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The snow has been pretty sparse this season and while the recent snowfall helped, I'm sure coverage remains very thin off-piste. Any of you veterans care to guess what the chances are of a good ski down Val Mesdi in mid-March? Thanks in advance!
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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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@Mike Pow, I love his book. Thanks!
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The Val Mesdi is currently full of huge rocks and you would need to take off your skis in some places (eg the steep bit at the end to get out of it). Not sure if the steep bit at the start has any snow. Unless they get a big fall I'd say there will be almost nothing to ski off piste as the narrow couloirs are so rocky. Enormous rock-hard sastrugi off piste on the top half of the Marmolada Glacier. We had to transfer with our guide to Austria.
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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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@snowball, thanks for the update. I figured as much. I'll be in the Dolomites in a little over a week. Looks like on-piste it is.
Where did you go in Austria and how was it?
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Hintertux and it was epic 
I'm sure you could ski some of the steeper lines in spring snow conditions; other than the almost total lack of snow, the other issue we had on the day we skied off piste was the low temperature and hence snow hardness. You wouldn't want to be taking a fall anywhere remotely steep...
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@snowball and I were on the same trip, in case it seems weird me posting out of nowhere!
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