far(at 2100m)... :(
western valais about 20cm. (i don't knwo exactly where the "donin du jour" is)
edit: but the main precip should arrive this evening. id say there are at least another 30 cm in it so enjoy this dump for there won't be more during the next few days.
The telemetry data from the Galzig (St Anton) weather station shows about 20cm of fresh so far.
still sunny in innsbruck, but first attempt at cloud cover in ages. seems to be drifting east so hopefully some of that^ will eventually get here.
the guys in eastern( ;) ) austria predict up to 50cm+... hmmm im tempted. let's what the main precip does tomorrow.
e-mail this morning from friend in St. Anton said that it is puking.....:biggrin: :biggrin:
If it ends up that way I should seriously rethink having my parents come from Athens to visit me and instead I should head down there to visit them.Quote:
Originally Posted by subtle plague
Hello there pow... just got back from La Flegere, around a foot deep of HQ light fresh pow. Low viz, still snowing, snow in the forecast again tomorrow. Great day of tree skiing and can't wait for more tomorrow! Suddenly we have good conditions.
If you want to ski, go to North America. The skiing is hands down, 10 times better in every way, mostly due to the fact it snows between 3-5 times more than here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ripzalot
If you want jaw dropping vistas, super-steep ridiculous spires of granite, incredible glaciar scenery, and the best place to do alpine climbing and ski mountaineering in the world, come to the Alps. I've spent a lot of time out West in the US and Canada and really there's no comparison. That's why I'm here and not there. (Not to mention the culture is slightly different, making day-to-day living more interesting)
innsbruck.. no sight of any new snow yet :( tomorrow will bring some but probably not too much.
Vertical drop anyone?Quote:
Originally Posted by bbirtle
That, I simply don't believe. Show me the stats. I would be surprised if even the Wasatch gets anything close to 3x as much as the most snowy resort in the Alps (which one is it, btw?).Quote:
Originally Posted by bbirtle
Also, Brian, it's that kind of preposterous talk that leads to all those anti-American feelings in Europe. ("It's 10x better there in every way.") You sound like someone who needs to feel a bit of good ol' Eastern Alps powder love.
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Originally Posted by bbirtle
That's a fallacy. Perhaps in the coast ranges of BC, CA, OR and WA it snows more but in terms of interior snowpack I believe the snowfalls in Europe are comparable if not higher. Especially in the east.