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| Stories going round that the Weisse Rausch won't be going down Happy Valley this year (currently closed due to avalanches) but instead heading towards Tanzboden talstation and down via Kandahar to Zammermoos and then as normal. |
They have used that route in the past.
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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?
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@stanton, Great weekend in the sun, want to do that race sometime......
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Folks.
Into the last week of the season..
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| Markymark29 wrote: |
| @stanton, Great weekend in the sun, want to do that race sometime...... |
Next year?! I've been saying for quite a while that I want to do it, just to say I've done it. Was looking at the winning times yesterday, and had I entered I'd have been second in my category with what I think I could do it in. Having said that, there was only one female snowboarder in that category and three in total!
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Rebuild of the Gampen restaurant starts in May. On the negative side, I understand Austria will increase the VAT next year.
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Private Hill
Empty slopes just locals relaxing counting the seasons millions €€€ 
Gampen Restaurant will be not be a refurb.
Its going to be Completely demolished & rebuilt.
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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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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Umbrella weather tomorrow
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Poster: A snowHead
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Sunny for the last day of the season!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Folks. Thats it for 2014/15
Round to Ischgl and then.......
Let the ski touring season begin
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@stanton, well done for maintaining this thread throughout winter.....some great posts this season.
Personally I got fed up with those in early January moaning about snow conditions, it however came good (better than good, excellent) as it always does, we had the best 3 weeks of pow in the season and the best skiing ever in St Anton, love the place. We'll be back in August for the Bike Marathon MTB race and some hut to hut walking/ scrambling, then Xmas/ New Year and beyond......Arlberg #1! 
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@Markymark29,
No matter how the official tourist office dresses it up.
This was not a great season & cetainly was not a
fantastic powder season.
Ok maybe 4M base snow on the
Valluga today but tourists cancelled at Xmas & they
been running the liifts the last two weeks like empty trains
In North Korea..
Skibums come & go (2 seasons average). They mostly
do not speak or understand Germam so therefore live in a bubble.
I probably know all there landlords
I just tell it as it is ...unbiased...
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@Markymark29, @stanton,
I only managed one week there, it was fine, not an epic season, the base was pretty thin really but if you hit it right you get powder (I hit it right on a different trip to Bavaria, fresh tracks on little ski hills that no one goes to). Some years it feels like it's none stop and you wonder if you'll ever see the sun, so it's not the end of the world to have a sunny ski week like we had. It was probably better than the previous season (not checked the stats, but that was pretty thin too). I'm sure it'll come good again of course, we had a few epic seasons not too long ago, so maybe next year? As long as the lifts are running I'm not complaining.
Thanks for the updates from everyone, especially @stanton of course.
2 seasons average for a ski bum... yep, that was me once upon a time living above what is now Pomodoro. Happy days  I've learnt German since then, but even so I never use in in St Anton because everyone speaks English so well, I honestly speak more German when I visit Italy (not as strange as it sounds if you know the Dolomites).
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2 seasons average eh, passed the 2 seasons mark a while back (as well as understanding and speaking German).
Pistes were in much better condition end of this season than last, and a greater snow depth. Shows with the Weisse Rausch, they started it lower down last season (started with the uphill run) due to lack of snow, where as this year it started from the usual spot.
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first time in st anton this year and wasn't overly impressed. Ischgl imho is far better.
get the feeling there is a lack of spending on existing infrastructure.
zurs was great fun, lech a bit pedestrian and warth was good.
that said I don't do off piste so that may be a something I'm missing out on. Ischgl is just a better all round resort and the infrastructure is certainly invested in.
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@mugen,
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| get the feeling there is a lack of spending on existing infrastructure |
What bothers you about the infrastrucure? St.Anton / the Arlberg spends an absolute fortune on new infrastructure btw.
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st christoph chairlift looks like from a different age.
then there is the lech 2 person chair just across from car park.
again just my thoughts while I was there, not based on facts just my perception.
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| mugen wrote: |
st christoph chairlift looks like from a different age.
then there is the lech 2 person chair just across from car park.
again just my thoughts while I was there, not based on facts just my perception. |
St Christoph is a pretty standard 4 seater detachable quad. Are you sure you don't mean Stuben, the slow 2 seater? There's huge new lift going in to Stuben next season (and not everyone thinks that's good news).
The 2 seater in Lech from Schlosskopf is a bit of a bore, it's incredibly slow, but it really is only for the car park so I can see why they don't want to upgrade. I think they could and should upgrade the Zug lift though.
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that 2 seater in lech is the first a day tripper will see of lech, first impressions??
like I say it was just the feeling I had of the place, nothing more. would I go back, probably not as the only trip of the year, but a 2nd or 3rd trip possibly.
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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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Definitely NOT good news about Stuben!
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@mugen,
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get the feeling there is a lack of spending on existing infrastructure
What bothers you about the infrastrucure? St.Anton / the Arlberg spends an absolute fortune on new infrastructure btw.
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Agreed, most spend on infrastructure of any ski area I've ever been to, work to do on Schindler, Albona and St Christoph for sure but the rest is awesome.
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You know it makes sense.
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| mugen wrote: |
| that 2 seater in lech is the first a day tripper will see of lech, first impressions?? |
Lech don't care about day tippers, they worry about filling their 5 * hotels with rich people. I'm not defending them, there are a a few lifts in Lech that need investment, but I wouldn't start with the Schlosskopf lift.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| Steilhang wrote: |
| Definitely NOT good news about Stuben! |
Not sure when it will open, but I think stanton said work will start this summer.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| mugen wrote: |
st christoph chairlift looks like from a different age.
then there is the lech 2 person chair just across from car park.
again just my thoughts while I was there, not based on facts just my perception. |
The chairlift you refer to in Lech is going to be replaced with a Gondola.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| sah wrote: |
| Steilhang wrote: |
| Definitely NOT good news about Stuben! |
Not sure when it will open, but I think stanton said work will start this summer. |
Zurs this summer NOT Stuben.
Your still be using the Busses next winter & probably
the next one!
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Lets get one thing straight.
Arlberg is not Ischgl & does not want to go that way!
ARLBERG prides itself on tradition & as an off piste paradise.
Long may it remain that way..
Amen
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| stanton wrote: |
Lets get one thing straight.
Arlberg is not Ischgl & does not want to go that way!
ARLBERG prides itself on tradition & as an off piste paradise.
Long may it remain that way..
Amen |
whats the percentage of off piste to only on. is that something they are aware of
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@mugen, it's hard to say how much off piste there is, it depends on how much you are prepared to hike or traverse. Put it this way, in good conditions a lot of us will ski off piste 100% of the time, only using pistes to get to the off-piste, travel between lifts or get down at the end of the day. There is good on-piste skiing if you want it (I love skiing Fang when it's hard packed and not busy) but really the attraction of the area is off-piste. Like @stanton says it's not about competing with Ischgl or anywhere else, the Arlberg has it's own attractions.
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| sah wrote: |
| @mugen, it's hard to say how much off piste there is, it depends on how much you are prepared to hike or traverse. Put it this way, in good conditions a lot of us will ski off piste 100% of the time, only using pistes to get to the off-piste, travel between lifts or get down at the end of the day. There is good on-piste skiing if you want it (I love skiing Fang when it's hard packed and not busy) but really the attraction of the area is off-piste. Like @stanton says it's not about competing with Ischgl or anywhere else, the Arlberg has it's own attractions. |
thank you for the considered response. as said I don't do off piste, not technically able and don't want to spend time learning the mountain safety aspects.
so probably a case of horses for courses, just wasn't overly impressed with the set up after reading for years how good it was.
again only my opinion.
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| mugen wrote: |
| sah wrote: |
| @mugen, it's hard to say how much off piste there is, it depends on how much you are prepared to hike or traverse. Put it this way, in good conditions a lot of us will ski off piste 100% of the time, only using pistes to get to the off-piste, travel between lifts or get down at the end of the day. There is good on-piste skiing if you want it (I love skiing Fang when it's hard packed and not busy) but really the attraction of the area is off-piste. Like @stanton says it's not about competing with Ischgl or anywhere else, the Arlberg has it's own attractions. |
thank you for the considered response. as said I don't do off piste, not technically able and don't want to spend time learning the mountain safety aspects.
so probably a case of horses for courses, just wasn't overly impressed with the set up after reading for years how good it was.
again only my opinion. |
For piste skiing I'd seriously recommend Radstadt/ Altenmarkt. The areas are small but the lift system & grooming is very impressive. Well worth a few days, maybe not a whole week. Nothing against Ischgl, in fact I'd like to go there again.
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Tuesday 28th
Snowing higher up, more snow later in the week snow freeze level 2000M
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