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Bansko Weather!! 2014

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Hi Can anyone give any first hand evidence of the snow conditions at the moment in bansko!! How bad is it how busy?? Im going with a group of 15 at the end of the month its not looking good from the reports on various websites!! Any help advice would be great!! Cheers Pete
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I'll let you know what my parents find, they are going out this weekend and are there all week.
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My Brother returned last sat. he said all the snow is canon made but the skiing is ok. i am going this sat so will update next week
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Thats great thx both!!
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To be honest, you're better off checking on http://www.bulgariaski.com and also check the web cams and list of runs / lifts open. Doesn't look great to me.
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Yeah Pete I'd looked at this was just trying to give myself some hope!! LOL Madeye-Smiley
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Peter999 wrote:
Yeah Pete I'd looked at this was just trying to give myself some hope!! LOL Madeye-Smiley


If they're downbeat on Bulgaria Ski, you're hardly gonna get much positive spin on here!

We were in Borovets a few years ago for new year when there was no snow. From a skiing perspective it was dreadful but we had a good laugh. I think there's more snow making in BG these days so it may not be quite as bad. And there's still time for a miracle!
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Does anyone have any news on this aside from online?
Its our first ski trip was a tad worried there will be no snow Sad

I have been told that the tour operator has to take you to somewhere you can ski if there are bad conditions, is this true does anyone know?
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Em1986, that all depends on your ski operator and their T&Cs....
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Only need one piste open for them to declare the resort open, I think is the general consensus!!
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Looks like they have 4/5 runs open at the moment...
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Yeah Em1986 its well and truly open you have no chance of being taken elsewhere!! Has anybody got a live update from somebody who's either out there or just come back ! This would be very helpful!!
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4rron, any update dude!!
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Peter999, heard from my parents "we had as much skiing as our knees could take*, just not as much variety as normal".

*you can see where my knee issues come from.
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Thanks Guys! Well its my first skiing holiday so as long as I can ski on a mountain I think I will be absolutely fine as I have nothing to compare it to!

Looking back at the snow history and looks like Bansko has a pretty good snow record even compared to Andorra... must be a mild year..
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Em1986, my parents have an apartment out there and since they have had it (Dec 2008 was when we they first got in it), this year is the poorest they have experienced. When do you arrive in resort?
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We arrive in resort 1st Feb -- so still got a few weeks for it to snow...
Thanks for the update, I just so hope it gets a bit whiter!
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yep definitely loads of time. Fingers crossed for you
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We're going to Bansko 22nd Feb and also concerned about lack of snow this year.
I know it has been much better the last 2 years.

A good location to check on conditions and get other information is http://banskoblog.com/ , they also have an app for iOS and Android.
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do a twitter search for bansko - it will give you some idea of conditions on the ground. The picture quality of twitter pictures is generally more useful than webcams. It it's your first trip Em1986, you will be fine. Some of my early trips were in much worse conditions than you will have in Bansko.
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Thank you Monkey thats really reassuring, we have only been to the snow dome so I am sure that as long as we can actually ski then we will have a good time!
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Just heard "We found some powder snow today. It snow at the top yesterday. Melting by the top of the gondola"

The gondola is the main lift you go up first, you can then get lifts up from that point.
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I have just seen a picture on Crystal Ski fb page showing a big dollop of snow last night
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Thanks Guys, I am finding it hard to find any up to date weather information really.. just keeping an eye on twitter and Banskoblog for peoples posts.... Happy
It doesnt look anywhere near as I imagined.. I thought I would be skiing on grass Laughing
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Just back and it was the worst snow there for the last 9 years that I have been visiting the place at this time of year. To be fair they have done marvelous with the small amount of snow they have and the cannons have been very busy. I still managed to wear my little legs out each day and had a fantastic time around town after skiing and into the evening. There are some fantastic bars to go to with good live bands every night. After I left on Saturday morning they opened up red 4 which is one hell of a run down to Shilligarnika. Shame I missed it !

Amazingly the ski road back to town is well covered all the way down and its great fun at the end of every day.
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There is some hope:

http://banskoblog.com/2014/01/snow-report-getting-back-on-track/
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The weather forecast now looks very promising and looks like there should be some good snow by the time we get there on the 1st Feb (Fingers crossed!)

Dave could you advise were is good to go for Live Bands?
We love live music and would like to head out a few evenings (our hotel is out of the old town a little I believe!)
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Penguins is probably the best in my opinion, The Irish Harp have a great duet sometimes, there is a great guy called lizard who plays at Harrys Bar and some good tunes at Amigos. Which hotel are you going to be staying at ?
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Thank you for the info Madeye-Smiley
We are staying at the Premier Mountain Resort .. hopefully its not too far out as we would like to have a wander around in the evenings!
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All the action is downhill and round to the left from where you are staying. Easy to get to but a stagger uphill on the way back. Taxi should be about 10 lev ( £4.20 ) but it won't be unless you agree with the driver first. Snow fell there today and more forecast for the weekend. Have Fun !!
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Llew, We are also going on the 22nd of Feb so might see you there! Hopefully they will get some snow this week looking at reports. We will be the people with RomperTossers T-shirts on, say hi if you spot us.
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We will be the people with RomperTossers T-shirts on,



Bansko will be perfect for you. Madeye-Smiley
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Okay great to know, how long is the walk roughly?
May walk there and taxi back haha!

Snow is looking much better for next week so I am hoping by the time we arrive on the 2nd Feb more runs will be open .. *everything crossed!*
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This has me absolutely crushed I'm going on Sunday (26) for a week and all I can see from the reports is negativity I pray them blizzards for the next 2 days around the clock! I was told they would have great snow in the end of January by a travel agents, previous reports strongly backed this too, wish I chose the Alps again. Puzzled
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returned on the 18th after a week. sun-tuesday was blue skies and only man made snow, which was good in the morning but deteriorated in the afternoon. this also meant most of the runs were closed. it snowed wednesday on the mountain but rained in the resort. a foot of powder higher up thursday morning but they didn't open any more runs. it was due a load of snow this week. all in all i had a good weeks skiing only slightly let down by doing the same runs constantly.

The live band at the Happy End was really good and on after the lifts close and then some nights much later as well.
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Just back and it was the worst snow there for the last 9 years that I have been visiting the place at this time of year. To be fair they have done marvelous with the small amount of snow they have and the cannons have been very busy. I still managed to wear my little legs out each day and had a fantastic time around town after skiing and into the evening. There are some fantastic bars to go to with good live bands every night. After I left on Saturday morning they opened up red 4 which is one hell of a run down to Shilligarnika. Shame I missed it !

Amazingly the ski road back to town is well covered all the way down and its great fun at the end of every day.





I agree completely. the bottom half of the black tomba opened up and was not bad as a change from the standard blue run from the Shilgarnik and back up the Mosta
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This has me absolutely crushed I'm going on Sunday (26) for a week and all I can see from the reports is negativity I pray them blizzards for the next 2 days around the clock! I was told they would have great snow in the end of January by a travel agents, previous reports strongly backed this too, wish I chose the Alps again. Puzzled


I think you will be fine from the 26th. even if it hasn't improved too much a think they will have opened more runs up. if its still man made snow aim to be first on the slopes and ski until lunchtime as it get icy/packed and turned into a huge mogul field by 2pm
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4rron, any update dude!!

done
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Thanks Guys, I am finding it hard to find any up to date weather information really.. just keeping an eye on twitter and Banskoblog for peoples posts.... Happy
It doesnt look anywhere near as I imagined.. I thought I would be skiing on grass Laughing


it will be great for a first timer. the blues are all good in the am. and the ski road back to the resort is covered in snow and is almost 10km long!!!
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