Snow for the Euros.

**bbirtle** · 12-13-2005, 11:30 AM

Originally Posted by edg

Hehe, you win (though I don't know if winning is good or bad in this competition

)

edg

The big white one was a bit of a run in with some boulders I thought were lumps of snow. I could actually SMELL burning plastic as I walked back up to get my destroyed ski!

As for the ones on the edges, word to the wise - avoid Las Lenas on a dry year...

**edg** · 12-13-2005, 12:06 PM

Originally Posted by bbirtle

The big white one was a bit of a run in with some boulders I thought were lumps of snow. I could actually SMELL burning plastic as I walked back up to get my destroyed ski!

As for the ones on the edges, word to the wise - avoid Las Lenas on a dry year...

Ah, burning plastic. The one and only great thing about dry slope skiing

edg

**edg** · 12-13-2005, 12:08 PM

Originally Posted by Lostinthetrees

CORE!

Ur Epicenter & amount...

...put down the crack pipe, kid.

Hehe, OK, OK, I'll revise.

In reality, I reckon it's gonna be pushed out over to Switzerland, dump on the Northern Alps (but not make it over onto the Italian side in any meaningful way) with a storm total of over a meter.

edg

**Franz Klammer** · 12-13-2005, 12:58 PM

Lech/St. Anton will be the epicenter. I will be arriving on the 20th to take full advantage of it.

**bbirtle** · 12-13-2005, 03:25 PM

Originally Posted by edg

Ah, burning plastic. The one and only great thing about dry slope skiing

edg

Appearently they have entire competitions on dry slopes up in England. The guy that told me about this has done slalam comps of dry slopes - says people develop techniques that you could never do on real snow and some of the competetors hardly ever ski on actual snow. "WHY?!?!" Is my only response. "Because it just never really snows in England, and trips to the alps are expensive." Gotta hand it to the Brits for their perseverence!

**powslut** · 12-14-2005, 03:53 AM

Originally Posted by Franz Klammer

Lech/St. Anton will be the epicenter. I will be arriving on the 20th to take full advantage of it.

how long you coming for? we'll have to hook up for a ski. come by the funky chicken for a drink or some dinner...i work in service there.

**p@wder** · 12-14-2005, 04:15 AM

Originally Posted by bbirtle

Appearently they have entire competitions on dry slopes up in England. The guy that told me about this has done slalam comps of dry slopes - says people develop techniques that you could never do on real snow and some of the competetors hardly ever ski on actual snow. "WHY?!?!" Is my only response. "Because it just never really snows in England, and trips to the alps are expensive." Gotta hand it to the Brits for their perseverence!

Footage of the scottish unis dryslope championships
http://www.negativegravity.co.uk/video/busc/

However- in scotland we prefer this:

some crappy vids: http://www.nevisrange.co.uk/winter/fun/videos.asp

**edg** · 12-14-2005, 12:58 PM

Hrmph. Petering out to nothing as all snow-forecast predictions do

edg

**subtle plague** · 12-14-2005, 01:59 PM

do not worry oun padawan.the force in thisstorm is strong

12 hour and 60hour pics from this evening's model run.
noticethe change

edit: me is moron. me pics not worky wanty.

**subtle plague** · 12-14-2005, 02:05 PM

aah me smart now.

edit: ...i must say i liike those dark colours. keep em coming i wanna see black

notice that nice colour change from 120cm+ in the kripensteinarea near salzburg to 200cm+

the arlberg chnage from 70cm+ to 150cm ain't too bad either

**Franz Klammer** · 12-14-2005, 02:14 PM

This does indeed look encouraging. Obertauern and Krippenstein are getting nuked.

Hoping for the best for my first week in Solden (21-26) and the second week in L2A (27-02).

Subtle, are you free for some turns around January 5/6 at the Krippenstein?

Edg, when and where are you in France?

**subtle plague** · 12-14-2005, 02:19 PM

franz: maybe. my girfriends phd attendance is paused to the 9th (those nice bavarian universities do have looong holidays

). and we want to chase some pow after christmas, but I do not know yet where we'll end up. and if we'll stay that long.
edit:goddammit. my spelling and typing gets worse by the minute.

**edg** · 12-14-2005, 02:33 PM

Me just realised what those two (well, one in reality) scales are, hehe. (and I like 'em). 150+ for Les Arcs area? I must be dreaming...

Franz : 23rd->30th, Les Arcs.

edg

**Meathelmet** · 12-14-2005, 02:40 PM

Ok.

So in Austria the places to be are?:

-Lech
-St.Antton
-Groscklockner area?
-Kitzbuhl?
-Flachau
-Obertauern

Slovenia:

-Kanin

Swizerland:

-Saas Fee
-Zermatt
-Grinewald
-Leysin
-Glacier 3000
-Gstad

Italy:

None

France:

Well anything from cham to huez?

Is france in as good shape as it looks like?
Roo´s and his teams pictures looked,well,um, good? But?

Touching down in geneva exactly within 168 hours, and going roadtripping for two/three weeks around the alps.
Cant decide whether to go to francia where i have rompped around in the last 5 seasons or go east to check out new territories.Damn this white mans burden...
Finding a lodgin between christmas and Newyears eve is just more difficult in west than in east.

Damn theese choices.

**subtle plague** · 12-14-2005, 02:40 PM

be careful. this is not new snow. so only the subtracted values count for new.
and most will be blocked by cham due tothe northern airflow.
france in genera will not be pounded so severely by this one.

edit for meat: North side for pow! not italy, sw france, or slovenia.

so st. anton /kripp in austria and cham in france.
im not sure about engelberg and the rest of suisse, because of the lacking base. but they get some as well.

anton wil be inthe epicenter, but the krip will get poundedas well. as should eastern switz.

**Hayduke** · 12-14-2005, 04:48 PM

Could be heading to Avoriaz area with Horizon this w/e I reckon. Anyone got any info on the place?
Thx

**bbirtle** · 12-14-2005, 04:56 PM

Snow-forecast.com is claiming 9-14cm on Friday depending on the altitude... anybody got a 6 day version they can screen cap (or PM me their unpw I promise I won't give it out to anyway else)? Weather.com 10-day seems to confirm something biggish might be on our way.

Met Idris today for the first time up at Les GM... there's a decent base, I think if we just can get some more pow on top it should be rad. Flegere opening this weekend too...

Come on, powder dance time......

**bbirtle** · 12-14-2005, 05:01 PM

Meathelmet if you want some Zermatt beta let me know (I just finished spending an entire year there). Later in the winter, when it snows more and the glaciars and rocky faces become doable, there's some incredible stuff and you can always get the powder all yourself.

**Hayduke** · 12-14-2005, 05:10 PM

I reckon we'll wait until Friday to make a decision but maybe we'll head for Cham. Brian, are you up for some turns if we end in your neck of the woods?

**bbirtle** · 12-14-2005, 06:41 PM

Definitely up for a beer, can definitely give you all the beta, and to ski as well, although work is a little crazy these days and may make it impossible. I'll PM you my contact info...

PS - I'm headed to the USA for Christmas on the 23rd, back in Cham' on the 30th.

**edg** · 12-15-2005, 01:00 AM

Originally Posted by bbirtle

Snow-forecast.com is claiming 9-14cm on Friday depending on the altitude... anybody got a 6 day version they can screen cap (or PM me their unpw I promise I won't give it out to anyway else)? Weather.com 10-day seems to confirm something biggish might be on our way.

For Cham, you only need the 3-day (alas

)

edg

**Lostinthetrees** · 12-15-2005, 01:58 AM

Sorry France and Western CH, but that promising 6-day 4kast posted on Monday has been reduced to this:

New 6-day 4kast continues to concentrate major snow fall in Western Austria.
A dusting of green and orange amounts is 4kast for everywhere else.

PDS Report: My reco for PDS is Avoriaz, but expect crowds this weekend as Noel vacation kicks-off.

- I was up at Champoussin (the station between Morgins and Champery, VALAIS) yesterday. No skiing, all work. Anyway...

The snow quality is excellent!!! Deep packed pow. Cold temps remain keeping the pistes in great shape. No thawing/freezing cycles means no ice on pistes. Off-piste is doable, but why? Only 10 - 15cm of fresh dust on crust and rocks.

Only teleskis working. Only blue pistes open. No chair lifts. No liason w. Champery. Nothing open that is high and red/black. I saw no activity to open more terrain.

- Avoriaz is 80% open. 1 liason between Avoiraz and Champery open.

- Champery/Les Croset seems to have ~ 60% open. Again, anything high and red/black does not appear open at this time.

That expected dump this weekend would have been enough to open everything, but...

Reality: We need 40 - 50cm to get things moving in PDS on the CH side.