Swiss national radio reported that one carriage had plunged into a ravine and another was hanging from the rails.
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?
Plunged is a bit too much, the picture show it at a steep angle but only a short distance from the rails, 5 people apparently with serious injuries and 2 with minor but no fatalities, very frightening for the people in the carriage that went down the side of the ravine and almost as frighting for those in the carriage behind that ended up hanging over the side, fortunately thats a fairly slow rail link, from memory I think it may be narrow gauge as well a high speed derailment would have had far more serious consequences
Apparently there was also a landslide in Pitztal today, parts of a road washed away near Vent (quite far up Ötztal) as the Venter Ache topped its 100 year high water level. The wave on the Inn at Silz looked more like something from the Nile, and the Wellebrucke section of the Ötz (where the Sickline kayak world champs race is held) is utterly insane - pretty sure there'll be some significant changes in the course for this year! Luckily it looks like levels are dropping off for now (at least in Ötztal and Pitztal, the Inn in Switzerland is still rising...) though.
The breaking section is a good 2-3 metres high:
Wellebrucke:
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Plunged is a bit too much, the picture show it at a steep angle but only a short distance from the rails
WOW fair play to Joe, but I bet even his rear would twich (and no doubt follow through) at the thought of tackling it now!!
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
What the Hell is going on with Alpine weather this summer . I may well have to review my standard sales line to folk who've never been:
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You can generally rely on decent spells of warm (if not hot), settled weather from May to September - it's not like the UK you know.
Bergmeister was at our apartment in Tignes last month (he thankfully managed a couple of decent, sunny ski days among the downpours) and spoke to frozen first time visitors who said they were so cheesed off by the weather that they were finished with the Alps in summer....
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.
mountainaddict, Pussies!!
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
Its been p.....g awful weather generally this summer, serves me right for always banging on about how amazing the Switz weather is in the summer
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
Swissie, aye.
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Just to show what it looks like in normal flows, here's Brit Joe Morley's winning run form the race last year
Are these pure time-trials or are there any other judging criteria? Sorry, don't know much about paddling. Impressive stuff.
Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead
dogwatch, 100% down to the times. Not the most gnarly rapids in the world (at normal flows!), but racing changes the game totally compared to normal paddling. Winning Sickline is seriously impressive, as unlike most other big races that just draw 'normal' proffessional kayakers, Sickline is filled with real slalom atheletes and olympians.
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. I may well have to review my standard sales line to folk who've never been: 
