It may be late season but the non stop poor weather is still bringing a lot of fresh snow at altitude to the Alps. There was a fatal avalanche in Saas Fee on Sunday on the Hohbalmgletscher at 4100 meters. A skier was buried by a large slide. Members of the skier's group along with eyewitnesses recovered the skier but it was too late. Victim was local to the area, aged 23.
Altausee / Loser has opened again after huge snowfalls. Some great photos in this thread. Particularly like the one where you van just see the restaurant but what a stunning set of photos
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
Frosty the Snowman wrote:
Altausee / Loser has opened again after huge snowfalls. Some great photos in this thread. Particularly like the one where you van just see the restaurant but what a stunning set of photos
Thanks for posting. Slope looks fairly innocuous. Worrying that a group should have got caught in such a way.
Interesting also that one airbag wasn't deployed and another failed to deploy.
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.
@jbob, Cheers for posting. I see the VDA report is available for last season but I've not worked out the link yet.
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
Not sure if this is the correct place to post this, and probably many of you already know it anyway but it may be of interest to other piste-only skiers....
As we know some of the "locals" do not exactly think about security hence the big push by CAF down in this part of the world last season after the tragedies of the early 2015/2016 season down here.
The great majority of victims are experienced skiers or ski tourers, local to the mountains, including guides and ski instructors.
I skied with a guy from Flaine yesterday who told me around 35% of the avalanche incidents in that area involve very experienced people, in particular mountain rescue workers out in their free time. I don't know how true that is, but it makes sense that they're the sort most likely to be 'pushing it'.
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The Bergrettung here are pushing out a big campaign to always call in (140) if you set off an avalanche. You won't be in trouble; rather, you'll save the Bergrettung the expense of sending out a team to check that no-one is buried.
It should be noted that mountain rescue efforts in Austria are NOT covered by the state, so anyone skiing or hiking in the Austrian Alps should make sure they are insured in the event anything happens.
I've always used the Alpenverein in the past for this, but I've just found out that the Bergrettung have their own insurance policy too. €28/year = up to €25k rescue costs anywhere in the world, and the money goes to the Bergrettung to finance training etc.
At least 23 rescue workers have been killed on a mountain road in eastern Turkey after they were hit by an avalanche while searching for two people missing in an earlier snowslide.
Authorities said 300 emergency service workers were called to the road near the mountain-surrounded town of Bahçesaray in Van province, which borders Iran, after the first avalanche struck late on Tuesday, killing five people. Around midday on Wednesday, the team was struck by the second avalanche.
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
Could this thread be "unstickied" please?
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
@sugarmoma666, done. I'll have a quick scan to see if antyhing else need changing
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