 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Sad news.
At a guess, maybe in that section of 31 that enters the forest on the skier’s left of Fang. Regardless, that section can be diabolical at times. Intermediates use it to bypass Fang, thinking it will be easier, but it is often glazed ice.
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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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| Markymark29 wrote: |
Fatal accident yesterday 14.00 on piste, 47 year old German skier killed when he hit a tree on a blue piste on Fang area:-
Zu einem Skiunfall mit tödlichem Ausgang kam es am Donnerstag gegen 14 Uhr im Skigebiet von St. Anton am Arlberg.
Laut Polizei fuhr ein 47-jähriger Deutscher mit seinen Skiern auf der blauen Piste Nr. 31 talwärts und stürzte auf einer leichten Linkskurve aus derzeit nicht geklärter Ursache über den talseitigen Pistenrand hinaus. Er prallte gegen einen Baum und zog sich tödliche Verletzungen zu. Die Erhebungen zum Unfallhergang laufen noch. Bisher ist noch nicht bekannt, ob es Zeugen des Unfalls gibt. (TT.com) |
It does seem a bit strange, given the mild weather sheet ice would be unlikely mid afternoon even in an area shaded by trees. I suppose it shows that blue pistes are not necessarily easier places to ski than black ones (that piste is now shown as closed but Fang is still open). I guess you dont have to be going very fast to sustain serious injuries if you crash into a large solid object like a tree.
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Most Tree Fatalities are very hard body (not head) impacts causing instant non reversal internal injurys ....
This also applies on with fatal human Piste collisions....
Heads(Helmets) are rarely involved ..
Its the main upper body ,hips legs etc followed by shock trauma..death
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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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Trees are pretty much the hardest living organisms on Earth.
Trees kill car drivers at >30mph and skiers >10mph.
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Closing day was pretty great today! Slopes were EMPTY, probably less than 20 people on the whole St Anton side of the hill. Around 20cms of fresh snow at mid mountain, no competition fresh turns at the sides of the piste, lovely slush/firn lower down, some funky chopped up bumpy 'training' crud on Kandahar. Left around 2pm, at which point it was snowing to the base. If only the Arlberg could be like that/that empty all the time!
Still 358cm base at the top and a good 2m at mid mountain, so touring should be good for a long while.
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@clarky999, I had a look at the cameras earlier, it seemed very odd, powder on the pistes and no one there. It was a shame I couldnt be there 
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@clarky999, A bit annoying that it's shut now I was asleep till 11.30am after yesterday's drive, so wouldn't have been much use today, but I could've gone tomorrow. Ischgl still open though?
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@Scarlet, Ischgl open 'til the 1st I believe
@munich_irish, yeah, I guess the bad vis put a lot of people off - probably thought you'd have to go too high to see to get good snow
One photo from today:
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Ok Folks ....
Thats it
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Bulldozers start tomorrow
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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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Never Ending Season.. Winter is just getting going, POW end of this week !
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You know it makes sense.
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@stanton, who cares....it’s over (as you well know)  ....or post a photo from your touring days maybe?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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The moutains boys have certainly made it easier to hike up this weekend..clearing the cat tracks up 
Much deeper snopak than many previous seasons ..they have the Big Dozers out
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Poster: A snowHead
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It was fantastic 5th May
Virgin POW morning Galzig to Town
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Bizarrely it is due to snow this weekend, perhaps even down to village level on Sunday, this time last year there was a heatwave. Its not just the high Alpine either, was in Tegernsee yesterday and there was still lots of snow on the local hills. At this rate there will be lying snow well into July, snow shoes could be very useful on the walk between the Stuttgarter and Ulmer huts.
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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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Another late season storm this weekend +30cms expected at elevation ..Snow down to town...
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Endless Winter....
Another night of snow......down to the valley this morning...
Im not sure if this years Snopak will all melt...
Construction Schindler Gondola will need to be completed in record speed .
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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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In Lech all valley runs would still be skiable...
And municipality has announced they'll keep on grooming the nordic tracks from village into the Zugertal....
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Amazing winter... And spring...
Will return next January, but now I feel compelled to start touring for next season.
Any practical local advices re: guides/beginners groups?
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@Langerzug, wow.....Wücher heli up Mehlsack?!
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Hey Folks it is May 16th !!
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@stanton, I saw that earlier, somewhat strange. It snowed very briefly here just to the east of Munich on Tuesday evening. At first I thought it was hailstones but it was actually wet snow. Mountain snow into May is not unusual but the amount of lying snow is, I suspect there will be much more snow remaining through the summer than is "normal".
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