 Poster: A snowHead
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It's about 5 minutes walk from everything. That's a long way by Wengen standards!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I assume you mean the Belevedere which is about 5 mins from the cable car and station. Ditto above remark - best ski resort in the world.
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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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Ok yes sorry bellevedere.
Thanks everyone looks like it could be a runner.
Oo one more thing ( for now anyway) is there overnight ski storage at the canle car or does my husband have to carry them everyday 
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NE1, Central Sport (right next to the Mannlichen cable car) has a large ski and boot storage facility. It costs a few CHF per day (unless you're renting the equipment from them in which case I think it's included).
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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PoWdEr Alert
Over 30cm of snow in Mürren
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stab, 
Real side of the mountain...lol
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I'm going to Wengen...........very excited
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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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NE1, so you should be
Vie from the Bellvue hotel this morning, it's just a few hundred meters from the Belvedere Hotel
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Only 15cm of snow at Wengen and 30cm at the Lauberhorn/Kleine Scheidegg so far but the season hasn't started yet
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You know it makes sense.
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Mürren today....absolutely stunning !
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Chris Brookes, a beautiful photograph of Murren!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Brian T, taken by a friend who just loves rubbing it in
Plenty more pictures but its just them having lunch at the Schiltgrat (after hiking up it) then skiing down today....the joys
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Few people have managed to get out on skis on the Lauberhorn today, 4 pairs of skis outside the startbar, but the sun is already thinning the snow in places
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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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stab, great that you are back - will be hiring skis from you on 22 Dec!
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skilegs, Are you there for the New Year week as well?
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I see that you can purchase 6 day full area passes online at the moment for a discount price of 258chf, should I go for that now? I presume
that deal won't be available in Wengen. 
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provenjohn, Correct, that ticket has to be booked online a couple of weeks ahead of the start date. Order them now is my advice. (I received my discounted liftpasses in the post just a few days ago) 
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Alastair Pink, Thanks, will do then 
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Oh you guys......why didn't you mention this before......I've now paid full price thru TO. GRRRRR.
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NE1, Contact your TO and ask for a refund, pointing out that you can buy them yourself much cheaper than they are selling them for. Failing a total refund, ask them to match the discounted price! If they won't play ball then say you will tell everyone else you meet who's travelling with the TO about them charging more for the liftpasses...
Edit: And the discount was mentioned before in this thread, I commented about the discount on 1st October: http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=83079&start=1160
Last edited by You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net. on Mon 18-11-13 21:16; edited 1 time in total
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Alastair Pink, Yes!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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skilegs, Well I'm sharing an apartment in Lauterbrunnen with friends New Year week, so although as I'll be with them I probably won't get to ski with you, hopefully I'll be able to see you at one of the DHO social evenings. 
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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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| stab wrote: |
| Getting old = riding powder. |
From that video it looks like you're getting old pretty well..... 
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You know it makes sense.
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Blooming To wants to charge me £35 to cancel lift passes - admin charge!
Lift pass is £45ish cheaper.... I will talk to other half, it's probably still worth it
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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Blooming To wants to charge me £35 to cancel lift passes - admin charge!
Lift pass is £45ish cheaper.... I will talk to other half, it's probably still worth it
Just checked invoice and they have charged us £236 per lift pass! Even with postage and key card charges they aren't that much at full price! TO don't usually overcharge like this I'm sure, maybe they do and I've just never noticed. We don't usually book passes in advance.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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NE1, The full price of 323CHF plus 5CHF keycard deposit = 328CHF, which at today's Travelex exchange rate of 1.429CHF to the £ equates to £229.53, so yes the TO are making a small profit even on the full list price.
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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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stab, done most of those routes save the one by the avalanche barriers, pretty sure I know where those ones are though, these days I'm much too heavy to ski in that depth of powder  the last down telegraph field used to be a piste, personally I always preferred that route to the one you have to take now (sticking to pistes).
NE1, what is particularly bad is tour op are probably getting a cheaper rate by bulk ordering
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| D G Orf wrote: |
| stab, done most of those routes save the one by the avalanche barriers, pretty sure I know where those thes are though, these days I'm much too heavy to ski in that depth of powder the last down telegraph field used to be a piste, personally I always preferred that route to the one you have to take now (sticking to pistes) |
Standard way home for me, piste free / idiot free from start bar to inner wengen. Got to be selective when to go because the last few years the peanuts have been following tracks into the woods. some dick wrote a freeride book last year detailing all the routes around here including aerial photos, if this was a surf town he would have had his nose broken and be run out of town.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Talked with other half. We are gonna cancel the lift passes with TO. The pass office will definitely post to England?
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NE1
Ski passes will arrive safely in the post from Switzerland along with a piste map to help you plan out your days skiing.
Last year we found out from here about the half price offer of last year and I have to say Ski Miquel were fine with us cancelling our pre book passes and didn't charge any "admin fee"
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| Cat66 wrote: |
NE1
Ski passes will arrive safely in the post from Switzerland along with a piste map to help you plan out your days skiing.
Last year we found out from here about the half price offer of last year and I have to say Ski Miquel were fine with us cancelling our pre book passes and didn't charge any "admin fee" |
Just to explain to NE1 in case he's wondering, last year the 6 day Jungfrau region pass was available online at half price, but only for certain specific dates (it excluded the peak dates). This year the online reduction is smaller, but it's available for all dates.
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stab, too right, mind you when I learned to ski in Wengen we used to get taken down all sorts of routes, there used to be a run through the woods by the side of the racetrack starting up near the top of the t-bar, another around the back of plum pudding which if memory serves came out somewhere below the cowshed on the bumps, more down through the trees to Grund from Kl Scheidegg and Mannlichen most of these would now take you through the wildlife protection zones I think, but 35+ years ago they didn't exist, mind you they didn't put no skiing signs on the road from the station to Baren either
There use to be a high level run above the railway from near Allmend coming out near the Old cable car bottom station as well but I'm not old enough to remember that I think it went from near the barns by the old Cafe Oberland but I may be wrong, with modern buildings it may no longer be useable
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Everything is useable
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Everything is useable
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FAQ
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Tell them that you'll lodge a complaint with ABTA that they didn't insert a warning in their brochure e.g "Warning! You may be able to purchase liftpasses cheaper on-line then ordering from us....." 