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http://www.salzburg.com/sn/06/12/28/artikel/2849539.html
Summary of the article from Salzburg news.
Many reservoirs supplying the snowguns are getting empty in the Salzburg region. They were used with maximum capacity in the past days.
Zell am See is an exception, the storage-lake here can be easily refilled from the natural sources.
The operators in Zauchensee (the largest reservoir in Salzburg) say that they will be in trouble if the snow does not arrive soon.
The snow may come soon. The freezing level fall at 500 meter from the beginnning of next week.
From Monday to Wednesday, the resorts in the Salzburg region expect 40 cm (or more) fresh snow.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Precipitation is arriving for the Eastern Alps, but temps look kinda high in some places next week. I wouldn't be surprised to see a bit of rain mixed in with the snow at lower altitudes.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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kerekip/kamikaze - thanks for the tips and pics! much reasured!
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Timmaah, looking forward to the pictures from Stubai and I want to hear your opinon on the resort.
They claim they have 110 km pistes, but this is an exaggeration, at least all my friends believe so.
It is not easy to check it, the piste length data for each piste have been removed from their web site.
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The claim of 110km probably includes all the resorts in the Stubai valley. The Gletcher is the largest area in the valley. From what I remember last year they said it had 60km. Extensive skiing for a glacier, many blue and red pistes. There are just a couple of black runs, but I'm only an intermediate so I'm not entitled to comment. For me it was excellent. Off piste is dangerous - as you are surrounded by the abyss at these heights. There is the Wilde Gruben 8km run to the bottom. It is not shown as a piste on the map, but so many people descend on it, it's not really off-piste either. You can go from 3200m to 1750m. All the pistes except for the Wilde Gruben are over 2200m, so snow should be there. The whole thing is not a resort in the true sense. The only accomodation is a small hotel at the base of the lifts. You have to stay in one of the villages in the valley (Fulpmes, Neustift, etc.). You go to the glacier to ski and only to ski. And you may go also to take photos - it's a fantastic view from the top. Just pray that you have plenty of sun. Snow will be for sure.
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| btud wrote: |
| The claim of 110km probably includes all the resorts in the Stubai valley. |
The whole thing is not clear. They claim that the glacier has 110 km runs, and this is the largest glacier in Austria (??). (Hintertux is the second with 89 km runs). According to previous data, ADAC books, or Tyrolian state reports issued before 2003, the glacier has 50-60 km runs. It suddenly doubled in the past years without any development on the pistes.
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| There is the Wilde Gruben 8km run to the bottom. It is not shown as a piste on the map, but so many people descend on it, it's not really off-piste either. |
The web site previously stated that this run was 14 km long. According to 'older' maps, it is only 10 km. And not off-piste at all.
Apart from this, I am sure it offers a good skiing. Now, it is 100 cm snow, and -6C. 24/25 lifts open if I can trust the web site 
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At the moment they say that 52km of pistes are open, so thats just under half, but almost all their lifts are open and at least their funpark is open so I wont get bored.
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Ski Amade area is great! www.skiamade.com There are lots of runs open - enough for me to do something different everytime I go skiing and I live here! Went to Radstadt, Altenmarkt, Zauchensee and Flachau-Winkl today - Great Fun!!! 
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YAY! http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/AUXX0021_c.html <-- thats forecast for neustift am stubaital, but it gave me steinach looks like snow seems more likely for the first of jan onwards. Sadly its looking to stop the day i leave :/ Which means i will be in for a snow-packed week of skiing... Not sure if thats too good...
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cathy, I've got friends heading off there today - so its looking ok, isnt it!  Are you going there soon?
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geri, oooh - my fingers are crossed for them! We're not going till 20 Jan so a few more weeks yet for the snow to come 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Good day all,
Here's a snow report I get sent to me..
AUSTRIA Conditions in Austria are unchanged. Temperatures remain below freezing and skies are sunny and blue. The good news is that the clouds should move in over the weekend bringing with them the chance of some fresh snowfall next week. The best conditions are on the higher resorts or glaciers. Many of the lower resorts are operating totally on man-made snow. The best skiing is found at Hintertux (30/130cm), Kaprun (35/102cm), Kaunertal (10/120cm) and Pitztal (20/135cm).
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...stubai 30/100
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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Bad Hofgastein had some snowy runs but many icy 'motorways'.
Dorfgastein had more space with snow. Can ski to the valley.
Both had some 'closed runs' which were actually still being used.
Sportgastein was reported as better than Hofgastein.
As we left (early Dec 29) snow was falling. Not heavily.
General point. I liked the area and the timetabled bus service seems better than some reviews suggest. And it is a really short drive to Salzburg. Sorry- gone OT now.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Hey guys - have just got back from Saalbach and its not that bad. Conditions are hard and icy in the morning and icy with sticky snow mounds in the afternoon BUT the sun is shining, the sky is blue, the mountains are beautiful and the beer is cold! At least 80% of the runs are open with just a few links missing (you can even find snow if you try hard and know where to look!). Don't be downhearted - we enjoyed it anyway.
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Just to add a little more detail to Bev's report:
Saalbach Hinterglemm 23rd-30th December Report.
Just got back from our customary Christmas week in Austria and most of all, have to say congratulations to the Pisteurs of the resort. They have had the grand total of about 30cm of snow to work with all season, unseasonably high temperatures, (the sunny side of the resort is mostly green), and yet the resort was about 90% open when we left on Saturday and there were very few places you could not go. The resort is busy, but we only had to queue once during the week.
The cannons were operating wherever it was cold enough and despite a cloudless week of warm temperatures the snow actually improved and more runs opened as the week went on. We are scratchy lower intermediates (Bev would say upper beginners!) and found the icy pistes tough going. The snow is almost all artificial and pointing skis downhill produces scary amounts of velocity with few stopping options. (Snow-mounds are my friends! They give you brakes and a soft landing.) We got into the habit of not going out until 10.30 so the sun could soften the snow. It got quite slushy in the afternoons and conditions were quite like April at times. All the same, conditions never prevented us from going anywhere and there was some very good skiing to be found. There is always an upside and we enjoyed long sunbathing lunches and the festive sight of a bunch of South Africans skiing in swimwear.
We popped over to Kitzbuhel on Wednesday evening and the local paper I picked up on the train was forecasting snow for Monday. It certainly looked as if the weather was about to change as we left with some cloud appearing and a bit of wind getting up.
The best skiing, as Kamikaze said, is over on the Astiz/ Leogang side and you can get all the way down to the valley floor over there. The thinnest snow is on the sunny side at Hinterglemm, but again, you can get all the way down and the links at Lengau to the Zwolferkogel are all open. The only significant runs not open last week were the 7Km run down to Vorderglemm and a little drag lift at the top of the Bernkogel that meant we could not link back to Saalbach on that side. I believe the 7K is now open thanks to the cannons. The long black down the Schattberg opened while we were there, not that we fancied it! The drag, the only important lift not open, by the way, is a totally snow-less track through the woods, so you will have to walk that or go somewhere else! We skied almost the entire resort, never had to resort to a bus and skied back to the chalet every day.
The pistes are mostly over grassland and there is the odd stone. Our skis will be going in for a bit of work, but nothing too serious. There was the odd “brown run” and I discovered moss is OK to ski on!
So, despite heat-wave and snow-drought, our ski options were hardly limited. Last year we had a metre of perfect snow: This year most of the resort open and icy pistes because of the cannon snow and high temperatures. That is the way it goes!
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Glad you had a good time in Saalbach Bishes, we were wondering how you were getting on (the 'yoof' say hi to Jon).
I put a bit about Ischgl in the Resorts section, we had no slush at all in the afternoons, that's when the snow became very hard and icy. It was very cold all week and the snow cannons were blasting away most of the time. The quality of the piste care was the best we've ever seen, some days a piste would be closed while it was worked on, then open the next day and another closed. We had some wonderful snow to play in, a few stones here and there but not nearly as many as we expected, just a few small scratches on the bases of our skis which have already been serviced ready for Verbier in 3 weeks
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| Chris Bish wrote: |
We popped over to Kitzbuhel on Wednesday evening and the local paper I picked up on the train was forecasting snow for Monday. It certainly looked as if the weather was about to change as we left with some cloud appearing and a bit of wind getting up.
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Chris Bish -- Nice report.
How long did it take in total to get from Saalbach to Kitzbuehel by train? How much did it cost?
What was the snow like in Kitz?
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Chris Bish, thanks for the report. Did you happen to take any pictures?
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Thanks guys!
Hello to Rachel and her youngsters. Jon did send a hopeful text to Gabby, but I guess she was elsewhere.
kerekip, Pictures will have to wait until next week when I can access broadband at work. It is sooo slow on dial-up!
Whitegold, Glad I could lighten your gloom! (You have been a bit negative recently...)
If you work the trains right, and you need to use the website I would think, the train from Zell takes around 50 minutes and costs around 8 or 9 euros each one way. We took the Postbus from Saalbach to ZAS station, about 25 minutes and 3 or 4 euros. They didn't connect all that well for us and we had a little walk around Zell -nice place! There is a slow train that stops everywhere too, but you change at Saarfelden for that.
It was chalet night off and we fancied a trip out and to say hello to Kitz again.
Snow in Kitzbuhel was reported to be much the same as we had in Saalbach, though people were saying that Saalbach has better piste management. I certainly think it would take some beating.
We were quite late back and paid 40 euros for a taxi from Zell to Saalbach.
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CB -- Thanks.
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St Anton website shows snow for the next 5 days. Any of you weather experts out there care to concur or totally disagree?
I expect the resort website forecasts take an optimistic view but with a forecast like that there must be some snow coming - mustn't there??
I'm out there on 6/1 so it would be fantastic if it turns out to be right!!!
Happy New Year All!!!
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Web cam show Schladming /Planai,Ramseu getting some snow at last.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Looks like storm has hit Saalbach. Almost everything on the Schattberg/Zwolferkogel side of the valley is closed due to the wind, and webcams show it snowing fairly hard.
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Kitzbuhel has the lightest of dustings down in the town and the webcams look nicely snowy! But it needs to stay for 3 weeks and not disappear.......
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You know it makes sense.
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Saalbach website is posting just 2cm of freshies today. Some of the webcams still have patches of brown in them this afternoon. One carpark webcam there is showing barely any fresh snow and perhaps even some sleet.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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Live Nordic from Garmish today on Eurosport showed lots of new snow and it was still falling. Looks hopeful for that area. They said on the commentary it was coming from Munich way, so presumably heading Tyrolwards.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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does anyone know where I can find on the web a precipitation radar covering Austria, been looking for ages, can get German and Swiss ones but not one that covers the whole of Austria, any ideas??
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Austrian papers reported that it had been the mildest New Year's day in Vienna since 1852. They measured 13,9C.
But the good news is that snow has arrived in Austria. Some areas in Voralberg expect 50-70cm fresh snow by Thursday morning.
It would be too good to be true.
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Hi,
Try this one- I don't think the radar cover's all of Austria for some reason!!!- I have not found one that does.
http://www.wetteronline.de/radar/eurodOSf.htm
Lots of snow here today!!. Been snowing all day about 20 cm so far.
Some of the lifts had to shut early because of the wind and snow. I have never seen so many snow chains on car, lorries,buses as I have today.
We were lucky in our resort that nearly all our lifts had been running all the last two weeks- only 40cm natural snow but has been making lots from he snow canons.
Nigel
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Saalbach reports 30 cm fresh snow!!!
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kerekip, But only (currently) on the German section of the website. Perhaps they don't want us English to know about it until after they've had first lines
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kamikaze, this is funny. I thought they use the same database. And the German section lists more lifts in operation
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