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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Thanks @SaraJ!
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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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After last year's problems with the Penkenbahn I am mostly glad it is being replaced (again). But slightly nervous about being one of the guinea pigs in the first couple of weeks of the season. They are boasting about it being foolproof. Titanic anyone?
Just watched the video, new roads too. All change. Helpfully the yellow line bus will pass near the hotel I always stay in at New Year. Yay!
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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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@SaraJ, great news on the Zell base station run where is it in relation to the coaster? The Zillertal Arena is one of the best ski regions in Austria and that download was always frustrating.
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Will the new Penkenbahn lift go around the "middle station" hill with out slowing down like the old one? Only ever been on it a couple of times as we stopped in Finkenberg and found the bashing around the pylon quite un-nerving.
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ooooh, lots of fluffy white stuff 
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Hintertux got a least 30cm of snow yesterday!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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.
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@SaraJ,
Thanks.
An incredible descent on offer at Zell am Ziller - just the 6,240 vertical feet (1920m)!! And the new bottom section is a black.
On a par with the descent in Les arcs from the Aiguille Rouge to Villaroger, or Grand Montets to the valley in Argentiere.
Amazing, though could well be carnage.... 
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I forgot to mention...
I went to Hintertux last Sunday. The snow was great 
There are a couple of photos on the Alpine Freedom Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/alpinefreedom.alpenfreiheit though the photos on Hintertuxer Gletscher's own page are far better!
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You know it makes sense.
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@Bergmeister, that bottom stretch is a death trap! I have never seen such a steep slope with so little run out, it stops maybe 20m maximum from the road! Plus it is on the south-facing side of the valley.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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| freezing level very low for mid October |
Still early doors of course - but FL now well above the glacier tops for at least the next week 
Fingers crossed for my Stubai/Hintertux trip on 13th November....
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@mountainaddict, It's still freezing at night though, so it's not all bad.
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mountainaddict, sorry I was referring to the bottom of the new black run down to the valley at Zell am Ziller that SaraJ and I drove past on the 18th October! Our opinion was that it will be lethal if and when it is open as it is so steep and has little is no runout before you hit the car park/bus stops/road!
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I imagine it could be like the Kaltenbach black run to valley too. Too many inexperienced skiers trying to do a (narrow in places) black run with very heavy slush down at 600m. Ticked that one off. Not worth it at the end of the day when there are people that give up sideslipping, take off skis, and slide down 1 mogul at a time on their backside. I'd do it first thing and go back up the gondola.
Might check out the Zell am Ziller one next time I'm down there (Jan hopefully).
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@andy, it's on the opposite (sunny) side of the valley to the Kaltenbach slopes, and it is in the full sun from fairly early in the day according to SaraJ, meaning it needs a lot of snow to actually have a good surface! I think it comes down to the left (looking at it) of the Karspitzbahn, but I'm not too familiar with the Zillertal Area slopes so I'm not too certain as to which lift exactly. They've carved a path straight down through the woods to the lift bottom station.
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Yeah hard to tell from the piste map, where it looks like it comes straight down the line of the bottom half of the older lift, then traverses a bit and splits going straight down to the new (left as you look up) lift, and traverses back across to the (right as you look at it ) older lift (right thru the mini rollercoaster).
But then piste maps are never perfectly accurate. Might look for photos later.
I've never even bothered skiing down to the mid-station to offload there, and always download from the top of the gondola.
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@SaraJ, Is Alpinefreedom your blog? A bit off-topic but ended up watching the video of the monoskier, Martin, how amazing for someone to be that good a skier having suffered such severe spinal injuries!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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The forecast for general snowiness throughout the Alps came true here too. I went up to Hochfügen today with my touring skis to see how much snow had fallen. The answer - maybe 30-40cm which is being furiously topped up with snow cannon snow. Every snow cannon was running, from top to bottom - so that was a peaceful day in the mountains!
http://alpinefreedom.blogspot.co.at/2015/11/its-snowing-in-hochfugen.html
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How are conditions in mayrhofen this week?
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You know it makes sense.
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Snowed overnight about 10cms I'd say. Pistes were in good shape all last week, albeit a bit bullet proof later on in the afternoon higher up and a bit soft lower down. Had a great week.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Thanks @Ghost Dog 👍
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Poster: A snowHead
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Is the new piste/lift between Hochfuegen and Fuegen open this winter? I thought this was winter 16/17' business but they both appear on the piste map.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Cedrick, Do you mean the Panoramabahn Geols. Yes, it's open now. It should have been open in December but there wasn't enough snow. It's been open since the middle of January. I haven't skied it yet, people who have said it's a great run, though steeper than they expected. There are a couple of shuttle buses running between the gondola station and Hochfügen. I haven't been paying attention to the timing, but they seem to be frequent.
The conditions on piste are great. Off piste is a different story - I've seen avalanches fall where I've never seen them before, as well as in all the usual places.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@SaraJ, how are condition in Mayrhofen this week Sara?
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@memphis04, I haven't been to Mayrhofen for a while but the pistes in Hochfügen are great at the moment. It snowed yesterday and has been cold today so the snow has stayed in tip top condition
Off piste should be approached with caution. The avalanche danger level was 4 today.
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Thanks Sara. Will b staying on piste I reckon👍
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Been in Stumm since Saturday, just skiing at Zillertal Arena because we have a Salzburg Super Ski season pass to use and it's included. Sunday was alright, Monday and Tuesday had terrible visibility with a bit of snow but not enough to make the low vis worth it! Today was pretty good above Rosenalm earlier in the day and now it looks like the fog is finally clearing. Looking forward to tomorrow where we hopefully get a full day of sun!
Pistes have generally been brilliant down to the middle station, although maybe a little bit slushy lower on those runs. Not bothered with the new valley run as it looks like a steep slushy bump-fest with loads of people who probably shouldn't be on it (likely including me  )
So far we've not ventured much beyond the Zell am Zillertal side so the plan is to try to head to Konigsleiten and back. Is the Black 36/36a a particularly challenging one? The most likely thing to halt our progress I think.
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Assume 36 is the black to get from the Gerlos blue plateau down to the lift that goes up to Königsleiten? It's not massively challenging if the snow is good, but it is a black. I've been down harder reds, and the black bit to get down is only about half the run iirc. Wouldn't take a beginner or someone that panics at bumps, but should be fine for anyone that can persevere down a red at the end of the day that's all bumped up.
Kaltenbach was not bad at the weekend. Easy snow pretty much everywhere. Hochfügen was better, mainly because it's less busy. Kaltenbach was heaving on Sunday.
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@andy, thanks, yeah that's the one. We didn't end up making it though because the queues for those linking lifts just between Zell and Gerlos were ridiculous. I guess everyone else had the same idea
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