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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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| cardweg wrote: |
Hopefully that should make it easier to get off as we dismount lifts (of do we have to actually ski in masks too?) |
No, generally only in the queue, or if sharing a lift with people not in your group.
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| No, generally only in the queue, or if sharing a lift with people not in your group. |
We've never really queued at all in the last 12 days - we've ridden loads of lifts (chairs and gondolas) on our own. Assuming it will be the same for your low season trip cardweg.
The bonus of being on our own on the lifts means we've been able to take our masks off as soon as the lift is out of the station (putting it back on for entry to gondola top stations of course  )
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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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When skiing you can do what you want. Interestingly, in Kitzbuhel the recorded announcements changed today from something like 'On the lift, wear a FFP2 mask or required alternative mask or tube scarf', to 'On a lift or queuing, wear an FFp2 mask'. This may be in preparation for people turning up for the Hahnenkamm race on the weekend.
Re the snow, we've probably had about 10cms today, with more due on Saturday. Quite windy today, and the lifts on the ridgeline from the SteinbergKogel through to the top of the Hieslegg shut down due to wind after ~11:00, but everything else stayed open
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| mountainaddict wrote: |
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| Oh dear - we're for Obergurgl on Saturday. Any sign of new snow? |
I'm sure you will still enjoy Obergurgl
cardweg.
My comments were relative. |
Relatively speaking, crap snow is crap snow surely? 
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| viv wrote: |
When skiing you can do what you want. Interestingly, in Kitzbuhel the recorded announcements changed today from something like 'On the lift, wear a FFP2 mask or required alternative mask or tube scarf', to 'On a lift or queuing, wear an FFp2 mask'. This may be in preparation for people turning up for the Hahnenkamm race on the weekend.
Re the snow, we've probably had about 10cms today, with more due on Saturday. Quite windy today, and the lifts on the ridgeline from the SteinbergKogel through to the top of the Hieslegg shut down due to wind after ~11:00, but everything else stayed open |
I was in Kitz today and wonder what the regulars think of my views?
61 euro for a day ticket with access to the base area limited by the race and only one way down. Made it over to Hollersbach midstation and turned back. Dire sign posting, wrong in many places, until a sign stating G8 was closed. No problem, as I needed F9, but that was closed as well. Cue long walk uphill and off piste down to the road. Lifties not interested.
I've skiied in many places and doubt I will find anywhere as poorly marked as Kitzbuhel! If I want a Bognor jacket, I'll come back......
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@Val Desire, can't comment on the signing unfortunately as I haven't skied Kitz since 2013 (I think!), but lift pass prices have definitely shot up this 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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Fair bit of new snow overnight but very localised. Places like Patscherkofel relatively little, and the snowholes/stau areas like Nordkette and Seefeld more. My gf was running close to the Nordkette base station in Hungerburg this morning and reckons there was enough new snow to ski all the way down, assuming one isn't too previous about ones bases (there was no snow there at the bottom station at all before).
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There was a lot of fresh snow (20cm+) in Skiwelt (Brixen and Ellmau at least) today, with more forecast tomorrow
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You know it makes sense.
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There was a lot of fresh snow (20cm+) in Skiwelt (Brixen and Ellmau at least) today, with more forecast tomorrow
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No fresh at all at Soelden today. Another sunny day. Bitterly cold in the wind. -17C at 3000m and unbearable wind chill if removing gloves for photos.
Still great fun though, with the full range of conditions on a grand tour of all 4 corners of the lift map. From great packed powder conditions on the glacier and at altitude, to wind-blasted/scoured/slick in places.
The valley run to Giggijoch was particularly interesting in the scoured stakes - especially with the numerous nutters who are happy to play human slalom and ski it with reckless disregard for all others at World Cup racer speed. Mrs MA and I both had a couple of terrifying close shaves as a result. Glad to make it to the bottom in one piece 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Does anyone use the IVB Scout app for finding out Innsbruck public transport times?
The app used to work brilliantly but now it doesn’t seem to work (for me at least).
Has anyone else had the same problem or found a fix?
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Poster: A snowHead
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Does anyone use the IVB Scout app for finding out Innsbruck public transport times?
The app used to work brilliantly but now it doesn’t seem to work (for me at least).
Has anyone else had the same problem or found a fix?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Oceanic, Not heard of that one, but try VVT or ÖBB Scotty (though I use the first one and IME it is a bit more accurate as it showed some ski busses running when Scotty hadn't been updated to list them).
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@Scarlet,
Thank you. The VVT SmartRide App seems to be more or less identical to the app that I previously used.
Last edited by Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see? on Sat 22-01-22 20:36; edited 1 time in total
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@Oceanic, Confusingly, you can't use it to buy tickets though – for that you need the VVT Tickets app
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@Scarlet,
I usually buy a “Ganz Tirol” weekly ticket (when I’m there on holiday) so not so worried about buying tickets.
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Woke to very light snow in Huben this morning. After a leisurely morning of checking out of our digs; driving up to see the Tirol's highest waterfall from a snowy vantage point; wandering round the (small) 16th century bit of Oetz; and drinking coffee, we drove to the Venet ski area, near Landeck, for an afternoon's skiing.
The car park was virtually empty, the mountain was shrouded in fog...and we had 10-15cm of unlimited, light powder at the sides of the runs. Amazing for a 1.00pm start - certainly a first for us 
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Currently on the way home from MAN Airport after a brilliant two-week Tirol road trip.
Finished the holiday with a first-lift hour's skiing at Seefeld's Gschwandtkopf area on the way to Innsbruck Airport this morning. Small but perfectly formed for a quick blast and for parking at the chairlift for a quick getaway.
Conditions were absolutely amazing on piste - the groomers were like skiing a beautiful carpet and we had powder at the side of the runs. And there was hardly anyone else there.
The perfect end to our trip
Conditions now looking much improved in Tirol, with fresh snow all the way down to Innsbruck.
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Great stuff clarky999
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First day back on skis in almost two years (mid February 2020 in the Arlberg), a day trip to Skiwelt. In other circumstances I probably wouldnt have bothered given the forecast but the lure of actually going skiing again was too much!
It took ages to actually get to the top station as the gondola kept stopping due to the high winds, I guess 45 minutes. At the top the conditions reminded me of long ago trips to Scotland! Standing up was a bit of a challenge although visibility was good, even some sunshine. Not ideal conditions for remembering how to put one ski in front of the other  . Surprisingly the muscle memory resurfaced after a few vague skiddy efforts.
It turned out that it was only Scheffau that had got their lifts open, Ellmau was shut down, Brixen too. I discovered that the lifts on the small south facing bowls were running and in fact sheltered from the storm force winds. The pistes were in good nick and the sunny interludes were getting longer as the morning went on. There was hardly anyone else there (not surprising as they shut the gondola, no other way up) so easy to do laps of the pistes with the three running chair lifts. By early afternoon the conditions has improved less (though still strong) wind and almost continuous sunshine. More lifts opened (though Ellmau stayed closed), I didnt bother going over to Brixen, too late by that point. The pistes were surprisingly good, even when wind blown there was plenty of grip, no ice. There were some bare patches but equally there were drifts of powdery wind blown snow. Given the forecast for plenty of snow (& storms) over the next few days there should be some very good skiing when it all calms down.
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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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Brixen/Hopfgarten was reasonably open today. We went up to HochBrixen, then spent most of the day on the 21,24 and 25 lifts in Hopfgarten, which were in good nick with softening snow. We went up Filzbodenbahn (lift 7), around 12:00, and the connections onwards were shut, but it looked like they opened later in the day
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Sounds decent munich_irish and viv. And always better than not skiing of course
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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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I made a rare sortie over the border to the Nordkette yesterday & did Skiroute 6 a couple of times from the Berg to Mittel station with a mate in excellent snow. The other Skiroute (5 ?) direct under the Gondola looked lethal with exposed rocks at the steepest point..
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Poster: A snowHead
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I made a rare sortie over the border to the Nordkette yesterday & did Skiroute 6 a couple of times from the Berg to Mittel station with a mate in excellent snow. The other Skiroute (5 ?) direct under the Gondola looked lethal with exposed rocks at the steepest point..
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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..then spent the afternoon on the (world cup?) black at Patscherkofel which was quite a contrast to the deserted terrain of the Nordkette...
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@Bergsteiger278, nice! You mean Karrinne and Seilbahnrinne? The entrance to Seilbahnrinne can definitely quite quite sporty!
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| ..then spent the afternoon on the (world cup?) black at Patscherkofel which was quite a contrast to the deserted terrain of the Nordkette... |
Not sure if that run on Patsch was ever a WC slope, but that's where Franz Klammer won his famous Olympic gold!
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No idea as I've only been to the Nordkette a few times before...but Seilbahnrinne would make sense for no5 as it is the gully under the lift if so , yesterday "sporty" = "direkt zum Krankenhaus" ...I assume the Karrinne is Skiroute 6 which we skiied...great snow and very wide...
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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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Fyi I was back on the Skiroutes in Gaschurn today ...great snow, poo-poo light...
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Actually I wrote auf Englisch "scheisses Licht" ..the bowdlerism "poo poo" implies it was somehow lighthearted ...and it wasn't..
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| Bergsteiger278 wrote: |
| No idea as I've only been to the Nordkette a few times before...but Seilbahnrinne would make sense for no5 as it is the gully under the lift if so , yesterday "sporty" = "direkt zum Krankenhaus" ...I assume the Karrinne is Skiroute 6 which we skiied...great snow and very wide... |
Yep sounds like it then - Karrine is the one you then have to walk along the ridge a bit to drop in.
Neither will be rocky any more after today though!
Bet the Garfrescha lift area ('Garfreschies) over in Montafon would have been good today...
Last edited by Then you can post your own questions or snow reports... on Tue 1-02-22 17:11; edited 1 time in total
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Marvellous clarky999
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Clarky999 - it was indeed the Karrine as we had to enter via a short ridge ...no doubt Garfrescha would have been good today but they'd closed most of the ski-routes/Gelände between the Valiserabahn & Versettlabahn due to Avalanche risk...so I ended up on the Hoch Joch side instead...
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