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| DanishRider wrote: |
| VolklAttivaS5 wrote: |
The key to not coming into contact with any groups of men is to choose one of the quiet B&Bs/hotels on the hill up by the Fimbabahn. Nice and quiet at night, I’ve not heard a sound. No leery groups saying where I am. Plus it’s only a short walk to the lift in any case.
On the main street where all the shops are and where Schatzi’s bar and the Kitzloch is I can imagine you can hear late night revellers until gone 3am.
Having been to St Anton many times as well I think St Anton is worse for groups of blokes out on the booze compared to Ischgl. |
100% agree - actually the family owned Hotel Fimba is a favorite of mine! |
Yes I’ve stayed at the Hotel Fimba before, very nice.
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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?
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@Garfield, stupid cows
Glad they were told not to come back
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@Garfield, we stayed in the less posh Val Sinestra just up the road last year, looking enviously at the Jagerhof as we walked past each morning
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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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| VolklAttivaS5 wrote: |
| DanishRider wrote: |
| VolklAttivaS5 wrote: |
The key to not coming into contact with any groups of men is to choose one of the quiet B&Bs/hotels on the hill up by the Fimbabahn. Nice and quiet at night, I’ve not heard a sound. No leery groups saying where I am. Plus it’s only a short walk to the lift in any case.
On the main street where all the shops are and where Schatzi’s bar and the Kitzloch is I can imagine you can hear late night revellers until gone 3am.
Having been to St Anton many times as well I think St Anton is worse for groups of blokes out on the booze compared to Ischgl. |
100% agree - actually the family owned Hotel Fimba is a favorite of mine! |
Yes I’ve stayed at the Hotel Fimba before, very nice. |
It’s a very nice and helpful family 
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Modern Mountain for us - Sabrina and Hugo are the perfect hosts!!! Great location, accommodation and food (breakfast is great start to the day). - a relaxing 10 Min walk from main town centre and blissfully quiet in the evenings as a result…
Could not be a better hotel in Ischgl IMHO
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Had a day off skiing yesterday, had a look around the shops etc
Off to Galtür today for a change and because there’s a restaurant that does a great mixed grill.
Definitely warmer today as forecast but it won’t last long as colder temperatures are coming in again on Wednesday.
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Beautiful day today in Galtur and Ischgl, skies Ischgl this afternoon and Galtur this morning.
This afternoon was 5C so not as warm as predicted
Really nice conditions.
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Nice fresh sunny day in Ischgl again today. Not overly warm at all, pleasant temperatures. Went up the Piz Val Gronda lift this morning as the ski route 42 has been open a few days now. Still quite a bit of untracked snow up there surprisingly.
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People may not know this but there’s actually 2 snow parks at Idalp one of which is off the B1 chair.
It’s good.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| VolklAttivaS5 wrote: |
| Nice fresh sunny day in Ischgl again today. Not overly warm at all, pleasant temperatures. Went up the Piz Val Gronda lift this morning as the ski route 42 has been open a few days now. Still quite a bit of untracked snow up there surprisingly. |
Usually not many skiing fresh snow in ischgl - This is why is why I prefer it to Stanton… Less battle for snow
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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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@DanishRider, yes I do too, loads and loads of easily accessible off piste without battling for it.
Also although there are groups of men here I think more go to St Anton ‘to say they’ve skied in St Anton’
It’s so easy to get fresh tracks here with minimal effort involved
Haven’t even had to consider getting the skins out!
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@VolklAttivaS5, have you ever gone left off the Piz Val Gondi and skied that side?
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You know it makes sense.
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@Mother hucker, ski route 42 is to the left when you get off the Piz Val Gronda though, so do you mean to the right?
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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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I thought they would have had the Alp Bella restaurant (chicken place) open by now it being Christmas week but it’s still closed!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Forgot to say I had the most delicious curry wurst at lunchtime at the Pardorama restaurant today.
Really nice!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| VolklAttivaS5 wrote: |
| I thought they would have had the Alp Bella restaurant (chicken place) open by now it being Christmas week but it’s still closed! |
I think some of the guys I normally ski Ischgl with out have headed back to the airport if they'd found out Alp Bella was closed 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| VolklAttivaS5 wrote: |
| @Mother hucker, ski route 42 is to the left when you get off the Piz Val Gronda though, so do you mean to the right? |
yep sorry to the left if you're looking back down to resort
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@Mjit, yes alas it is not open yet!
I check every day
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| Mother hucker wrote: |
| VolklAttivaS5 wrote: |
| @Mother hucker, ski route 42 is to the left when you get off the Piz Val Gronda though, so do you mean to the right? |
yep sorry to the left if you're looking back down to resort |
So is this as if you were to ski to the Heidelberger Hut and then down through the Fimbaalp valley?
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@VolklAttivaS5, yep
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@Mother hucker, ok will look at that route more closely
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@VolklAttivaS5, Its a nice area not overly steep nothing over 30* so relatively safe. you can ride out to the lift also
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@Mother hucker, will have a look tomorrow if the lift is open.
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| VolklAttivaS5 wrote: |
@DanishRider, yes I do too, loads and loads of easily accessible off piste without battling for it.
Also although there are groups of men here I think more go to St Anton ‘to say they’ve skied in St Anton’
It’s so easy to get fresh tracks here with minimal effort involved
Haven’t even had to consider getting the skins out! |
Virtuelt Nobody skis the Salaas sector - Untracked for days 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@DanishRider,
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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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Been there yesterday. Sunny, great conditions, north facing slopes still powder. Quite crowded for a pre-season week-day.
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You know it makes sense.
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Colder day today, -8C with windchill. Wind picked up a lot today although still quite mild (35 km/h).
Off piste was a bit wind scoured and crunchy today so I didn’t bother.
@Mother hucker, I can see where the route heads down to Heidelberger Hut and along the valley from the top of Piz Val Gronda, I didn’t bother as the snow wasn’t very nice.
I see you can skin up to the hut from the Gampen lift though as there’s a track that the ski doos use (the hut doesn’t open until Christmas Day though) so if I get chance before I leave I will do the skin up to the hut and ski back down. It’s only 340m ascent so won’t take long.
There are 90km/h winds forecast on Friday and Saturday so I don’t expect they will have much open if anything those 2 days.
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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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Really looking forward to it. Staying in hotel Ischgl which a friend has tole me is in a fairly quiet part of town.
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Poster: A snowHead
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@the_dazzler, when do you arrive?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| VolklAttivaS5 wrote: |
| o choose one of the quiet B&Bs/hotels on the hill up by the Fimbabahn. Nice and quiet at night, I’ve not heard a sound. |
We are looking into that very thing, never been there before, how does one get to the slopes? Bus?
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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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@mdbru, no there are elevators and tunnels with escalators within them built into the hillside, so you just go from your hotel on foot to the nearest lift access point. No need to walk up the hill back to the accommodation at all!
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The only time you’d need to use a bus is if you wanted to go to Galtur or Kappl skiing for the day.
Or if you were staying in Mathon which is outside of Ischgl
In Ischgl itself everyone uses the tunnels/lifts/escalators to get around on foot. It’s all very convenient.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@volkattivas5
Thanks very helpful!
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@mdbru, you’re most welcome
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Light snow and cloudy today, storm definitely coming in later today I think. Quite a few of the lifts closed already.
There’s about 50cm of snow or more forecast over the next couple of days though. I think tomorrow will be a good day to go to Galtur or Kappl.
Alp Bella is still closed but luckily I’ve just noticed the Paznauner Thaya restaurant are starting their chickens next week
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Absolutely belting with snow now and raining at resort level (just-will turn to snow no doubt shortly as the temperature drops)
They have closed a lot of lifts now so it’s only really around Idalp that’s open
Did a 20 min skin earlier for something to do, bit of exercise as skiing downhill doesn’t do a lot these days. Enjoyed that and good to make sure my skins were still sticky as I’d not used them for a good while.
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@VolklAttivaS5, I've never been to Ischgl and have no particular intention of going, but I'm really enjoying your reports. Thank you.
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@Hurtle, oh good 
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