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Ok fine, I'll start the new one!
I had to work when Stubai re-opened yesterday (Friday 20th), but went up today for my first runs of the season. There are only a couple of lifts and slopes open, and only above the top station of the Eisgratbahn (1900m) - literally zero snow below that point. Still, the snow was suprisingly good, no slush, more wintery conditions than I expected. Pistes were firm but grippy and ideal for carving, off the groomed we found some really nice cream-cheese style windbuff - as ever hiking for a few minutes yielded plenty of untracked snow. Really great day, and was SO good to be back on skis!
Few pictures as we were mainly filming for a slightly ambitious project (which will likely turn out crap!), but to give you an idea of conditions, here's a screenshot of my mate Andy slashing out a nice turn after a 10 minute hike:
Crappy quality on my comp for some reason, maybe memory card problems?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Heavy snow right down to my flat (750ish metres asl) atm!!!
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Playing out at the weekend then?! 
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Still going to Japan?
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Great pics. I had to check the date to make sure it was not an old thread 
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Nice. Can't wait till Jan.
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clarky999, looking forward to photos later mate if you're out hiking to get into the pow today?!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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lynseyf, wow......Auras ain't skinny, my wife loves hers 
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Off to Solden on Monday 
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Poster: A snowHead
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clarky999, it didn't seem bad to me at all. I don't know Stubai well at all, think this is just the 5th day I skied here but there didn't seem that many people and everyone seemed to be going the same routes so I guess if you know the area well you should be able to find some fresh. There were only 6 lifts open so if they open more lifts should imagine there will be a lot more untracked available.
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lynseyf, sweet, thanks! You gonna be about?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Yeah we're gonna stay till monday
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Looks nice clarky999, It didn't seem too busy to me today but the snow wasn't as good, it had really settled so was heavier and pretty much everything easy I could see was skied, lovely sunshine though and still nice snow so a good start to the season for me.
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Awesome.
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Great photos, keep them coming you lucky *&£$*$"£%^
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Light snowfall on the mountains (above around 1900m I think) the last two nights. Warm and sunny during the day though,t he snow is melting off pretty quickly (other than the glaciers). Which is a good thing, we don't want snow to stick around until late November really, could make for a dodgy persistant layer at the bottom of the snowpack all season long otherwise.
My new skis just arrived from SportPursuit too, 193 4FRNT EHPs. 40m turn radius, really mellow rocker and pretty damn stiff... I'm a little bit scared  Should be ace for going fast though, looking forward to getting them out on the glacier next week!
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clarky999, how'd you find the Down7's Matt, hope not too flappy? I'm looking forward to mine next season
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Snow nowhere near as nice today; seriously wind-scoured (I shat myself on the gondola up due to the swinging), sometimes down to the ice below. In the end I found where the snow was getting deposited again, scoring some really nice powdery bumps. Lots of snow forecast this week, possibly 40-70cms...(!!!!)
Some really incredible skiing on show today by the various ski clubs, especially the comp mogul training. Blew my mind, I wish I could ski like that.
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Managed to squeeze a couple of hours skiing in this morning before work, by getting up at silly o'clock (first lift is 7:30am!!). Rewarded with 20-30cms of powder, which didn't get tracked anywhere near as quickly as I expected. Forecast was to stop snowing in the afternoon; visibility was just improving enough to open the throttle a bit when I left at around 10:30 but no idea what happened later. No photos as we didn't have time to waste!
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Lazy morning.......stuff can't wait?! Looks awesome.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Heavy rain here today (like Scotland, but falling straight down). Been going most of the night, the web cams look fairly appalling...
First lifts at Stubai tomorrow I think!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Sölden opened up the Glacier Express 8-seater bubble link today as well as the 4-seater chairlift serving it and the Schwarzkogl mountain restaurant:
AKTUELLE INFO! Heute gehen folgende Anlagen in Betrieb:
8 EUB Gletscherexpress
4 SK Einzeiger
Piste 24
Restaurant Schwarzkogl
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Soelden looked like it had plenty of snow, looking over from Stubai the other day.
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Great day at Stubai today, with Horizon, Irbis(?) and my gf. Things are starting to fill in after all the snowfall, so we scored a couple of nice little powdery couloirs that only just came into condition. Slight error of judgement on my part resulted in a 20m or so hike to clear a rocky part on out last run down to the middle station, but overall plenty of powder and some nice terrain that I hadn't skied in a while. Cold, windy and really variable visibility (and pretty variable snow in places), but all part of the fun. Snowing as we left, so tomorrow should be good too!
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Really nice afternoon skiing at the Obergurgl opening day. Decent visibility (no battery in camera  ), snow varied from lovely wind-blown powder to horrific wind-scoured crust depending on slope. Possible to ski all the way down, but not on (open) piste. Most of the offpiste still needs to fill in a bit, but it's snwoing now. Clouds descended and started snowing just as we got to the car, by the time we'd driven down the valley it was 1ºC and snowing in Oetz (800m), and it's snowing here too in Hungerburg (above Innsbruck) at 700m - enough to cover the grass in the garden already.
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I had an enjoyable, though strenuous, weekend on the Stubai glaciers ("out of area" for me usually), on a two-day course. The weather was superb, blue cloudless skies most of the time (a little more cloud midday on Sunday but even that cleared away again). Here's the view from the Gamsgarten area...
On Saturday the snow was perfect. With it having snowed on Friday even the pistes were softish, though that did tend towards making them more bumpy than usual. On Sunday the pistes had hardened (and there were rather fewer bumps) but they were still in great condition. Off piste plenty of rocks were still showing through.
The area is a good deal more extensive than the Kitzsteinhorn at Kaprun where I had been earlier in the week, at least at this time of year. Probably more interesting too but I wasn't the only one to have discovered that. Here is the line for the T-bar up to the Daunscharte...
However, the queues did give me time to catch my breath . And by about two in the afternoon the crowds were thinning out and there weren't queues worth mentioning any more. This is the Wildspitz chairlift, looking over towards the Ötztal...
As it was, some had methods of shortening the queues - two's company, three's ... snowboarders (on the Gaisskarferner T-bar)...
All in all, a fine weekend - and late in the day I found that the Stubai lift company had even prepared a piste on the Daunferner especially for me...
And very enjoyable it was too.
The journey home was slow to start with, with nose-to-tail traffic edging along from Fulpmes to the autobahn. I suppose this was mostly skiers, though I did wonder if it wasn't rather tourists out to admire the Europabrücke, celebrating its opening 50 years ago to the day
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FAQ
On the plus side that's two hours of overtime to add the huge amount I racked up over the summer, I've got enough that for the foreseeable future I'm getting paid for 30 hours a week while only working 20! Nice surprise when my manager told me 
