A couple of the guys (Pädel and Daniel) from Pearsonstyle (http://ps.bloglounge.ch/) took a two week trip to Japan for some amazing skiing leaving the Jungfrau Region behind them (great video !!)
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Thankyou mr Orf, Might actually be a bonus.. If I can convince the wife to stay a little longer on our departing sat (18th).
Is Friday usually free practice?
At least most of the traffic that weekend will be going in the opposite direction to us (departing)
Can't beleive we are nearly booked for next year before this season even ends
gamer2471, Wed/Thursday will be training runs usually, you can go to the stands at the bottom for free and maybe get some racers autographs, Fiday is the Supercombined a downhill followed bt a single slalom later in the day, Saturday is the downhill, Sunday the Slalom
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thanks again for info... much appreciated.. Goldmine this website (and the all important people like yourself who are happy to share their knowledge)
Wonderful, wonderful day today after the murky conditions yesterday. Blue skies all day and plenty of snow. A great day, despite chest infection and breathlessness. I would rather be under the weather here in Wengen than well in Birmingham
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Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
I'm back home, having flown back on Saturday night.
I think I'll go back to Grindelwald next year, maybe earlier in the season and see if I can do a few more of the off-piste routes.
Hmm.. that's a point. I wonder where my book went! :S
After all it is free
After all it is free
Mürren is host of the Swiss National Championship in Telemark on the 13th and 14th of april this year!
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Hi,
Anyone have any recommendations on a ski school or indeed an instructor for beginners in Murren for next season ? (Feb)
Would we need to book (and pay?) in advance ?
Total newbies - but will have had a good few UK fridge visits, backed up by some dry visits too, before we embark in Feb 2014.
thanks for any insider info ..
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gamer2471, I have a feeling (Chris might be able to confirm) that there is only one Ski School in Murren which would be the Swiss Ski and Snowboard School, can't advise about instructors though I'm afraid
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gamer2471 wrote:
Hi,
Anyone have any recommendations on a ski school or indeed an instructor for beginners in Murren for next season ? (Feb)
Would we need to book (and pay?) in advance ?
Total newbies - but will have had a good few UK fridge visits, backed up by some dry visits too, before we embark in Feb 2014.
You are unable to pre-book (online registration means nothing) so you are best to head to the office which is located next to the Hotel Jungfrau on the nursery slopes when you arrive. They will ask your ability and then match you to a private instructor or class depending on how you would like to pay (prices on the website).
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
thanks to you both Chris and DG.. I had a suspision there was only the one when we had a look around 2 weeks back. Thankyou for the link and also thankyou for the info regarding pre-booking (or lack of option)... i guess we'll head over first thing Saturday when we arrive next Jan.
Thanks again guys - most appreciate as always.
Cheers,
Frank.
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So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
gamer2471, You will be fine in January, its never fully booked that month
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
BBC 4 program '10 things you didn't know about...' featuring Avalanches seems to be featuring a lot of footage recorded in Murren and Wengen area:
I have been told that Mürren has over 10cm of new snow already !! (last bit of winter as the temps rise on Sunday)
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Poster: A snowHead
but lifts are closed, right?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
HeidiAmsterdam wrote:
but lifts are closed, right?
no, the lifts at Birg/Schilthorn are still open until tomorrow !
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Dang.......
Bummer I'm stuck here waiting for a date to get my gall bladder taken out. Sheeez what would you rather be doing, Skiing Schilthorn, or waiting for a surgery date?
Bummer I'm stuck here waiting for a date to get my gall bladder taken out. Sheeez what would you rather be doing, Skiing Schilthorn, or waiting for a surgery date?
Or should we just say that's a no brainer.
hmmmmmm...
good luck with the op when you get it
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Chris Brookes wrote:
HeidiAmsterdam wrote:
but lifts are closed, right?
no, the lifts at Birg/Schilthorn are still open until tomorrow !
Season extended in Murren - skiing next weekend too
oh, this is killing me... I'm so stuck at the moment! I'm not allowed to travel ATM! apart from the blasted gall stones, I really have nothing better to do than ski...
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HeidiAmsterdam wrote:
oh, this is killing me... I'm so stuck at the moment! I'm not allowed to travel ATM! apart from the blasted gall stones, I really have nothing better to do than ski...
Mrs telford_mike had her gall bladder removed a few years ago. No ill effects, and she's been skiing like a hero ever since. Good luck with your op, I'm sure everything will be fine
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telford_mike wrote:
HeidiAmsterdam wrote:
oh, this is killing me... I'm so stuck at the moment! I'm not allowed to travel ATM! apart from the blasted gall stones, I really have nothing better to do than ski...
Mrs telford_mike had her gall bladder removed a few years ago. No ill effects, and she's been skiing like a hero ever since. Good luck with your op, I'm sure everything will be fine
I'm not worried about post op...it's just until then, I run the risk of another attack, and that's a daunting thought...last attack a couple weeks ago, I landed in the ER and I was in such a state of distress, they whisked me past everyone else in the waiting room they started treating me like I was having a heart attack!
Now imagine that at 2,400 meters... ski patrol coming to my rescue, then me bumping down the mountain in a toboggan, and that doesn't even get me to a hospital!
So, perhaps I will sneak in a day at Mammoth the 4th of July - being the patriotic yankee that I am, but not sure if that counts as this season, or next season
For the rest, still looking for an accommodation within my budget in Wengen or Murren. Chances are it will be Wengen, everything affordable in Feb is booked up...and I have Verbier at Christmas, and begin Feb an Epic Ski meet up in St. Anton
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Chris Brookes wrote:
Go Chris!
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George Lazenby and others will be at the Grand opening on the 29th June 2013
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.
Trailer for the latest Warren Miller Freeride movie which is out in November 2013 - Highlight: Free-riding on the Schilthorn and footage from the region!
Brian T, he did well to get through all those fences, a nasty bit of barbed wire at the Wasser Station Tunnel and multiple Electric fences below the Hanneg Schuss, oh and I wonder who let the Milka Cows onto the Course
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good find Brian T,
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Snowed down to 1100m today (May 24th !!!!!!)
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Almost 2 feet of snow feel over night in Murren .... What Is happening to the weather.
Another 80cm forecast for Friday & Saturday apparently. Crazy.
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Very crazy, I've never heard of such large snowfalls so late, I've been out in July/August and had falls of 15-20cm at Kleine Scheidegg but there was only a light dusting at Allmend and all the snow was gone in 48 hours, the Lauberhorn this year has yet to loose its snow covering and I'd guess skiing in the area could certainly have carried on for the whole of April this year though towards the end you'd have had to get the train from Allmend
The Schilthorn Cableway AG plans to build next to its base station in Stechelberg together with the municipality of Lauterbrunnen, a parking garage with approximately 640 parking spaces. The need for additional and covered parking is great. Especially on sunny and snowy days, the current parking lot is congested, so many vehicles must park in the surrounding meadows or along the roadside. "It is a sustainable and interesting project," opened Peter Wälchli Mayor Lauterbrunnen, in the evening. "The community is Lauterbrunnen for years in the process of local planning and building ordinance that falls in here," he continued. In addition, the parking garage for residents and tourists would be a real improvement in quality and well put into the landscape. With regard to the construction of the car park, the building ordinance No. 5 "Lengwald" is revised. "The goal is to strive for unbundling and simplification, and to create space for the future," concludes Peter Wälchli.
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Chris Brookes wrote:
Construction work for the PIZ GLORIA VIEW.
That looks like it'll be a summer thing, or are they planning on putting up a walkway out to it in the winter too? Would be a shame, I think, to make it too easy to access that ridge, and the offpiste below?
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feef wrote:
Chris Brookes wrote:
Construction work for the PIZ GLORIA VIEW.
That looks like it'll be a summer thing, or are they planning on putting up a walkway out to it in the winter too? Would be a shame, I think, to make it too easy to access that ridge, and the offpiste below?
FAQ
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(prices on the website).
