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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| Scarlet wrote: |
| I got straight into a hot bath when I got home and then put my pyjamas on. It was 5.30pm. Rock and roll |
Hard core!
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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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Kudos to you both. Good to see some honest accounts of snow conditions also, making me drool a little less.
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I'm trying to find the best way for friends to travel out in Jan. There are no direct flights from Belfast, so how good is public transport from Salzburg? It's either fly to Salzburg and train it, or 2 flights to fly into Innsbruck. Or technically I could drive to Salzburg to lift them, but... skiing.
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@Tom Doc, there are hourly express trains from Salzburg to Innsbruck. You will need to get from the airport to the train station, there is a regular shuttle bus for this purpose. The trains are comfortable but you do really need to book seats, see https://www.oebb.at/en/.
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I’ve not done it myself, but I’ve had a look on the app (VVT smartride – free transport app) and it reckons that you take a bus from Salzburg airport to the Hauptbahnhof in Salzburg and then take a direct train to Innsbruck. It takes 2h15 and goes every hour, so that sounds pretty easy to me.
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@Tom Doc, easiest/cheapest is normally fly to MUC then myFlixBus to Innsbruck
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@clarky999, great vid - are you editting them yourself? I assume you know your last vid made Morris' forecast, must be the first time I've seen content here before there!
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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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@8611, thanks! This one not - my idea and plan, filmed and edited by Ash Wiggins (another Brit living in IBK), who we use for a lot of our filming at work.
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Thanks guys, I'll check out Munich too but easyJet have return Belfast to Salzburg flights for £45 at the minute. Hard to beat that!
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You know it makes sense.
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Flixbus seems to be about 19.99EUR each way, so just depends how that compares to the train, although I think having a quick browse that also seems similar.
Does seem as though the train Salzbury to Innsbruck is quicker than Flixbus from Munich, bus times are suggesting just over 3 hours, but I guess it depends on how quickly you can get between Salzburg airport and train station, realistically looks as though it's a similar journey.
So then as you say, it comes down to the cost of the flights. I like the idea of the train over a bus personally.
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@swskier, The 2h15 I quoted above is the full journey time from Salzburg including the bus, so a bit quicker than Munich. The Flixbus also has the downside that it sits in Munich to Innsbruck traffic, which at times is not insignificant. I don't think either is particularly arduous though.
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Poster: A snowHead
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An easy decision in the end - it doesn't look like there are any direct Belfast to Munich flights, so Salzburg and train it is. If the train is only £20 ish then the return journey would only be about £85! Not incl any baggage.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Cheers for the reports @clarky999 and @Scarlet. I'm there 13th-16th December for a long weekender.
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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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@MagSeven, hello! How are you and the family? I need another of your biking adventures to keep me entertained!
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Hiya @Hurtle! We're very well thanks. We went on a family cycling tour around Lake Constance over the summer - lots of fun, but probably not worth writing a blog about! We're yet to get Felix on skis, that'll probably be next winter. We have another baby on the way, so skiing activities are curtailed this winter. I'm keeping a close eye on this thread. This Innsbruck trip is going to be my only skiing for the season so I'm hoping for good conditions!
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@MagSeven, your blogs are so good, anything's worth writing about!
Keep well and happy, all of you.
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@Scarlet, I have, but that's from the webcam 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Any good places to ski tour at the moment? Kuhtai maybe?
Had to get rid of some holiday before the end of the year (use it or lose it) so have taken next week off.
Have already done 6 days piste skiing this year so want to get the touring skis out now although I don't want to trash the skis or my knees.
Another option is St Anton as they should be getting snow this week. If there's not enough snow for offpiste skiing is skinning up the side of the piste tollerated in St Anton? If not maybe Pettnau might be a better option.
Any other good resorts where you can skin up the piste and then stop for a beer at nice mountain huts before skiing down then repeating as necessary?
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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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@DB, Loads of ski tourers at Kühtai as well as Axamer Lizum. There are plenty of just off the piste routes too. Both now have good piste coverage, but off-piste is better at Kühtai. That may have improved by next week though. Sorry, I'm not sure what the situation is at St Anton.
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@DB, was at St Anton over the weekend. I saw a good number (perhaps 20 people) going up Valgefahr either at the side of the piste or just to the side of it (the lower part of the run is much narrower than normal, I guess to make to make better use of the snow machines). I saw some people elsewhere and a good few touring tracks off piste. I spotted a couple who had just skinned up to a minor peak high above Stuben under the Flexenbahn. There were folk outside the Galzig restaurant putting on skins etc. The Schindlergratbahn opened yesterday and clearly a good few people took advantage to ski the slopes in Schindlerkar, below the Schindler couloirs etc. That said the coverage is generally thin though the forecast seems to suggest lots of snow this week.
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You know it makes sense.
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@DB, there's a bunch of fun terrain with more than enough snow for touring (and plenty of people doing it) in Kühtai, Axamer Lizum, Obergurgl, Stubai, etc. If you're on FB, you can get regular updates via this group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/skitoureninnsbruck/. Zuckerhütl, Zischgeles, Glockturm, Wildspitze, and plenty of other big peaks have all been skied the last few days.
For Axamer Lizum, see the pic above with the skin track into the Kalkkögel. That area is an absolute gem for touring, but pretty tracked atm. Drips and drabs of new snow forecast this week though: https://www.bergfex.com/axamer-lizum/wetter/berg/
But honestly I think you can go pretty much anywhere and find something cool to do!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@Scarlet, @munich_irish & @clarky999 thanks for the feedback.
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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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Snowing down to city level here (around 560m). Started around 7:45am and now a few cms have settled on the ground down here. Seems to be snowing lightly at most of the ski areas too.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Yesterday morning I skinned up the piste at Axamer Lizum. With the fresh snow, it was much grippier than last time, though we spoke to a guy who was working on the piste for the GS training that was going on at the same time and he said it was a bit soft! 
We stopped for a coffee at Hoadl and then as my friend is still a beginner on skis, skied slowly down the same blue run which was in pretty nice condition (I think they must've had a basher out after the racers had finished). Quick exchange of her skis for a snowboard, chucked the skins in the car, grabbed my helmet and back up on the lifts for a couple of runs off-piste we'd been scouting on the walk up. There was about 30cm fresh snow near the top and 15cm towards the bottom, though the trees were pretty tracked by the time we got to them.
We stayed in the area looker's left of the train where you had to watch for big rocks but the small ones were covered. The other side had some tracks but we decided it needed a bit more snow before we'd bother.
Currently snowing steadily at village level but there's only a couple of cm so far. I have to go out shortly so I'll see what it's really like.
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@clarky999, You didn't miss much on Saturday – I was out less than two hours before packing it in because of the wind. Hopefully this weekend will be a bit better.
PS. Why are you looking at onesies for small people? 
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Holy  it's windy! Föhn blowing a full-on rager today. Most lifts shut pretty much everywhere - other than Kühtai, which is almost 100% open.
Tomorrow I fly back to the UK for Christmas, but skiing looks like it should be good for anyone heading out over the holidays with around a metre of snow forecast over much of Tirol.
Ps @Scarlet, not looking at onesies for anyone of any size, just amused that anywhere stocks Moncler and Dolce & Gabbana onesies for kids!
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@clarky999, only the top lifts off in the Arlberg today
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I'm heading to Innsbruck on Saturday, flying into Salzburg. I think I read on here somewhere that the train is an easy way to get from Salzburg to Innsbruck, am I right? And if so is it worth booking in advance or does it not matter? I've been looking on oebb.at, is this the correct website?
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@Tom Doc, yes it’s an easy direct train ride. If you book in advance you can book a seat which is nice. Oebb.at is the right website.
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