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Obertauern on Saturday (about half the lifts closed, causing chaos and people getting stranded):
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getting stranded....??... that must be quite an achievement in Obertauern!
Awsome photo of 'Sunday Mass'!!
Try not to base your ahole opinion on the area due to rubbish weather... Obertauern is a great early or late season resort and well worth a second visit.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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flangesax, funnily enough it does 
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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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flangesax, Any news about Saalbach, looks good to me on webcams, but worried temperatures might start rising by 7th March! 
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Snow in St. Johann in Tirol too. Skied there this afternoon with continuous light snowfall. Visibility not so great and quite cold but snow was fine. Pistes relatively empty but did hear a few English voices.
The photo was taken part way down the run beside the Bauernpenzing gondola.
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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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| flangesax wrote: |
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Obertauern on Saturday (about half the lifts closed, causing chaos and people getting stranded):
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getting stranded....??... that must be quite an achievement in Obertauern!
Awsome photo of 'Sunday Mass'!!
Try not to base your ahole opinion on the area due to rubbish weather... Obertauern is a great early or late season resort and well worth a second visit. |
The Gamsleiten I and II, Zehnerkarbahn Gondola and Seekarspitzbahn were closed all day Saturday. What stranded people is that around 11:00 they closed the Grunwaldkopf and Sonnenlift 1 (with no apparent good reason: these are low, short chairs that are absolutely necessary for getting around), so nobody in that corner of the resort could get anywhere. Everyone rushed to the T-Bar there, which doesn't even get you out of that hole anyway.
My opinion is not totally based on the weather, although I admit that I'd probably feel better about the place if I'd been able to ski the Gamsleiten II (on Sunday everything except that lift were open).
Most everything open on Saturday was flat and involved loooooong flat runouts at the bottem. Anything a little steeper just meant that you'd end up having to do more poling at the bottom. There was a little somewhat decent off-piste skiers left off the Hundeskogelbahn, but it required skating/poling along the cross country tracks to get back the lift. There was also some OK tree skiing off the Schaidbergbahn and the Gamsleiten I when it opened, but all of it was pretty short. At least that meant some good powder skiing on Sunday, though, as literally nobody else was skiing in the trees despite the blizzard.
My girlfriend is a cross country skier, and that was total crap. The trails were poorly if at all prepared and poorly if at all marked.
I also got the distinct impression that most people were more interested in drinking than skiing. But oddly, we couldn't find any "normal" bars to have a drink in. I can only watch Germans (and they were mostly Germans, not Austrians) make fools of themselves to the same 20 songs over and over and over again (really, every place we went had the same playlist of about 20 songs) for so long.
I enjoyed myself (hey, I was skiing), but for what I'm looking for I think there are better resorts.
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Some fantastic powder shots on following site from last couple of days from around Austria (salzburger)
http://www.lwz-salzburg.org/fototouren.asp
A little taster
Not out skiing at the moment but I am next weekend, the forecast are for lots of snow and cold temps all week! 5 more days in the office.
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espri, cracking little resort that is,lovely little tree runs
i very nearly booked it again this year but zell am see was chosen
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waynos, Fab photos, we are off to Soll tomorrow..........so excited at all the fab snow and forecast 
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djfletcher, will do. I arrive in 4 weeks. I'll PM you to swap contact details while i'm in AUstria and we'll go from there. waynos, fancy doing Hochkonig for a day? It's not quite s far for you as coming to BG.
Cheers
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Any other hitting Soll on the 21st of Feb?
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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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djfletcher, will do. I arrive in 4 weeks. I'll PM you to swap contact details while i'm in AUstria and we'll go from there. waynos, fancy doing Hochkonig for a day? It's not quite s far for you as coming to BG.
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Yes that would be good we can have a snowhead meet here in Muelhbach!!
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You know it makes sense.
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Hi,
After last week snow we had 75 cm in the village which stopped on Sunday but today is really heavy snow, the heaviest I have seen since moving here.
Have a look at the webcam.
There are forecasting another 45 cm !!!
The roads are getting quite bad and all cars have snow chains on. Looking at the radar there is more to come.
Nigel
I will post some pictures later.
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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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HI Dab,
Give me a call if you come to Muelhbach to ski- I will show you around!!
Nigel
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Thanks Nigel! Have to admit I wont be venturing out in the car for a bit now, theres only so much skidding and sliding my nerves can take, probably head out to Wagrain as my son likes the off-piste there and I can sit in my favourite hut with a very large alcoholic something, and calm myself down!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Skied today -a little- on the Buchensteinwand. This is a small ski area in Tirol (1 chairlift + 3 T-bars and linked to Hochfilzen on the other side of the mountain with 2 T-bars - plus beginners' areas). The chairlift is near St. Jakob im Haus, a small village on the road between Fieberbrunn and Waidring (both ski resorts). It started snowing this morning, and it snowed and snowed and snowed. After attending to some business in St. Johann in Tirol, I drove on to the Buchensteinwand lift. With it still snowing heavily, visibility was poor. I found myself stopping after every few turns to wipe my glasses. Having gone off the track into deep snow on the flattish section leading back down to the lift, I was tempted to give up after one run. However, I persevered and had another couple of runs before retiring to warmer quarters. The snow was great when it didn't get too deep (there was about a foot of fresh snow on the piste and almost a foot of snow fell in the couple of hours I skied). Brits around - a young snowboarder from Birmingham helped me look for a ski after a further excursion into knee-deep stuff left me grounded.
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Still snowing and drifting too, will post photos tomorrow.
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Dont you just feel sorry for them, I mean of all places to get snowed in!!
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woop woop
hittin kaprun / zell on Monday. nice
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Spoke to my apartment manager this morning - they've had 30cm's in the Gastein Valley over the last 24 hours and more is due!
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| Kersh, could meet up, when you out? |
I'll arrive on the 14th March. I'll give you a call then. 
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DB, I do doubt some of the figures on the bergfax website. For example, the top of Dorfgastein has reported 170cm while Grossarl Tal is reporting 205cm .... but they're the same place. The top of Dorfgastein and the top of Grossarl is the same mountain.
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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:
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Nigel, looks fantastic!!!!
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Poster: A snowHead
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djfletcher, wow
that looks lovely
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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djflectcher, Cool pics. Looks like it's been puking down.
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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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Nigel great pics! I looked at the third one a couple of times before I realised it's the road up to your house! Wow, that is a lot of snow! It looks more like it's just a track into a field or something!
Have fun out there...
D
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Too much snow in Austria?.........or am I worrying unnecessarily?
I'm off to Obertauern in a little over a week. After looking at the recent weather and snow reports I see that they have had a mass of snow in recent days and that there is no real sign of this letting up in the days ahead
Should I be worrying that all this white stuff is going to endanger my ski trip, or should I be revelling in the fact that the snow will be great?
Looking at the webcams from the area it looks like people are skiing no problems. I appreciate that off piste may be a problem due to the higher avalanche risks, but as far as on piste, am I worrying unnecessarily?
I saw that last weekend the high winds whipped the snow up and caused some runs to be closed, but I guess this can happen anywhere and at any time
Can you guys, especially those in Austria or who have skied Austria in recent days re-assure me that I should not panic because unlike us Brits, the Austrians are geared up for all the snow they are having
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Hi, I just arrived back from Filzmoos in Ski Amade last night - they had loads of snow on Tuesday, I had never seen so much snow. More was forecast for today and tomorrow, but the Austrians were very geared up for clearing roads, and piste bashing, the snow was fantastic and I don't think you should worry if you are wanting to ski on piste. Where we were doesn't have a history of avalanche problems, but anywhere that does they will be controlling and making safe, I am sure.
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Thanks for the re-assurance gamekeeper,
Anyone else?
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Sleipnir,
The Austrians are geared up, they even have memebers of the public working on "schnee-dienst" (translation: snow service). Grown blokes who like playing in the snow drive around with little snow ploughs attached to small 4x4's (e.g. Suzuki Jimny).
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Sleipnir, seriously, don't worry about it, this is their bread and butter. A lof of time and money is invested by resorts and the government in making sure services stay open and working, and making sure the mountains are as safe as can reasonably be expected. This is just what they do, year in year out. Snow, even in these quantities, is part and parcel of winter in the mountains. The year I lived there was another epic snow year, and seriously, nobody ever missed doing anything because of snow.
If it keeps snowing like this, I suspect the main problems you will encounter for skiing are poor visibility and a few late starts as they make areas safe. But a week from now, it is probably equally likely that the sun will be shining, so don't worry about it.
D
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Thanks DB, and Deliaskis,
It's just that only this afternoon I have been told that a friend of a friend who is in Obertauern this week has so far not been able to ski since Sunday due to snowstorms!!?? 
As you appreciate, it did start a few alarm bells ringing. I have been looking at the webcams and there doesn't appear to be much action...
Perhaps as Deliaskis, says, it's the poor visibility that's causing the problem rather than the quantity of snow
Those of you that are Austrian locals, any idea what the weather forecast is likely to be for the next 10 days - the one I saw showed the snow stopping towards the end of next week
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Sleipnir, it could be high winds too that are causing the closure.
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Roads were quite chaotic and the snow is just tipping it down! Tomorrow cant come soon enough;To all you 
heads booked to come here soon, youre gonna love it! 
. Seams crazy as BG is higher than BHG and only about 0.5km away. They share the same lift system too. I think someone needs some training with the measuring stick. 
