 Poster: A snowHead
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Never skied there but planning a day from Obergurgl at Christmas.
Please give me a route for a good fast skier to cover as much as possible in a day, everything permitting.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Allright, I did this exact thing on my one and only day there, and I keep a journal, so here are the lifts I rode, in order (I repeated some of them if I liked the run I skied): Gigijoch, Silberbrunni, Stabele, Gaislachkogl, Laugegg, Einzinger, Gletcherexpress, Schwartze Schneide, Tifenbachferner & Seiterkar. Dial up their piste map and you'll see this isn't the entire area, but a reasonably good overview. It gets you up to the glacier area, and there's a good cafeteria at Rettenbach if you're looking for quick fuel rather than a long lunch. I did this on a drive from the Arlberg to Kitzbuhel and it was really fun and worthwhile..I'll do it again sometime. If possible, try to pick a day with visibility, the skiing is almost entirely above treeline.
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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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@Scooter in Seattle, Huge thanks - so efficient - greatly appreciated ⛷⛷
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It depends hugely on the snow conditions, or it would for me. For sure you'd want to ride all the way up to the Rettenbach and also the Tiefenbachferner, and there's a ton of stuff up there with varying characteristics. As he said, it's not a place for tree skiing. Cafe-wise I think they're all basically crap, but it's Austria. They are huge cafeteria places at the bottom of each of the glaciers, but there are also one or two small places where you can find coffee and cake, albeit often with cigarette smoke thrown in for free. I heard they'd finally implemented the law on that, so it may have improved...
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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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@philwig, yep, smokers all banished to outside now, finally. The terraces can still get a bit smoky, but you’ll be fine indoors 
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