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Heading to Soll on the 11th and I am starting to get a little concerned as weather forecast looks pretty hot towards the end of the week. Any update on how the snow is holding up would be much appreciated!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Am also heading to the skiwelt on 5th feb...hope this latest dump of snow holds up well! 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Ian_S, skisoph86, SkiWelt is doing good, just got in from the pub and there's a misty layer of snowish type stuff outside! Temps are colder than predicted, and pistes are holding up well. Will keep you guys updated 
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| heidiky wrote: |
| Ian_S, skisoph86, SkiWelt is doing good, just got in from the pub and there's a misty layer of snowish type stuff outside! Temps are colder than predicted, and pistes are holding up well. Will keep you guys updated |
That's good to hear Heidi....Saturday can't come quick enough for me....!!
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Thanks for the update Heidiky!! Some more next week would be great. Can't wait to get over there now.
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yesterday in Wagrain, skied my little legs off , managed to cover 80 kms!! If you want to check your daily mileage, you can log in your skipass number in the SkiAmade region under
http://www.skiline.cc/home
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Zell: beautiful blue skies, but the pistes are becoming compacted and quite scraped. There are some pistes around the mid station which are better but high up its very slidey. Heading to the Sonnenalm side tomorrow.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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another week of sunshine seems forecast - with temps getting a little high on Suntag & Montag.
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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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RetroBod, I guess I am!! I'm based in Soll, and ski the area plus Kitzbuhel and surrounds
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You know it makes sense.
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Hey Heidi, myself and my two pals will be found each late afternoon/evening singing along to whatever the band is playing in the Salven Stadl... 
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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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heidiky, as you are pimping your services as well, maybe a donation to this site and a link to snowHeads on your web page will be a way of returning the favour? It is after all what all the other commercial posters have to do!
RetroBod, There are quite a few of us who are locally based - Espri (see above) actually lives in the middle of the All-star Pass area - and that is permanently, not just for the winter season. His knowledge of the area is second to none having been based out here for considerably longer than anyone else!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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espri, I like the Zwölfer Nordabfahrt shot - it actually shows how steep it is which is pretty uncommon with most photos! Is it still hard and icy? the last time I did it, I skied the first few metres then finished on my backside 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| Samerberg Sue wrote: |
| Zwölfer Nordabfahrt! Is it still hard and icy? |
Yesterday it was hard but not icy, not too difficult. Mind you, I was sorely tempted to take the bypass!
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We did it last week both before and after the large dumps - no problems with the run, but my legs needed a serious rest afterwards.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Going to Soll on the 12th, bit worried about the snow, any chance of a dump before then?
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duncansarmy, no. It will be sunny, you will love it
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Zell: lots of dark clouds coming in this afternoon and the wind has got up. fingers crossed it might bring some snow; the pistes coudl do with freshening up. I had a couple of scary skids today, and while I could ski through the hard pack to reach a bit of snow it's stilll unnerving. Quick trip to Kitzsteinhorn this morning; snow definitely better there.
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thanks for the updates heidiky! o well at least if its sunny all week might get a bit of a tan, cant wait to get out there! more snow pleaseee snow gods...
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No worries guys, I hope there's a bit more snow soon - I can only handle so much on-piste skiing! Where's the pow pow at!?
Samerberg Sue, I'm not really pimping myself, also pimping is a horrid term.... just trying to be helpful! Anyway, with a ski instructor salary i'll have to wait until pay day before making a donation...
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heidiky, it's called pimping here and that's what you are doing - sorry! 
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Great weather in Schladming - was there from last Friday and moved last night to Bad Gastein.
Very sunny with hardly any cloud and perfect pistes, it was cold at night warming up during the day with some temperatures on the sunny chairs showing even +6.
Great resort with lots of long, fast reds.
Sunny and warm weather again today in Bad Gastein. Schlossalm area is great, good snow and the 10km run on the back (1440 altitude difference) - just MAGIC.
Shame about the snow just above the Bad Gastein - no snowmaking and it shows - lots of brown spots everywhere.
First time in 5 days the clouds started to appear from the north. However the forecast is still rather sunny for tomorrow so we might be heading to Sportgastein
Last edited by snowHeads are a friendly bunch. on Wed 2-02-11 23:49; edited 1 time in total
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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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Tom W, Sportgastein .... wish I could go too!!! 
Are the brown spots on the piste? I'd heard it was alright. Not so good with this warm weekend predicted.
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Kersh, hmm maybe a few on the piste can be found too, on the cat tracks, hard to guess if they are officially pistes though. But it is only that part under the Stubnerkogel gondola. Definitely they should invest there as it is rather uninviting start for those first time in the area. The rest has plenty of snow.
Trying to decide now.... Sportgastein tomorrow, Dorfgastein on Friday or the other way around.......
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You know it makes sense.
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Tom W, that piste under the lower part of the Stubnerkogel Bahn has needed updating for as long as i've been going to Bad Gastein. It's effectively a road which is narrow in places. They want to cut a proper wide piste through the tres but the landowner won't let them.  Long story .....
With the current weather forecast, i'd go to Dorfgastein before it warms up. Either place is great ... and very different!
Kersh
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Samerberg Sue, Is your definition of "pimping" that a poster has a "clickable" signature?
I have looked through all posts by heidiky on this thread and cannot see anything in them to warrant an accusation of "pimping".
I would not even have considered clicking on her signature until i read your accusatory post, but you piqued my curiosity and i could not resist. Maybe you're her "pimp".
Please explain why you are right and i am wrong.
Geoff
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Poster: A snowHead
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Straying OT a bit, but I personally like the fact that people have sigs advertising stuff like this as long as it's very unobtrusive, like heidky's or Kersh's, for example. It's not in your face, it's not over-promotion. As long as it stays very small and subtle, it makes perfect sense to me. I'd be concerned if it was too "commercial"; small personal businesses, whether holiday lets or instruction, often need a helping hand. I also value the openness as its clear where any vested interest might lie.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I agree with Geoff. I haven't found anything that heidiky says as anything other than helpful information. It's clear there are others who live there year round and their posts are also very helpful but I don't think the heidiky posts are less helpful because she is only there for the season. I don't see any of her posts "selling" her services either. I only clicked on the website because I was curious and in my view there's nothing wrong with putting a website under your signature as lots of people do it so perhaps the fault lies elsewhere.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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geoffkay, freshlegs, needles, Another well-known instructor was doing exactly what you have picked up on and we lost their much more valuable considered input to the Bend the knees threads amongst others. All the people with a commercial link, be it an apartment or another service have either contributed to the site and/or provide links to it on their web pages
As far as I can make out ANYONE who has a professional link in their signature and intends to make money one way or another, it is called "pimping" here. Heidi came on here after her employers/partners Blacksheep were warned about the same thing.
As relative new contributors maybe you are not aware of the background.
I have nothing whatsoever against anyone being here, but I do feel that if the rules are applied to some people then they should be applied evenly and fairly to all. Not one rule for some with a huge list of exceptions.
They are plenty of us who live here permanently who were updating conditions and answering questions. Espri for one has an unrivalled knowledge of the area having been based here for many, many years. We have at least 4 other instructors in the area who do not feel the need to include their ski school/web page in their signatures.
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Another well-known instructor was doing exactly what you have picked up on and we lost their much more valuable considered input to the Bend the knees threads amongst others
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+1. The "rules" should be applied equally to all.
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pam w, Samerberg Sue, If there is no "pimp" content in a post i can't see what the fuss is about. Click on her link, or don't click on her link, individual choice surely? I have not seen one word in her posts regarding her business or profession, and that for me satisfies a no "pimping" clause. If a signature is allowed why on earth can it not be to a commercial web site? what harm can these signatures be to the Snowheads website?
I would be interested in your views on this. If other posters have been banned for having a commercial link in their signature i am well and truly flummoxed.
Sue,
"They are plenty of us who live here permanently who were updating conditions and answering questions. Espri for one has an unrivalled knowledge of the area having been based here for many, many years. We have at least 4 other instructors in the area who do not feel the need to include their ski school/web page in their signatures"
Has she somehow put your nose out of joint? How long does she have to live there before she is allowed to tell us what the snow is like?
Geoff
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geoffkay,
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i am well and truly flummoxed.
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And me. I didn't think heidiky was pimping.
Part, if not the whole, cause of our flummox is, however, the 'bendiness' of the rules. I know that admin favours flexibility on this sort of thing - not least because it is difficult to measure the contributions which people make to the forum - but it can lead to inconsistencies, not to mention heated arguments between people who know nothing of the facts.
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Samerberg Sue, I do believe admin said it was ok to have a professional link in your sig.
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For clarity, no one has ever been sanctioned simply for having a link in their signature.
Quite to the contrary, we would far prefer people, rather than to liberally sprinkle links through their posts (which really does come over as pimping), to place a discrete link in their sig to declare who they are and where their vested interests and specialist knowledge may lie.
We ask/encourage, those who link to their sites, to link back to snowHeads (for the good of the community as a whole). Many who do also choose to subscribe and/or pay us a commission on sales that they know to have been generated through snowHeads, however none of these things is compulsory - just hugely appreciated!
It is very important that people do post strong links to snowHeads on their sites and we have often mentioned that signature links to commercial sites may, in the future, become dependent upon reciprocal links but to date this is not so.
Gaudy, over-bearing, multiple, multi-coloured etc. links in signatures are strongly discouraged as inappropriate 'marketing'.
When asked, our guidance to commercial entities is:
"Place a discrete link in your signature to let people know who you are and what you do. Hence the more you contribute to the forum, the more people will be interested in finding out about you."
However we also serve this warning:
"Although snowHeads is a great place to improve your PR, do not be tempted to see the forum as a place to market your product. The forum community tends to respond aggressively to this as it is considered rude, as it would be were you to sit at the dinner table only joining the conversation to pimp your business to the other guests. "
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| Another well-known instructor was doing exactly what you have picked up on and we lost their much more valuable considered input to the Bend the knees threads amongst others. |
If you're referring to whom I think, then I'm afraid what you say is quite wrong however, if you are not wrong then I'd like to know to whom you are referring? Perhaps you'd PM Admin details as I would like to address them either way.
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All the people with a commercial link, be it an apartment or another service have either contributed to the site and/or provide links to it on their web pages
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As delightful a state of affairs as that would be, I'm afraid that's simply not true 
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| +1. The "rules" should be applied equally to all. |
And we try very hard to do that - when anyone steps over the line, they are asked politely to step back over it whether they are well known and 'valuable' or total noobs - some take it with more grace than others though.
I'm told by the moderators that heidiky hasn't been anything but friendly and helpful throughout the course of her 56 post long snowHeads life - after a cursory glance, I would tend to concur so frankly I'm a tad bemused as to why she has been rounded on in this way. If anyone thinks there's something critical I may have overlooked, I'd welcome enlightenment but for the moment it all seems somewhat un-snowHeadly.
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Back to talking about the snow in Austria then ...
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