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kooky, Some have it, and some don't. I have it in abundance... Blind stupidity! At least with a 45 degree angle you are never actually far from the deck  That was seriously the furthest I've ever launched lol.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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twodogs, It is a great area indeed
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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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Thanks also to my local trusty guide. I think you pay them with either cheese or vodka shots.
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Three days in to our Salzburg Super Ski Pass hol....4 days to go. Staying in Dorf Gastein for the week. First time here. Very sleepy village but that's fine by us.
Considering that things were very green-looking when we opened the curtains on Sunday (day 1), the snow/skiing is actually excellent. Valley runs are holding up well in very warm temperatures - though it did snow nearly down to Dorfgastein last night. Brief report of events so far:
Day 1: Dorfgastein/Grossarltal: Great area; full range of conditions - from packed powder & lovely groomers at altitude to total mush in the sun in the afternoon. Still great though.
Day 2: Bad Hofgastein/Bad Gastein: Another great day & excellent area. Slopes very quiet & snow better than yesterday. Valley runs still very skiable - though last 50m to Bad Hof G car park was very thin.
Day 3: Katschberg: Fresh snow down to about 1000m in Dorf G; Wagrain & Flachau all white as we drove through - but no fresh snow when we emerged from the Tauern road tunnel...Katschberg was fantastic. Loved it. Great area and excellent snow - though wind was ferocious at the top and slopes were windblasted here and there. Off piste was mainly very crusty - but we did manage some nice fresh tracks off the top gondola. Another great day.
Day 4: Moelltal Glacier.....(To be continued).
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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twodogs, Thanks for the review! Really useful stuff. Looking forward to that mountain restaurant! I'm sure we'll have a great time. Exploring is the best bit of a new area anyway so we'll follow our nose I'm sure! Looks like we may get a half decent amount of new white stuff just before we arrive so we could be in for a little treat!!!
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jonnybroome, I can thoroughly recommend the Hochmaisalm as well - cheaper than the Steinbock and a little less pretentious to my mind! Mind you the backgrop to the Steinbockalm is jaw droppingly beautiful in the right weather.
There is a snowHead based in Hinterthal as well this season - he's back in the UK for a few days this week but is normally there - CraigJ. It might be worth contacting him for more detailed info. I had a fantastic day skiing with him last week.
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| twodogs, Thanks for the review! Really useful stuff. Looking forward to that mountain restaurant! I'm sure we'll have a great time. Exploring is the best bit of a new area anyway so we'll follow our nose I'm sure! Looks like we may get a half decent amount of new white stuff just before we arrive so we could be in for a little treat!!! |
You're welcome. I'll see if I can upload a couple of photos in a bit if I can work out how. The SteinbockAlm is frustratingly a bit higher up than the point at which the lift from Dienten spits you off and, rather than walk uphill, you can do worse than to take a quick blast down the red and/or black to the foot of the Hochmais and get the heated 6 man chair back up to the front door. We got into the habit of finishing the day here with a quick pint and, once the piste basher had done his first run up, we'd take the home run on fresh late afternoon tracks along with a few others.
Fingers crossed that you get a good dump this week, I bet the runs are beautiful with a coating of snow rather than ice. I slipped over on one very icy run and assumed wrongly that I'd just build up enough snow under my skis to stop my descent. Didn't quite work out that way, I ended up going further - and faster - on my side than on my skis. All good fun. :0)
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7 days to go and it looks like it might snow on every one. Getting excited now. 
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Nunfa1, Have loads of fun, but please don't use it all up before we arrive on the 16th
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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lots of snow, loads. Ange
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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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Megamum, thanks, but I'm not going to promise anything. 
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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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Megamum, the pistes were good anyway dispite the green valleys - but now they are epic.I will see if I can get out with you. My kids are in school/kindergarten so Im free in the mornings. queen bodecia, next weekend - brilliant. Ange
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Poster: A snowHead
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Amazingly fine day up in Zauchensee today, Waynos, you may want to skip the next paragraph.
At least 60cms fresh powder up in "the Garden", in some places it was so deep it was up to my thighs, a crisp fresh minus 6 , so snow was light and fluffy, face shots every run, and if you kept up high in the forests you got untracked every time, awesome stuff!
Did most of the last run down at 3pm into Flachay Winky on piste (after a "moment" with a tree on the Itinery route under the High liner, I am sure a certain person will be along soon to post photos, point and gloat  ) and it was thoroughly unenjoyable, really big moguls the whole way down, with icy scraped patches, and it was horrendously busy. When I got to the bottom I was bloody glad to get my skis off, my legs were shot 
Looks like more of the same tomorrow, so Flangesax, come out and play, and remember…..turn!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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kooky, maybe - just maybe Im free tomorrow - or - Family Flangesax at the least! Ange x
waynos, flights booked yet????
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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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I am reliably informed it is 51 sleeps till the next trip - too long but it is a cheeky extra
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kooky, great pic!
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Pedantica, certainly very different to this time last week, I was ready to get out the tartan picnic rug and hamper 
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kooky, I had to read and weep! Don't worry flights were booked yesterday, out Thursday, looks like a fab powder week on the way.
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Pedantica, I have several onesies that will fit and that you can borrow, are you good for a touch of leopard print?
waynos, I know, I am so sorry, your name was much mentioned and you were greatly missed, still, I will be at work most of next week too, so just making the most of it now 
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kooky,
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are you good for a touch of leopard print?
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Um...not sure...
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Pedantica, I do have a matching muff…….sorry, wrong thread 
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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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kooky, blimey, have you seen a doctor about that?
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I think he's a Witch Doctor. He said that she had to kill her best friend, boil him up in a pot and then rub the liquid all over her muff.
Something about Pal O Mine lotion curing anything 
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Been snowing for at least 36 hours now.
This means driveways need clearing and the snow blower needs to get blowing!
Fears should all be totally over. With all this fresh on top of the pistes everything is back to normal with no worries until season end!.... So grab some bloody cheap media-price-driven flights and head out in this direction!!
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Poster: A snowHead
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flangesax, that is one heck of a lot of snow in my driveway today, lord knows what it´s like up top, must be EPIC! I am not going to risk getting stuck behind anyone up the Zauchensee road, will head over FW side, park there and ski over….see you later xx
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Snowing at the moment in Badhofgastein.
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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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kooky, Looks like it's pumping it down again. Oh I forgot you're working today
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Great up Graukogel today. 20cms fresh overnight snow - at least twice what they had forecast.
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The forecast for the weekend is changing all the time at the moment, currently saying 6deg and rain. Was hoping to get away from that kind of weather, its all we seem to get at home these days.
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My gf is on a touring trip in Kärnten (not all that far away from you guys), and they've had this much snow in the last day/night:
Now all the roads are closed so they're stuck in the valley until Monday apparently. Don't think they mind too much!!
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Wowser, that's more like it!
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FAQ
I'm rather looking forward to our trip I've got things to practice 