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northantsred,
I have done Stubai and Shlick,the latter being a superb little, very scenic ski area at the back of Neustift.
Stubai is great but a bit of a drive up to the very busy car park.
Do not miss the cheesy Austropop apres in the Mutterberg !!!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Sorry I meant Fulpmes not Neustift for Shlick !
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Saw lots of snow and ice in Innsbruck last Friday - but on the stage 
There was an excellent production in the Landestheater of Alfredo Catalani's opera, La Wally (perhaps best known through the "hit" aria 'Ebben? ... Ne andrò lontana' which appeared in the film "Diva"). The opera, based on a story by Wilhelmine von Hillern "Die Geyer-Wally" about a woman living in the mountains, ends with the heroine dieing in an avalanche (maybe on the Rettenbachferner?, for the opera is set around Sölden in the Ötztal, although the original woman on which the character of Wally was based, Anna Stainer-Knittel, actually lived further west in the Lechtal). Photos here.
I enjoyed the evening and found there was plenty of action on the stage. If any other opera-loving skiers are in the area, I would recommend seeing the production. There are further performances on 15.11 and 21.11 and next year on 27.01 and 3.02.
Are there any other operas set in a skiing environment?
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| espri wrote: |
Are there any other operas set in a skiing environment? |
Apparently Winfrey has a chalet in Telluride... 
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Bucketing down here, looks like it' dumping at the Stubaier. Should probably get out of bed and go check it out really...
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Friend told me it was raining even pretty high up, so gave it a miss.
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clarky999, it is a full blown Föhn storm that's why! The closer I got to the mountains today, the warmer and wetter it was! 
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| espri wrote: |
| Are there any other operas set in a skiing environment? |
I don't know about Operas, but there is a good theatre play called On The Piste by John Godber which I saw in the 1990s at Derby Playhouse.
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Alastair Pink, I saw that too in Harrogate at the same time, really good
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Interesting. Thanks for the link.
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| Samerberg Sue wrote: |
| clarky999, it is a full blown Föhn storm that's why! The closer I got to the mountains today, the warmer and wetter it was! |
Strange. I skied today in Kitzbühel (will report later when I have time). Having heard forecasts of rain and 130 km/hr gusts I started out with trepidation. But there was virtually no rain and hardly any wind, although changeable weather (mist one minute, sun the next). And only minimal Föhn effects.
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| Samerberg Sue wrote: |
| clarky999, it is a full blown Föhn storm that's why! The closer I got to the mountains today, the warmer and wetter it was! |
Yeah, was hoping there'd be snow above 2000m, but Jerome said it was raining up to at least Gamsgarten!
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You know it makes sense.
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clarky999, Looking at the Ischgl webcams you can see it was snowing there this morning certainly above 2200m and lower before clearing up and briefly sunshine breaking through around 1400. Further east sounds like it missed Kitzbuhel, but was raining heavily to the south in Bad Gastein. Until latest dray it looked like the eastern Alps would be cooler, but this shifted suddenly. Shows how unpredictable theorems can be even across relatively small distances.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| nozawaonsen wrote: |
| was raining heavily to the south in Bad Gastein. |
It does look like Gastein drew the short straw today - the rain was pretty bad. Looking at the webcams only slightly further north around Hochkonig, the weather looked nowhere near as bad and appeared pretty clear.
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Kersh, I'd say it came and went all day to be honest. We had everything thrown at us today except cold and snow! Still too warm here. 
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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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Dark and low clouds have blown in today, and looks like the Stubaier's getting some light snowfall atm.
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Just heard the avalanche cannons at Nordkette, which is weird as there's nowhere near enough snow there to merit them (maybe on the back north-facing side, but they don't control that). Wouldn't have thought they'd 'dry test' them? Anyone ever come across bombing to stabilise scree slopes?
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| clarky999 wrote: |
| Just heard the avalanche cannons at Nordkette |
I heard what sounded like avalanche blasting around here a little while back, near Hochfilzen (large calibre Biathlon?). However, I suspect it was probably just building work. Tragically, an explosives expert was killed in Oberperfuss near Innsbruck yesterday when blasting went wrong at a building site - see report here (in German).
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espri, thanks, that makes a lot more sense!
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Has anyone got an update for Solden? Haven't seen much since the World Cup. Has skiing moved from just off the glacier yet?
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Good amount of snow on the peaks today, was snowing (very lightly) all the way down to the city at times too.
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Anyone been to Stubai today or going tomorrow? Just booked a youth hostel in Innsbruck so will be heading there on Sunday, lets hope there is lots of powder 
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Nope, had work yesterday and today, and tomorrow too. Will be going somewhere on Sunday, not sure where though, Stubai, Ischgl, or skin up somewhere that isn't open yet and so should still have lots of freshies (on what would normally be pistes so should be shark-free) - Arlberg or Axamer Lizum maybe.
A colleague who's parents live in Stubaital said they've had a lot of snow, and is expecting to score pow on Sunday on the glacier. I'll give you a shout if I decide to go to the glacier.
Last edited by And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports. on Fri 30-11-12 22:30; edited 1 time in total
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How long will you be about for? I also have Mon, Tue and Wed off, and will likely be at the glacier on at least one of those days.
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You know it makes sense.
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Decided to skin up Westendorf today, to see how much snow was about. I got up too late, so only made it too the middle station before it got dark (accidentally went the long way up too - and touring fuelled purely by a single espresso probably isn't the ebst way to go about things...). Snow higher up looked great, may have to come back for it. Lower down was a mix of natural and machine-made, mixed with grass - mostly pretty fun to ski though. Managed to ski all the way to the bottom without damaging my skis too much, bonus. Some pics:
Patchy at the bottom, at just under 800m
Car park will be rammed in a few weeks
Lots of snow higher up
More in Westendorf than over on Brixen, anyway. Looked to be even more on the Hohe Salve, probably should ahve gone up there, in hindsight
Trying to get arty - one for the photo comp, maybe?
Lots of snow cannons going, all day
Snow cover above the middle station looked great, might have to come back again before it opens
Pretty dark when I got down. Crap photo, too dark for my auto-focus, too cold to be bothered to mess around with manual focus. Spot my tracks - amazingly very little damage to my skis, skiing over meadows can pay dividends. Was actually able to ski properly all the way down, obviously conditions were better higher up, but more snow than grass even at the bottom.
Got back to Innsbruck to be greeted by decent snowfall, even down in the city. Something should be good tomorrow, now to narrow down the options...
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Just looked out the window, about 3 inches of snow in my (sheltered and protected) garden... and still snowing, too. Better get to bed!
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Foiled by the Patscherkofel website, still showed two lifts as open when I got up at 7:30 this morning, got there to find they were closed (only running lifts at the weekend atm). Not enough time to get to Stubai and back before my German course either
Didn't seem to have as much snow over on that side either (though the cannons were pumping), a good 10cms on the car this morning, presumably around 20cm or so up top... On top of the snow form the last few days, that bodes well for Nordkette's opening day (this Sat, I think)!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Nordkette indeed looks much more snowy than when I went up last week (see above):
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Schön! Shovelled 22-26cm from in front of my house this morning. Now the sun's coming out.
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Sun came out and clouds lifted this afternoon, Nordkette and Axamer look to have a lot of new snow. Freezing level went up to around 900/1000m, but there was enough snow below that it only really melted from the roads. As night fell, the clouds dropped again, and it started snowing (pretty heavily) again.
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I skied up at Obergurgl on Saturday. Lovely conditions with sun coming through from time to time to give decent light. A lot quieter than I expected as well. Had an excellent lunch in the Hohe Mut Alm. Highly recommend that place.
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Well Stubai was pretty good today... Too far south to get the main hit of the storm, but a decent blizzard was raging still - driving snow, high winds, no visibility, exciting skiing! They reported 10cm of fresh in the morning, was more like 20cm in the right places by the time I made it up. Lapped the Windachferner drag lift a few times, pushing further left each line for continuous freshies, until the traverse back became too much of an effort - just me and some old, rad Austrian dude on tiny touring skis, but tearing it up. I've got work the next three days, but if anyone's free and in the area it's well worth your while heading up!
And oh, look, it's snowing again...
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Was just at Stubai on sunday and had no internet access, it was pretty nice although the light was a little flat at times, not waist deep powder but pretty much soft snow everywhere so a fun, if tiring trip from Munich. I went to some of the Christmas markets in Innsbruck as well, was very pretty all lit up at night
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| lynseyf wrote: |
| Was just at Stubai on sunday and had no internet access |
Last year I found no mobile phone access on the Stubai glacier (with an eety prepaid card).
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ha no I have a €20 phone from Saturn hence no internet access away from home
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Decided to give the Arlberg a miss, and just ski Nordkette. Was a good decision...
30/40cms if incredibly light and dry powder, bit tracked when we arrived (lazy morning, I was knackered after a 12 hour shift yesterday), but plenty of fresh left in between. No vis as it was still snowing, but a lot of fun. Not many people up so had a good few runs before it started getting really tracked, down now as I should probably tidy the flat up before my 'rents arrive this eve.
Due to the vis we just lapped the lower ski route down to the chairlift, the upper couloirs should be brilliant tomorrow if the sun shines through, don't think anyone has been skiing them today. Run to the bottom wasn't really worth it, very sharky towards the bottom.
Oh, did I mention it's still snowing?
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