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Samerberg Sue,
Junior does a good shoulder massage apparently. He'll sort you out in no time.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Shoulder is not ready for massage yet musher. Maybe in another month when the internal stitches are finally properly bedded in!
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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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clarky999, You might want to change the title of your thread to 14/15.......that way you'll get more views from folks like me keen to look at the inevitable endless photos of you in the near future enjoying yourself in all that early season pow, whilst thinking of the next 4 months chugging by 
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Just change the thread title to "Clarky's reverse Schadenfreude thread 14/15"
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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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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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Snow on the very peak of the Patcherkofel today 
Lets hope the snow comes early this year as its been such a miserable summer compared to last year in Innsbruck. Im hoping this precipitation continues all winter - fingers crossed
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skiorboard, It's going to be an epic 12/13 style winter, I just know, dont know how, just do.............. 
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Markymark29, I've got a feeling it is going to be too. Then again i get this feeling every year 
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^^Thanks Mark!
Last edited by Ski the Net with snowHeads  on Sat 13-09-14 21:49; edited 1 time in total
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Well today ended up being unexpectedly great!
Me and my mate Andy dragged ourselves up to Stubai at around lunchtime with horrible hangovers, to find pretty poor visibility but only about 10 people on the whole mountain. Hangovers dissappeared with the first turns though! I've had (apart from some repeated cowdoo with my ex) one of the best summers I've had in a long time so I wasn't really in too much of a rush for winter, but wow, I'd forgotten just how JOYFUL skiing is!! Only a few lifts open, but with empty slopes and 10cms of fairly dense new snow on a smooth base conditions were really nice, with plenty of fresh tracks to be had just off the sides of the pistes (careful, there ARE crevasses about). We just spent the afternoon ripping about hollering like Americans much to the lifties amusement. SOOOO good to be back on snow!! Fell in love with my Bibby Pros all over again too; such a great do it all ski.
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On a more sober note, WOW the glaciers have shrunk!!! So many more rocks and bigger (wide open!) crevasses about than now than at the same point in the last 3 seasons. Lack of snowfall last season really has had an impact, even with a cooler than average summer (though I don't know how much of this summer's plentiful precipitation has fallen as rain/snow at the glacier?).
With the current extreme low tide there are a couple things anyone visiting soon should really bear in mind, which are much more of an issue now than they've been at any point that I've seen since 2009. If you're out early season and you don't know the terrain be VERY careful exploring offpiste - there are places where being a few metres away from the piste puts you right in the middle of a yawning crevasse field. Do some research (google earth is actually pretty useful in this case for noting the most heavily crevassed areas) and ask the lifties (they're pretty helpful in this regard) before going out to play. It's also worth noting that there's a lot of very smoothly polished rock at Stubai, which snow slides off very easily. Regardless of whether enough snow moves to to really avalanche, you don't want to be traversing over these areas as getting dropped elbow first onto rock bloody hurts (lessons learnt from late last season!).
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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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Back at Stubai today, and the weather has NOT been kind to the glacier the last week! Even the open pistes are currently a mix of glacial ice, meltwater, rocks, dirt, tiny patches of nice slushy snow and iceball death cookies...
Definitely type 2 fun, but fun nonetheless - it's pretty involving skiing, carry speed into total unknown conditions and make last second decisions of when to ollie over puddles/rocks/cracks, where you have room to slash a quick turn or dump speed etc.
Also really interesting to see where the crevasses are. Totally on show atm, which is useful info for when the snow comes.
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Love to see some pics and/or vid if you can please.
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You know it makes sense.
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Mike Pow, I forgot my memory card and don't the cable to get the photos from the internal memory here, but the webcams show things pretty accurately.
Everything you see on the first cam is currently open (the Windachferner area, Wildspitz lift and Dauenferner drag/pistes also opened this weekend):
http://www.stubaier-gletscher.com/ger/Winter/Stubai-Live/Webcams
The conditions are right on the limit of being 'openable' atm; without snow next week I doubt they'll be running lifts.
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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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Stubai Glacier.. Reckon that will be gone within 10years
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Poster: A snowHead
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stanton, I dunno, seems to have been fairly stable in the last 10 years, without much in the way of mass flux (if anything over the last four autumns coverage has been better each year) - based purely on my observations and no measurements though. Definitely hit very hard this summer, but the Fernau side, Windachferner and what I could see of the skin access glaciers seem to be a bit healthier.
Time will tell, but it could definitely do with a few good snow years!!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Absolutely pissing down with rain now, and down to 5° when on the arlberg pass when I was driving back to Schruns this evening, so it looks like the glaciers will be getting the snow that they need!!
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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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