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The Arlberg 2008/2009

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First new snow of the season Very Happy







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Or the latest snow of this season ?
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Peter S wrote:
Or the latest snow of this season ?


You missed it. Yesterday morning it was covered !
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Ah one of the most famous and well used skiing quotes "you should of been here yesterday"
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New Multi Functional Sports Centre is being built for 2008/9 season on the site of the old Raiffeisen Tennis Center

Sorry its in German.

Neues multifunktionales Sportzentrum

Das Sportangebot in der Ferienregion St. Anton am Arlberg ist ab der Wintersaison 2008/2009 noch variantenreicher und wetterunabhängiger. Auf dem Gelände der Tennishalle entsteht ein multifunktionales Sportzentrum, in dem dank eines Spezialbelags zahlreiche Indoor-Aktivitäten, wie Tennis und weitere Ballsportarten, angesagt sind. Eine Kegelbahn mit vier Bahnen und eine Squash-Halle versprechen ebenfalls bewegte Stunden. Das große Kletterangebot ist das erklärte Aushängeschild des neuen Sportzentrums. Hier ist Bouldern genauso möglich wie Eisklettern, und dies sogar auch im Sommer. Die Indoor-Kletterhalle bietet zudem drei verschiedene Schwierigkeitsgrade und das Außenareal unterschiedliche Routen. Außerdem führt ein moderner Klettersteig auf das Dach des neuen Aktiv-Zentrums. Von dort wiederum hat man Gelegenheit, sich abzuseilen oder per Flying Fox ein paar Stockwerke tiefer zu schweben.

2008/9 Highlights

http://pisten.blog.de/2008/06/30/asechs-monate-winterwelt-mit-sportlichen-4385643
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Ah one of the most famous and well used skiing quotes "you should of been here yesterday"


Is that more famous and well used than "you should have been here yesterday" ?
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jonm,
Not from where I come from, shouldn't you be out catching sheep in your vecro wellies?

A quick rough translation of stantons paragraph .......

From the 2008/09 season there will be more sports activities in St Anton which aren't dependent on the weather. The Tennis hall has been replaced with a sports centre including indoor sports such as Tennis, bowling, squash and a climbing wall. The climbing hall has three different difficulty levels including a route up onto the roof of the new centre, from there it is possible to absail or via "Flying Fox" (what the foxes that?) down a couple of levels to below.
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shouldn't you be out catching sheep in your vecro wellies


No need, I keep them tied up waiting for me.
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Here is the latest developments from St Anton (In German) including Snowmaking improvements, Piste Improvements,Avalanche Safety & Future Planning notably the Rendl & Kappl plans will be submitted to Umweltverträglichkeitsprüfung (UVP) this Auturm.

Umweltverträglichkeitsprüfung (UVP) = environmental impact assessment


Beschneiung:

---Rendl: Ausbau Beschneiung an Riffelbahn 1 und Gampbergbahn, Wasserentnahme aus Speichersee Kartell (EWA St.Anton), 8 zusätzliche Kanonen

---Valfagehr - Schindlergrat Berg: Errichtung Speicherteich & Pumpenstation im Bereich Valfagehr Bergstation, Beschneiung der Pisten bis zur Bergstation Schindlergrat und den bisher nichtbeschneiten Teilen auf der Blauen 17 zur Alpe Rauz

---Reduzierung der theoretischen Zeit für die Erstbeschneiung auf 80 Stunden (optimale Schneibedingungen) und die Beschneiung von 95% der Pisten in St.Anton.


Pistenbau - Verbesserungen und Geländemodellierungen:

---Errichtung eines sehr flachen Skiweges vom Arlensattel zu den unteren Schweinströgen

---Galzig - Arlensattel: Anpassung an die Erfordernisse einer frequentierten Piste

---Einfahrt Osthang: Verbreiterung in dem Bereich der durch den Wegfall des Feldherrenhügelliftes entstanden ist


Lawinensicherung:

---Gaz.Ex-Erweiterung und Verbesserung in den Bereichen Pfaffenmähder (Skiroute 1Cool, Rendl, St.Christoph und Schwarze Wand


Planungen:

---Neubau Rendlbahn Sommer 2009 als 8 EUB, Talstation südlich des Kreisverkehrs beim Cafe Seiler

---Zusammenschluss Rendl - Kappl: Erstellung der Projektunterlagen zur UVP und Einreichung diesen Herbst
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Klösterle (http://www.sonnenkopf.com/00-winter/index.html) are building a new 70K M³ holding tank for artificial snow however they have dug up a marmot colony & there is a bit of reaction!

http://www.vol.at/news/vorarlberg/artikel/wirbel-um-murmel-am-arlberg/cn/news-20080812-06425525
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Official Website has an Artist Impression new sports centre
http://www.stantonamarlberg.com/winter/ViewPage.asp?Site=STANTON2-WINTER&PageID=206&lang=201
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Over on the German Forum.

Some pictures posted of the construction of the new Storage reservoirs on Rauz

http://www.alpinforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=991&p=448782#p448782
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St Anton Base

St Anton Valluga

Zurs Madlochbahn


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St Anton Film Festival (August 26-30)

http://filmfeststanton.twoday.net/

http://freiluftdoku.com/

Checkout the Freeride> Lawine movie
http://www.alpsolut.com/
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Cold & Snow Sunday

http://wetter.news.at/oesterreich/tirol/arlberg-galzig
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St Anton Freeriders

Stefan Häusl Bike Crash 22/08/08


http://youtube.com/v/es215jzJ2yg&feature=related

St Anton Filmfest

Angelika Hiesel


http://youtube.com/v/rcVZd7Rpofg

Stefan Häusl


http://youtube.com/v/2aPGeXOAfzw&feature=related

Ski Kultur Arlberg films

http://www.skikulturarlberg.com/projekt/medien.html

http://www.skikulturarlberg.com/
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"It'll all be gone in a week" Wink
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Ghost Dog, Was just going to post the same Laughing
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2 days.
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Selva this morning looked great, not much left now. And more to the point all the snow at the top of the Penken Bahn has gone. Damn you sun. Still, January is while yet. I would be watching the La Plagne cams, but no sign of any white stuff yet. Life, must get a life.
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Friday there be snow in town.

http://wetter.news.at/oesterreich/tirol/arlberg-galzig
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Looking nicely snowy on the webcams this morning, will it hang around? Looks to be turning milder after the weekend.
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stanton, it's chucking it down in lumps just now- yippee Laughing Even snow at village level in Saalbach too
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Looking nicely snowy on the webcams this morning, will it hang around? Looks to be turning milder after the weekend.



Although its warming up a bit from Sunday the night time temperatures will remain below freezing. I think above 2000Metres (Galzig) the snow will hang around.

Outlook for next week rising temperatures.

This is not unusual for this time of year but if the predicted warm period comes during November I do not expect a good season.


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if the predicted warm period comes during November I do not expect a good season.


What makes you say that? Surely regardless of what happens in November, a good early December storm or two will start the season off nicely???

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stanton wrote:
if the predicted warm period comes during November I do not expect a good season.


What makes you say that? Surely regardless of what happens in November, a good early December storm or two will start the season off nicely???

regards,

Greg


The ground needs to be frozen to hold the snow.

Normally at this time of the year the ground begins to freeze & stays cold throughout till April. When there is a sustained warm spell the ground thaws thus making a base less sustainable. Off -Piste becomes very dangerous because whole hillside just slides down.

The key to everything is temperature.
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Next Tuesday & Wednesday possible dump
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http://wetter.news.at/oesterreich/tirol/arlberg-galzig

looking very good for post Sunday! maybe this is no false dawn.... would be nice to see the slopes covered properly - it is getting on in time after all....
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Yes, temperatue goes down Monday night snow maybe starts Tuesday
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Looks like the snow that was headed for Austria has changed it's mind and is now heading for Switzerland. Evil or Very Mad
(according to snowforecast)


..... although Wetter.at is still expecting snow

http://www.wetter.at/wetter/sport-freizeit/berg-wetter/oesterreich/tirol/patscherkofel

http://www.wetter.at/wetter/oesterreich/tirol/sankt-anton-am-arlberg/
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Arlberg Snow allways come from the west i.e Switzerland Very Happy
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Arlberg Snow allways come from the west i.e Switzerland Very Happy


It might always come from the west but what matters is how much gets here as opposed to how much falls out over the swiss alps. According to snow-forecast the heavy snow will miss Austria and fall in Switzerland and Italy.
http://www.snow-forecast.com/maps/dynamic/alps

Anybody have other short term (3 day) weather forecasts for the alps? If so please post them here.

Doesn't look like the alberg will see significant snow until Thursday according to wetter.at

http://www.wetter.at/wetter/sport-freizeit/berg-wetter/oesterreich/tirol/arlberg-galzig/
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Try this from the American Airforce, It is usually spot on. 48 hr outlook.

https://afweather.afwa.af.mil/cgi-bin/model_looper.cgi?6,48,3,MEURSFCS3,.GIF,6,3,15
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Not much out of this storm, Switzerland faired much better.
Todays & tomorrows (Friday) snow will not hang around.
Next week temperature goes up with strong warm southern winds freezing levels rise to over 3000M.
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Mid next week the Fohn winds from the South will ease off. Change of Wind direction & cooler temps. No decent dumps of snow forecast for next 10 days.
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I'd say that the opening day 28/11 is starting to look a bit dodgy??
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I'd say that the opening day 28/11 is starting to look a bit dodgy??


Not much is open anyway on Opening day, didnt you know ?
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stanton - disagree.....i was in st anton last year for the opening weekend (first one in dec) and snow was awesome and all the lifts were open! However thats no guarantee it will be the same this year....
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stanton - disagree.....i was in st anton last year for the opening weekend (first one in dec) and snow was awesome and all the lifts were open! However thats no guarantee it will be the same this year....


Rendl doesnt open until 2nd week December, I know it was not open because I hiked up on the 14th December & got some incredible Powder runs before the official opening Very Happy

2 seasons ago they delayed the whole resort opening by 1 week because they could not make snow in the warm temperatures.

IT only takes 3 days (24*7) to cover the entire piste network with artificial snow so if the temperature is down there should not be a problem.
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