 Poster: A snowHead
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Just back from a very tough week with mountain guides. It had not snowed for a month and everything was totally skied out. The off-piste conditions generally were pretty brutal on very hard packed terrain. We skinned for a couple of hours but the only reward was a 5 minute descent in very soft Spring snow followed by an hour long skin out!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Off piste can be a hard this time of year, if you're lucky then spring skiing can be fantastic but it looks like it's been too cold for good firn snow but not enough fresh falling. If you are pre-booked with a guide you're a bit stuffed 
Such a shame, Engelberg is a great place!
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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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If there is one thing I've learnt in 24 years of skiing (and counting) at all times of the year it is that you never know what you are going to get. I think my worst trip is when I went on a "boys trip" after missing a year or two and skiing with the kids a year or two. Early January based in La Plagne. It was very cold, generally overcast, not a flake of fresh snow. Grim.
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| skilegs wrote: |
| Just back from a very tough week with mountain guides. It had not snowed for a month and everything was totally skied out. The off-piste conditions generally were pretty brutal on very hard packed terrain. We skinned for a couple of hours but the only reward was a 5 minute descent in very soft Spring snow followed by an hour long skin out! |
That sounds like the same trip I was on!
If it was, it was still very good in the way the guides made the best of it.
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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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| Layne wrote: |
| If there is one thing I've learnt in 24 years of skiing (and counting) at all times of the year it is that you never know what you are going to get. I think my worst trip is when I went on a "boys trip" after missing a year or two and skiing with the kids a year or two. Early January based in La Plagne. It was very cold, generally overcast, not a flake of fresh snow. Grim. |
True. Actually, in terms of probability I think late march is actually a better bet than early Jan, at least there's a chance of spring skiing in march.
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Don't think there is a right time.
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I'm a little bit sorry to report that it's snowing in Engelberg this afternoon. Looking forward to my post-Easter blast whatever the conditions.
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...and the forecast is looking good too - hoping it won't all melt before Easter. I think it depends as much on what you are expecting....
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