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Snow maybe rain tomorrow up to high level
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Incredibly warm yesterday just like skiing in last April,s heatwave !
Anyway,being Saturday empty slopes & Terraces therefore a great day.
Going to be another HOT one today freezing level way above Valluga summit !
Not much change until Wednesday at earliest . Alot of slides on the steeper parts are now happening over night. Piste Snow holding up .
I personally would not bother booking any off piste guiding with the current conditions. You would need to hike kms into the wilderness to find any untracked snow & you cannot do that on a day outing 
The American Daron Rahlves (St Anton World Championships 2001 Super GS Winner) was in town this week filming some scenes for the next Warren Millar movie !
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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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Stanton, How are things looking for the end of the week? I am coming out on Wednesday through Sunday. Any chance of any new snow?
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Take a look> warm but not as warm as l;ast two days.
http://wetter.networld.at/oesterreich/tirol/arlberg-galzig
It looks like rain lower down & in town during the day snow at night. Maybe Friday some more snow.
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Der weitere Trend
Am Donnerstag trocken und zeitweise sonnig. Höchstwerte: 8 bis 15 Grad.
Am Freitag und am Samstag wechselnd bis stark bewölkt, jederzeit Regenschauer und oberhalb von 1600 bis 2000m Schneeschauer. Im Gebirge starker bis stürmischer Westwind. Maximal 8 bis 13 Grad.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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SNOW ALERT
Next Tuesday thru Thursday possible snow, also getting much colder
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Am Montag nicht mehr so windig. Wolken und Sonnenschein wechseln und es wird mild bei 11 bis 17 Grad. Am Dienstag bringt ein Adriatief Regen und Schneefall, die Schneefallgrenze sinkt allmählich auf 800 bis 400m und damit bis in die meisten Täler. Im Süden kommen große Regen und Schneemengen zusammen. Am Mittwoch zunehmend sonnig aber kalt.
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http://ows.public.sembach.af.mil/index.cfm?section=dsplOOP&image=21OWS_EUROPE_MODEL-DATA_UKMO-GLOBAL_SNOW_SFC_??_12Z
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More rain tomorrow DONT book Off Piste complete waste of money. This time next week will be much better.
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stanton, isn't it good to have a guide when conditions are poor, they will find the best there is?
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| kartman wrote: |
| stanton, isn't it good to have a guide when conditions are poor, they will find the best there is? |
Well yes but when conditions are poor (Rain) why waste money its not enjoyable. Just wait for better weather. At the moment everything is tracked out.
Tuesday onwards temperatures much cooler & Snow
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woohoo Arriving on Saturday...
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| stanton wrote: |
| More rain tomorrow DONT book Off Piste complete waste of money. This time next week will be much better. |
how is it looking now? i hear you had some snow tuesday and are expecting more at the weekend. Friends have arrived for the weekend today and next week its my turn, fri to tues, any ideas what we can expect?
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Break from St Anton for a month.
In Telluride North America now. Skiing fantastic.
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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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| stanton wrote: |
| More rain tomorrow DONT book Off Piste complete waste of money. This time next week will be much better. |
how is it looking now? i hear you had some snow tuesday and are expecting more at the weekend. Friends have arrived for the weekend today and next week its my turn, fri to tues, any ideas what we can expect? |
Taken from Pistetopowder's website ( http://www.pistetopowder.com/ )
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4th March - Today we had fresh snowfall! There was heavy snow in Stuben and the groups enjoyed skiing 20cm's of fresh powder from Maroi down to the waterfall and then on to Langen. It was a day of 'continuous face shots' for the level 4 group today. They skied the avalanche barrier couloir and the lift station couloir on Schindler and had amazing powder conditions all the way down. Rendl provided the groups with some nice powder as well, which was on a compact base. Although the bottom of Rendl was not as good with crusty and hard conditions. Milchboden, Star Wars and Albona North face also had some fresh powder to ski, although the light was quite flat.
5th March - Powder day!! Today is what we have been waiting for for a few weeks now. The level 2/3 group found deep powder by the Schongraben T-bar and it was so good they skied it 6 times!! Rossfall had such amazing powder today and the groups enjoyed making the first tracks in the sunshine. The snowboarders headed to Stuben where they enjoyed about 30cm's of fresh powder. This afternoon the Schindlergrat lift opened and the amount of fresh powder waiting for the groups was 'too good to describe'. The Ulmerhange had about 45cm's of fresh powder. There were so many happy faces in the Underground this afternoon and many comments of 'one of my best days ever'.
6th March - Sunshine and powder again today! The Valluga lifts opened today and the groups enjoyed skiing the first tracks in the powder on the North face. It was first tracks all the way down to Zurs, which meant the guide also had to make the tracks in the deep powder for the traverse out of the valley! The Valluga West face was 'absolutely great' with good powder to ski as well. There was also super powder to be found on Gampberg today. The wind has been quite strong in Stuben and there was windblown powder from Maroi by the waterfall down to Langen. At the top of Albonagrat the snow was also windblown, although the lower section by the Kaltenberg hut was still good powder. Star Wars this afternoon was very windblown. There were many slab avalanches to be seen today and especially on Albona North face. |
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Just back from Lech. We arrived last Sunday in the rain and 10 degrees C. Yesterday it was -23 in the village at 8.00am. Had amazing snowfall and the pistes / off piste were transformed. We skied Lech, Zurs, Stuben and St.Anton. I think St.Anton got the bum deal as the conditions were far better in Lech/Zurs. (Plus St.Anton is full of nutters who can't ski. It's just a rumour that it's a resort for the hard core). There isn't anything there (on piste) that's tougher than anywhere else in the Arlberg. Having dissed St.Anton, my favourite run of yesterday was coming down the blue Valfagher (can't spell it) which was covered in soft snow moguls and were a delight to fly over!
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You know it makes sense.
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erica2004, couldn't agree more with you about Lech/Zurs versus St Anton. If you go off-piste, it gets wild at St Anton, but most of the hoards don't and just hurtle down slick runs at high speed. We used to hide on Rendl where it was quieter. IMHO better quality snow and much smaller crowds, along with still darn fine on-off piste terrain, can be found up the valley, especially during a big dump when the road gets closed
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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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| midgetbiker wrote: |
| stanton wrote: |
| More rain tomorrow DONT book Off Piste complete waste of money. This time next week will be much better. |
how is it looking now? i hear you had some snow tuesday and are expecting more at the weekend. Friends have arrived for the weekend today and next week its my turn, fri to tues, any ideas what we can expect? |
Taken from Pistetopowder's website ( http://www.pistetopowder.com/ )
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4th March - Today we had fresh snowfall! There was heavy snow in Stuben and the groups enjoyed skiing 20cm's of fresh powder from Maroi down to the waterfall and then on to Langen. It was a day of 'continuous face shots' for the level 4 group today. They skied the avalanche barrier couloir and the lift station couloir on Schindler and had amazing powder conditions all the way down. Rendl provided the groups with some nice powder as well, which was on a compact base. Although the bottom of Rendl was not as good with crusty and hard conditions. Milchboden, Star Wars and Albona North face also had some fresh powder to ski, although the light was quite flat.
5th March - Powder day!! Today is what we have been waiting for for a few weeks now. The level 2/3 group found deep powder by the Schongraben T-bar and it was so good they skied it 6 times!! Rossfall had such amazing powder today and the groups enjoyed making the first tracks in the sunshine. The snowboarders headed to Stuben where they enjoyed about 30cm's of fresh powder. This afternoon the Schindlergrat lift opened and the amount of fresh powder waiting for the groups was 'too good to describe'. The Ulmerhange had about 45cm's of fresh powder. There were so many happy faces in the Underground this afternoon and many comments of 'one of my best days ever'.
6th March - Sunshine and powder again today! The Valluga lifts opened today and the groups enjoyed skiing the first tracks in the powder on the North face. It was first tracks all the way down to Zurs, which meant the guide also had to make the tracks in the deep powder for the traverse out of the valley! The Valluga West face was 'absolutely great' with good powder to ski as well. There was also super powder to be found on Gampberg today. The wind has been quite strong in Stuben and there was windblown powder from Maroi by the waterfall down to Langen. At the top of Albonagrat the snow was also windblown, although the lower section by the Kaltenberg hut was still good powder. Star Wars this afternoon was very windblown. There were many slab avalanches to be seen today and especially on Albona North face. |
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I did say snow would come this week.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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pretty lovely day today in St. Anton - blue skis till about 3. Pistes pretty firm but good for cruising, odd lumps could still be found, generally look ok since the dump last week, bit more due tomorrow and quite a bit saturday night
great first day covered most of the st.anton side of the moutiain with a little trip over to stuben...fun fun fun. Stopped in the galzig bar @ 15:50 for a cheeky one to let the queues go. Black 2 was wicked with just us on it, but still ' happy valley' was a bit busy...
...moosewirt rammed from about 15:30..
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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My local Farmer contacts report a good dump starting Saturday evening continuing throughout sunday.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Excellent - fingers crossed as I arrive on Sunday early afternoon
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| stanton wrote: |
| My local Farmer contacts report a good dump starting Saturday evening continuing throughout sunday. |
Excellent, arriving friday lunch to enjoy that weekend powder thats due. Anyone whos about fri-tues and knows the local offpiste spots to hit we would appreciate any tips or guiding.
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well if i thought mond was good - tuesday was sublime, decent amount of fresh overnight, hit first runs on rendl with blue skies and fresh pow. All the upper lifts (riffel 2 & gampberg) were open and a great mornings skiing was had. Lunch down the bottom of the hill and then did some runs on the galzig side,. then over to nasserein for the toboganing, which unfortunately was close due to too much snow..
snowed hard all night, but wed was less good as cold/windy/overcast and raining hard at valley level - snowline appeared to be at 1800m, very little open am apart from rendl, Still quite good fun as long as you didn't mind where you were going.and the odd coffe break. main side of the moutain, nothing open apart from Gampen & G;lazig bahn (prob to keep the KK & Moose owners happy)
Sacked it off around 2pm, and got very wet skiing back. Seeems now to have stopped raining, will be more snow tonight probably and some tomorrow. Avalanche cannons have just been going off again, seems a bit strange for 17:15 local but hey..
As of 18:20 local now snowing to village level.
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The farmer forecast has been revised & the predicted weekend snow has been moved futher up next week possibly starting Tuesday night & dumping for about 3 days !!!
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If anyone wants to use the internet cafe in St Anton it's best to get there early before all the farmers pile in to check up on the weather 
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The last ski instructor I skied with in St Anton was a farmer. Great character. Hard-bitten, uncompromising.
I told him I was a scribbler and he looked at my hands. "I can tell" he said.
He pulled out his hands and they were huge.
Their typing must be f**king hopeless - what size are the keyboards in there?
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Hi arriving Saturday 15th for a wek.
Any advise for a new intermediate on the best / easier runs in the resort -we have 2 days private tution booked but any advice would be useful!
Cheers
martin a
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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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You know it makes sense.
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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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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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Skiied 1m+ powder today in sonnenkopf, best powder conditions I've ever skied, that matched with a bluebird day made it legendary.
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More snow.
Upto 50cm more on Galzig !
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Apalling forecast (click the link) for the start of next week (ie 30 March). Freezing level 2700m 
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achilles, but rapidly improving after that (according to Snow Forecast ) . Hope they're right! 
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Axsman, you going to be out there?
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| achilles wrote: |
| Apalling forecast (click the link) for the start of next week (ie 30 March). Freezing level 2700m |
It is Spring !
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achilles, Taking family to Ischgl for a week travelling on Saturday. Looks (at the moment) like we'll arrive to a couple of warm bright days (on well covered pistes!) with a huge dump on Monday/Tuesday with good weather to follow. If that's what's coming then colour me happy! 
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FAQ
. Have a good time in St A. Expect the piste and off-piste to be v busy. Rendl and Stuben were the quietest areas last week, though more competition for untracked snow in Rendl, hence, no photos from that area!
