 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi,
Firstly greetings and thanks for having me onboard. I'm hoping I've posted this in the correct section.
I've been boarding for about 3 months (Tamworth once a week), and just finished a short break in Obergurhl. The majority of time has been spent with my young lad on the nursery slopes, but we did tackle the mid station of Blue 6 a few times. I found this slope way beyond my capabilities, it felt like sheet ice, skidding and wasn't much fun at all. I can link turn, heel, toe edge but the wheels truly fell off on this. As a raw snowboard beginner, is this representative of what a blue slope is like?
Cheers
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Ice or very hardpack refreeze can be a nightmare on a board. Snow surface conditions are way more relevant to difficulty than grade of the slope.
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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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Thanks Dave that helps puts this into perspective:) Never even considered the snow conditions on relation to difficulty, still new to all this.
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@Gogginz,
That sounds like a tough bit of piste.
If you are linking your turns, heel to toe edge, then you are doing well for a 'raw beginner'; it will help you to avoid catching the wrong edge.
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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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I'm not sure when you were there but I was in Solden 5th-12th April and skied a couple of days in Gurgl. The pistes over there in particular were rock hard until well after lunch time due to refreeze and would have been very tricky for a beginner.
As people have said above conditions on the mountains are changeable and at the mercy of the elements. I suspect on another day in better conditions you likely would have had no issues whatsoever.
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Morning @Gogginz & welcome to snowHeads 
Having been to Obergurgl on our fourth week (ever) and a couple of times since, I can say that while it is a good resort, it isn't the most beginner-friendly place.
Partly this is the 2km starting altitude, meaning the air is already pretty cold as well as thinning; partly it's the Austrian alpine valley profiles being steeply V-shaped from the higher-level plateaus, not to mention north-facing; and lastly any given resort's approach to piste grading - many of the Obergurgl 'blues' are more 'purple' 
The upside is it is great resort for more 'advancedy' skiers - we've now been three times & had lessons there twice - the first was on the low-level stuff near town, well under our then basic-intermediate capability, the second on exactly the area you asked about - which was distinctly scary despite another year & several weeks more skiing under our boots!
Mrs.T42 swears by (& sometimes at) OpenSkiMap.org which can show you an entire resort's piste profile, but also each piste's angle of dangle.
Tell us you think about this before writing off the resort, or even your current capabilities! Run 6 - Easy downhill blue !?
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I've been to Obergurhl a few times, not really beginner friendly except one run (no idea of it's name) my wife used to do over and over whilst I went off and skied all around.
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