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Avalanche warnings in Austria
Continuing heavy snow fall in Austria's Alpine regions has raised the risk of avalanches and prompted urgent safety warnings to hikers and skiers to avoid the areas deemed most prone to snow slides.
Strong winds and snow fall of up to 120 centimeters (47 inches) in sections of Styria, a mountainous province in southern Austria near the border with Slovenia, put the avalanche risk there at four on a five-point scale on which five is the most dangerous stage, according to the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics in Vienna.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Surprized it's only Styria and not Salzburg or western "Upper Austria" too calling the avalanche warnings.
Most of the snow seems to have fallen on the Upper Austria / Styrian border (just east of Salzburg)
The resorts at the top of this list are in middle Austria around Salzburg
http://www.bergfex.at/austria/schneewerte/?sortBy=Berg
Ski Amade doesn't have the best of snow records (e.g. when compared to Tyrol) but if I wasn't already booked up to visit another resort with over 200 cm I'd be thinking about giving it a try at Xmas.
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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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Ski Amade doesn't have the best of snow records (e.g. when compared to Tyrol)
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Are you sure? I don't have the figures, but having skied quite a few times at the Gasteins, Dienten, Zauchensee etc and always had great snow, maybe not up there with Lech & St Anton, but I'd be surprised if they weren't a better bet than Soll, Westendorf, Alpbach etc?
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Ski Amade doesn't have the best of snow records (e.g. when compared to Tyrol)
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Are you sure? I don't have the figures, but having skied quite a few times at the Gasteins, Dienten, Zauchensee etc and always had great snow, maybe not up there with Lech & St Anton, but I'd be surprised if they weren't a better bet than Soll, Westendorf, Alpbach etc? |
I skied Ski Amade in March 2000 and the conditions were pretty bad (it was unusually warm).
We agree - Ski Amade can't compare to places like St Anton, Lech, Obergurgl etc for snow reliability. i.e. I wouldn't put it up there with the best/most reliable Austrian resorts. But I'd agree it's more reliable than the other places you mentioned. I was just making it aware to other snowheads who were thinking about a last minute booking that Ski Amade has very good conditions at the moment (even better than Tyrol which is not normal).
Follow the snow ......
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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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.... or follow the money, when there's no snow.
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Back from Ski Amade (Flachau, Zauchensee, Wagrain etc).
Five days, (Dec 8-12) always sunny, best skiing in my life.
We wanted to go to Tyrol, but the poor snow condition and the small number of open pistes made us change our mind.
Flachau area was the perfect choice. Over 120 cm powder in the brightest sunshine.
No draglifts, no queue at the lifts, ... I want to go back.
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hibernia, we're off to Bad Gastein on New Year's Eve for a week. I was also a bit worried about going so early in the season but not now! More snow is forecast for the next few days also. The Sportgastein area has about 140 cm at the top according to the Bad Gastein web site.
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kerekip, where did you stay?
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