 Poster: A snowHead
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| Goliard wrote: |
| It would appear the road is blocked in both directions. Our friends haven't had a car go past either way for half an hour. |
Any update on your friends?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Tow truck made it through and they are now six kilometres away 
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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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They made it...10 past 10. The hotel kept the restaurant open, how good is that?
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@Goliard, good to hear 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Well played all involved
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| Goliard wrote: |
| The hotel kept the restaurant open, how good is that? |
Which hotel ?? (Name and Praise..!)
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The hotel is the Col Alto. They couldn't have been more helpful. Top banana!
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| Goliard wrote: |
| They made it...10 past 10. The hotel kept the restaurant open, how good is that? |
Excellent news. Thanks for the updates
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Glad they made it safely and you can all enjoy today's fresh snow!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Plan De Gralba at 0900. Ironic that the Dolomities have finally had a big dump - Last time I went to Selva in March it was +12 degrees !!!
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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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Still another 4 weeks of the season left yet. They should be ok now.
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| Peter S wrote: |
| Still another 4 weeks of the season left yet. They should be ok now. |
I hope everyone who's there this week enjoys the new snow! Looks like there might be more to come. I think you are right to say that they've got enough now to see them through. Good!
We're going back on March 21st. I'm hoping the sun will be out by then for some proper spring skiing.
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You know it makes sense.
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Amazing day today- lovely soft snow. And it's snowing again 
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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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Got to St Christina in the snow from the UK in the little green van yesterday - very snowy over the Brenner. Fantastic snow conditions today, but vis a bit poor at times. It still keeps on snowing, half a metre at village level since we arrived.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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The Passo Campolongo between Arabba and Corvara was closed by an avalanche, according to our hotel when we arrived at 2300 last night, nearly 11 hours after landing at Venice. No problem on the journey until we got 7km from Corvara, just 1 km before the summit of the pass and met a queue of traffic. The ploughs were all stuck at the top, clearing the road for two hours. It was snowing very heavily by then - maybe 10cm an hour. By the time the ploughs got to us, one of the cheap chains on our hire car decided to break climbing out of the drift and then the repair links failed as well! Another two hours later, the ploughs had done enough that we could limp over the pass on one chain, after a shove out of the snow from the ploughman. All that snow and warm temperatures made for some heavy powder today, though!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@Stevo, gosh, what an ordeal. Glad you made it. The weather should steady during the week so hopefully some great conditions for you.
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I see all the local websites showing avi risk 4 today
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Quick report from Cortina d'Ampezzo.
Got there late Friday evening before the snowfall. Drive was fine though car rental (Locauto) was not spotless: I specifically asked 48hrs in advance for snow chains. Reply was "of course, not a problem!". At collection, winter tires were offered when they understood we were going to the mountains, but no chains. I insisted for chains given the expected snow but their snowchains could not fit winter tires (at least that’s what they said), so it was one or the other, not both! The lady at the counter was very reassuring when I told her we were on our way to Cortina ("no problem for Cortina!"). I was nonetheless pissed off when they asked for a 30€ fee for "winter equipment" (!!). Anyway, drove Friday evening without issue…
Saturday was very different and indeed pretty messy...To be fair, even cars with chains and winter tires were struggling big time (except equipped Jeep 4WD or the big Audis or Porsche Cayenne type), so I was quite easy about the whole thing...Ended up leaving the car at the bottom of my hotel’s access road and walked the last 500m...Had dinner downtown and paid the most expensive 5mn taxi ride in my life (complete ripe-off but no other choice...this private guy was actually one of the few driving while the radio-taxi service was off-duty).
On the slopes (skied Tofana only, on-piste and mellow side-piste only): well....Saturday was powder fest! Not much wind, continued snowfall and face shots in knee-deep fluffy powder… Old tracks were covered within 30mn…In summary: my best powder day this winter (out of 3 or 4 proper ones)…Clearly “one of those days…"  Overnight, it kept snowing and we heard at least two avalanches in the mountains above town, which tell the strength of this weekend snow.
Sunday AM, a short sunny window. Thigh deep snow in some places. The powder at 1,200m was getting heavy by noon (5’c at 1pm), but was still quite light at 2,000m... Leaving Cortina at 4.30pm, the drive back to Venice was under rain (sometimes quite strong), so potentially more snow in the mountain last night.
Overall, good weekend. Italian Alps delivered! I’m more used to Austria and I don’t know how/why but I feel like the snowfalls (admittedly pretty enormous) would have been handled better over there by the municipalities/taxi drivers/car rentals, etc.
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Fantastic day again today, skied Alp de Suisi. Sunshine in the morning and fairly mild, then heavy snow all afternoon, and steadily getting colder - finished down the Saslong with loads of fresh snow. There are huge amounts of snow about, just shovelled about a ton of it off of the car!
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Looks like good weather from Weds for several days too so plenty of sunshine to enjoy the new snow Not stupidly warm either.
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Skied the Sella Ronda green from Monte Pana, back to Saslong. Excellent snow conditions, htough a bit bumpy later, apart from the Saslong Red, which was a pretty scraped at the end of the day. Cold (minus 7c at 2250m at 3pm), and cloudy, lots of flat light. Hope for the sun tomorrow.
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We done the Sella Ronda also today, clockwise from Corvara. We made the mistake of not starting the route until around 10:45 as we thought that we would let the early starters go off. That meant we had a bumpy ride most of the way, but I am not complaining as that would be petty. The snow conditions were good, we had poor visibility, nothing too bad for skiing, but no views unfortunately. We will do it anti-clockwise later this week and hopefully we will get some blue skies. I have to say, all in all, this has been a good full on few days so far and I really like this place!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Today has started fine and sunny here in Val Gardena
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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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The sun is lighting up the Sella this morning. Promising a fine day to take a tour. We will be of first thing to Cinque Torri & Laguazoi runs followed by a fine lunch. BLISS🎿🎿🎿🎿
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They are having another very reliable and presumably successful season.
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You know it makes sense.
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Fantastic day around Selva and Passo Sella today, lots of sunshine and excellent snow conditions.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Awakening to a little high cloud and a bright morning . The piste bashers were working their magic all night so that the early birds will have corduroy. Very enjoyable end to our week and those coming out next week can get excited as forecast looks like great conditions are promised . Bring sunscreen 😎
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Poster: A snowHead
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I am going to Alta Badia in two weeks, hope there will be plenty of snow as it is now! Could someone tell if there is a lot of snow around the slopes? We are staying in a nice Garni from where we can ski directly to the slope, but I wonder if the snow will stay there until we arrive.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| putin wrote: |
| I am going to Alta Badia in two weeks, hope there will be plenty of snow as it is now! Could someone tell if there is a lot of snow around the slopes? We are staying in a nice Garni from where we can ski directly to the slope, but I wonder if the snow will stay there until we arrive. |
Take a look at the webcams here: http://www.altabadia.org/en/info-service/plan-your-journey/alta-badia-webcam.html
There'll be plenty of snow on the pistes. You'll be fine!
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Your English is fine! I don't think anyone can answer that specific a question though. Certainly not from two weeks out. Personally I would put it firmly in the "things I can do nothing about" bucket - and therefore stop fretting over it!
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Skied Civetta Saturday and Val di Fassa today. Pistes in excellent condition. One thing we haven't seen much sign of is "spring" snow - to be honest it was bloody cold this afternoon!
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Fantastic conditions in Corvara, Alta Badia today (Monday 14th).
Bluebird, no wind, up to boot top deep dry snow on a spongy base on the right aspects.
Cream cheese in the sun. Consistent and fast and fun though.
Skied Val Mesdi. Wonderful.
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Thanks for the updates, we're heading out March 26th... hope these conditions last
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Big snow tomorrow and Wednesday 
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Fantastic conditions today in Alta Badia - sunshine and really great pistes which held up very well in the afternoon considering this is mid March. Anyone coming out soon will have a wonderful time. If anyone is looking for après in this region, the Murin in Corvara is good - atmospheric and lots of German 'Ballerman' (cheese! ) music.
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