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Mollerski, yes but Panorama has the yodelling proprietor for "local colour" 
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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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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Try a day in Alpi di Suisi, great cruising. Take bus from Selva down to Ortisei , turn left up bubble! Also Sante Croce from Canazei should be a doddle unless beginners.
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+1 for Seiseralm /Alp Di suisi . Another way of getting there is to ski down to Monte Pane and hop on the 20' Silbernagel bus to Saltria. Brings you out in a lovely area with several rustic Hütte
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+1 for Las Vegas. Shame about the non-stop music but the 360 degree views are unforgettable
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| pjd wrote: |
| +1 for Seiseralm /Alp Di suisi . Another way of getting there is to ski down to Monte Pane and hop on the 20' Silbernagel bus to Saltria. Brings you out in a lovely area with several rustic Hütte |
The bus from Monty Panasar to Alpe Di Suisi is well mad. The track is no wider than the bus with 4ft vertical snow walls either side. 
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| Mollerski wrote: |
| pjd wrote: |
| +1 for Seiseralm /Alp Di suisi . Another way of getting there is to ski down to Monte Pane and hop on the 20' Silbernagel bus to Saltria. Brings you out in a lovely area with several rustic Hütte |
The bus from Monty Panasar to Alpe Di Suisi is well mad. The track is no wider than the bus with 4ft vertical snow walls either side. |
As you know it's really bumpy and you have to put your skis in the open rack at the back or in the luggage hold. Whenever I've put them in the back I'm always pleasantly surprised that they are still there at the end of the journey and haven't been bounced out of their slots and run over by the bus coming the other way.
As you say the trip is bonkers. Thank goodness only buses are permitted to use the track.
There's a great rustic atmospheric hut just before the first bus stop at Saltria - the one before you get to the end. I think it's called the Radhütte - something like that. You go up some old wooden steps to enter it. Great food at very reasonable price run by a vey nice family.
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Thanks everybody. Less than 4 weeks now. I'm planning to print this thread off to take with me
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Freddie Paellahead, me too  Thanks for the link.
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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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Seiser Alm is very nice, but make sure there is no fog laying on it before you go there - sometimes the fog stays all day.
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1 week today, I'll be on the transfer coach from Venice to Canazei
Any other suggestions anybody?
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You know it makes sense.
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Freddie Paellahead, if you're in Canazei then taking the free bus to Alba/Pozza/Vigo di Fassa is nice. Very quiet and long runs. I think there's also night skiing at one of them but can't remember which one
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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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Well, we're back, and thanks for all the helpful advice.
Frosty the Snowman, we never made it to Santa Croce because that day, coming down the Gran Risa, some of us took the red (not me) and ended up resuscitating a Dutchman who had had a cardiac arrest on the piste causing a "slight" delay.
agw, we did a gulasch soup survey over the course of the week, and agree that Friedrich August is the best!
Hyst, we did get to the top of Seceda but didn't have enough time to go down the long red to Ortisei, however we did eat at Troier, and the view from the terrace was superb. However, the service in LasVegas was lacking, and La Tabla (about 100m away) was better.
Someone somewhere mentioned the black Cir from the top of the Dantercepes lift - agreed it was fantastic as was Sasslong, but for me the Gran Risa black was the best piste that I skied.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Freddie Paellahead, +1 for both the red and black Gran Risa runs
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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ended up resuscitating a Dutchman who had had a cardiac arrest on the piste causing a "slight" delay.
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 Wow - was the resuscitator also a medic?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Freddie Paellahead, The Dutchman was lucky you hadn't made a reservation 
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pam w, Mrs P (whom you may remember is a nurse) spotted somebody attempting to resuscitate a very dead-looking man on the slopes and shouted to two of our close friends who were skiing the red with her - a GP and a pathologist - and another in our party, a retired paediatric nurse. The four proceeded to take over the resuscitation, an Instructor called in the helicopter, the Doctor literally jumped from the helicopter onto the slope as it was too steep to land there, but by then (miraculously) they had already got his heart going again. He was loaded onto a blood wagon, semi-conscious and confused, and taken down to a flatter bit where the helicopter had managed to land and then flown off from there. Meanwhile, his wife had to ski off the slope under her own steam
The Carabinieri closed the slope for the helicopter, but idiots were still trying to ski (and board) down - they got cross! Mrs P says that her overwhelming impressions were of how dead the man looked on arrival (she's seen a few dead people in her time  ) and how much wind and snow a helicopter can throw up when hovering - she had taken her gloves off to feel for a pulse and then was doing her best to shelter his face with her hands - and got a bit of frost-nip.
There were discarded skis all over the slope after the event and they had to spend some time searching for theirs 
The odd bit was, that despite the fact that we were on parallel pistes, we never heard the helicopter till it took off with the Dutchman on board.
The wife of the Dutchman gave our GP friend her card, so he is going to e-mail her soon to find the outcome - but the man has already done better than expected in that only about 5% of people who suffer a cardiac arrest in a public place are successfully resuscitated.
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Freddie Paellahead,
Ooh, I do love a bit of specialised medical jargon. 
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Pedantica, Mrs P was quite phased by it because it seemed so out of context.
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Freddie Paellahead, I can imagine. Sorry. 
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Freddie Paellahead, he was a lucky man to have such a skilled team arriving just in time - but how awful for his wife - to ski off on her own.
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pam w, not alone, thank goodness, they had been skiing with a couple of friends.
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| pam w wrote: |
| Freddie Paellahead, he was a lucky man to have such a skilled team arriving just in time - but how awful for his wife - to ski off on her own. |
+1 on this :: a 'fortunate' man
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Freddie Paellahead, +1 Well done to all concerned and involved in the assistance.
Meanwhile, back onto news from the Sella Ronda.How was the new Dantercepies bubble working? Looked to me like the boarding area might be a bit chaotic?
On the goulash soup front, last year we found the offering at the restaurant at the very bottom of Cir to be good. Also has interesting woodcarvings inside. Not that the woodcarving has anything to do with the soup!
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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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SteveM, Dantercepies working well. 10 people per gondola with a long boarding area to allow people to get stacked. Mid-station was fairly swift too (unlike the gondola out of Arraba  )
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Subscribed. Great thread!
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