Poster: A snowHead
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Up at the ski show
Night ski is open and looks ace ... spending time with grandparents ... so no skis
Will post some pics later
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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omg we're up to 3 pages and it's only Crimbo!
SFL has officially been 'Discovered'!
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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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Looks like more pistes due to open next day or two, bashers working away all day today in Fiss, weather superb today. How's the show @kingwhite ? Hoped to get over tonight but the dessert buffet at the Schlosshotel got the better of us😋
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summerseat wrote: |
... the dessert buffet at the Schlosshotel got the better of us😋 |
I know that feeling It's the cheeses that do for me... Nice to see another Schloss-er on here. May I ask if it's your first time there or whether you're a regular?
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First time skiing the area and also in this hotel, very impressed. The hotel is a bit special!
Came in summer and stayed in Serfaus at the hotel lowen , great for the kids. Liked the look of the place and ski area so decided to give it a go, settled on Fiss and the schlosshotel for ease of getting on the slopes
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@summerseat, Love that lift up from the boot room straight onto the slopes, right?
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@summerseat,
Fantastic - great weather today.
Gonna head for masner tomorrow.
Is there a lively apres bar in serfaus on the slopes? Taxi driver mentioned bar apache????
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@red 27, Ha, I think I'm particularly to blame for that. I've probably posted more than necessary, partly to keep the thread near the top to attract as much attention as possible...
Great to hear all this positive news, and enjoying the photos. Also good to see someone on the Arlberg thread saying that slopes ought to be emptier than usual due to conditions, as Germans and Dutch will be more flexible and at least a portion will stay away and wait for the proper snow. And since the British TOs haven't really found SFL yet, I guess the Germans and Dutch make up most of the skiers there.
Hearing how positive everyone is, and how great the weather is, and how there are more slopes still to come, maybe we'd be better off without these snowless incoming clouds - or perhaps we'll get lucky...
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@red 27, the lift is a great touch, to be honest very impressed with the hotel, it really is something else. The Austrians seem to do it so much better. I would quite happily stop in some of the toilets for a week😀
@kingwhite, sorry not sure of the apres scene in Serfaus, only been in summer. We're over in Fiss, there's a good bar here right at the bottom of the slopes, gets a bit out of hand between 4 and 6 ( in a good way), people on the bar dancing etc etc. All good fun.
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Think i've found bar patschi near sunliner lift
Up at masner .... absolutely perfect!
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@summerseat, @kingwhite, Can either of you give any insight into the quality of the pistes, particularly over at Masner, and also how they're holding up with the warmth.
I'm just trying to cross reference a report from the German forum (from someone who is typically pretty negative), describing the Masner area as poor due to not enough snow and stones on the pistes. Does this ring true?
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@WellingtonBoot, spent most of the day up at Masner today, outstanding conditions! I think @kingwhite was there as well so I'm sure he will agree. Even managed some off piste. Not sure why the negativity as today was a perfect a ski day you could wish for.
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Yeah for sure - i do two weeks a year for the last ten .... that was as nice a days skiing as I've had!!!
Looked like they had the black off masner nearly ready to too.
Perfect piste condition!
@summerseat,
You got a couple of nippers with ya? First English voice I've heard in masnerhutte today ... wasn't you was it??
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You know it makes sense.
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@kingwhite, could well have been. I was with my 2 boys, 10 and 11, lunch stop around 1ish.
Been up to the night show tonight at the moseralm, great fun, first showing and a few teething problems but enjoyed by all. Not many resorts put this much effort in for the visitors so really impressed. We normally go to Hinterglemm at Easter but seriously considering returning here.
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@summerseat, you must do the tobogan night on the mosersalm with the boys . it is great fun
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Poster: A snowHead
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Having a beer at schongampbahn ... slopes at fiss in great condition but more green around.
Slopes off zwolfer in good condition - colder over here -1 at the mo
Thought I saw a rock in fiss but turned out to be firework shell from last nights show.
Fun park and race run open off run 21!!!
@summerseat,
Green jacket? I should have said hello
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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We arrived in Fiss today, and it seems lovely. Beautiful spot. Can't say too much about the skiing, but the slopes coming down at the end of the day looked in good nick, noone seemed in trouble and it wasn't too crowded when I was watching.
Looking at the weather charts, both the last two GFS runs were pretty good and seemed set to deliver 5-10cm here, but obviously snow-forecast has access to a higher resolution map because they're projecting 2cm here and 14cm in Lech nearby. 10cm forecast for Ischgl too, which is difficult to take, given that it is further South and just as 'shielded' from the North!
Super frustrating, but hopefully those charts are oversimplifying and drawing sharper cut off lines than are realistic. Reason to be hopeful at any rate...
Can't wait to get on skis in any case, and I'm hearing the skiing is good.
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Welcome welly boots
Enjoy yersen - its class!!!
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@kingwhite, sounds like me, big red cheeks cos I'm knackered trying to keep up with the kids😳
Looks like we share a common interest in Leeds as well .
@WellingtonBoot, relax, enjoy the sun, the pistes are fine so all good. Might be a bit busier from Sunday so get a good day in tomorrow 👍
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@summerseat,
Ha, ace! All Leeds aren't we
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Much busier today ... we we're very lucky to have a private ski resort for three days!!!!
Windy and bit scraped by the time we bailed ...
Will live tweet from mass in fiss at 10
Happy crimbo choppers!!!!
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@kingwhite, Funny you say that. Probably also doing the Fiss Mass. Probably. Everybody's a bit drunk...
Funny also that you describe today as windy and scraped. This morning (we got up early) we seemed to have the pistes to ourselves and, like you've been reporting, the pistes were in fantastic condition. Afternoon there were probably two runs that had brief, scraped stretches, and a few that had some hard but not troublesome patches, but we still had mostly great skiing.
Guess it says everything about how good things have been and how impressive the preparation has been that today was a downgrade for you...
Anyway, been a great day and love the place. Hexenalm also super. Happy Christmas!
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We're all done here ...
Cracking resort given the lack of natural stuff
Skied over zwolfer side today - slightly icy but nothing major. Nice lunch stop at schongampalm on red 28
Black 29 was probably best run as empty
Good fun down red 7 playing dodge the ski school
Will have to come back!!!
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I agree with above. Lots open but it's all a bit icy at present. Little bits of off-post up Manser are good and the snow blowers were on last night topping up. It can be a bit of a lottery on the piste though. Decent snow to sheet ice within a short space. Lovely (and expensive) resort though.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Piste conditions today were fantastic. Snow blowers on full blast again tonight. Great evening show on Serfaus last night too. Race chargers are the way to go in these conditions @Guernseyfreerider!
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Another great day yesterday. Did Masner first thing whilst it was quiet, the run from the top of Alpkopfbahn to village was pretty decent all day. Kids went back for private lessons again and the teachers totally delivered, so impressed. I also had a lesson at same time with one of the senior coaches Herbert who's been skiing in Serfaus for 50 years! Proper two hour masterclass, I think you can a bit lazy on freeride skis so it was nice to fine tune carving and work on some other things - time well spent and a top man.
New this year by the Komperdell station is 'Play Serfaus' featuring climbing walls for kids, soft play area & laser obstacle course, a great way to spend a couple of hours if you haven't exhausted them skiing.
The area has invested 200 million Euros in in infrastructure in the last ten years - that's one of the reasons its major league
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You know it makes sense.
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A couple of laps of run 92 first thing in the morning is a superb way to start the day.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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