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Was in Alta Badia and valle di Fassa weeks of feb22- March 8. Excellent conditions am, slush and mounds after 1230 pm sfs, and same everywhere else after 2 pm. Still the most beautiful place in the world
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| Cheapski wrote: |
It looks like some weather changes this weekend, please more "from the hill" reports as we are arriving next weekend and any new snow (and reports of such) would make our pre trip anxiety somewhat ease off ... This is the first time that I rolled the dice on spring skiing in Selva/Dolomites and since this is a family trip my disappointment would quadruple  |
Arrived yesterday and looks like timed perfectly for us at least. Resort level (Armentarola) looks like it got maybe 10-12cm, so guessing more on the actual slopes.
Sure you'll be fine next week. This will be our fifth year coming mid March and it's always been excellent. 2 years ago temps were over 10 degrees, approaching 15 some days and the skiing was still good. Make the most of the mornings, then just a leisurely afternoon.
We base ourselves in Alta Badia and find the slopes hold up well, for instance San Cassiano/ Armentarola tend to only get one slushy bit about mid way point where 9A and 11 briefly meet, and even that is only about 100m, not too steep, and easily doable. The runs off the top of Pralongia (34 specifically) does start to get a bit choppy but in a fun way so usually just do few laps of that after lunch before heading home.
Anyway... That's just a long way of saying when you get here, you'll find a daily itinerary that works for you and sure you'll have a great time!
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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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30cms in Colfosco.
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| Peter S wrote: |
| 30cms in Colfosco. |
Webcams suggest it was considerably less than that.
We left yesterday morning and it was light icy snow crystals rather than flakes, and wasn't settling.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Fresh snow is nice but in Alta badia what you want are beautiful corduroy crisp groomers!!!
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Just left Colfosco this morning and I can confirm that there was substantial snowfall in the village overnight. Whether 30cm or 20 cm is hard to tell but I suspect closer to the former
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Just seen a reel from Jimmis Hutte - looks like about 30 cm up there
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Sounds like a nice dump as the season draws to a close at Easter, hope the temps stay down so it doesn’t turn to porridge.
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It was a very good dump, so good it left me stranded before Flacade on the road for 5 hours while they cleared it last night. Nightmare stuff and a very hairy journey to get to canazei this morning. Left Marco Polo at 2330 and go to canazei at 10am the next day, th longest 2.5 hour journey I’ve ever made!
Then to add insult to delay, my hotel has ballsed up my spring days voucher for my familys lessons, ski passes, hire etc. if anyone had a spare voucher going to waste, please feel free to share.
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@LeLanternVert, sorry to hear about your bad experience and I hope hotel helps in correcting spring days offers, stressful ...
On the brighter side it seems like you will have a nice snow covered mountains to look at and ski slopes in good condition to enjoy your stay.
I am interested in hearing more about drive from Venice, did you use chains? It looks like some more unsettled weather next week (temps up and down, moisture around, might come down as rain/sleet/snow ... who knows ?) and as we are to drive to Selva/Wolkenstein I am thinking using A22 vs. cutting through the mountains ... adds some 100km and time but ... Snowheads wisdom says what ?
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@Joshsnowfiend, you are right ! but in my view - this is the recipe - fresh snow on top of season long man made + natural snow, temps up and down, higher sun angle, good grooming (shout out to Dolomites crews), no crowds and some strategy and time management and you get perfect spring skiing conditions ! "Rain" is the one word you do not want to see in forecast. Sun screen is !
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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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@Cheapski, I completely disagree. Sun screen is two words.
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Sh.t ... you are right ! my bad !
SPF50 ... is that one word ?
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You know it makes sense.
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| Cheapski wrote: |
| @Joshsnowfiend, you are right ! but in my view - this is the recipe - fresh snow on top of season long man made + natural snow, temps up and down, higher sun angle, good grooming (shout out to Dolomites crews), no crowds and some strategy and time management and you get perfect spring skiing conditions ! "Rain" is the one word you do not want to see in forecast. Sun screen is ! |
Yes!!!!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Oh, forgot about ski choices ... mid winter (january/february) Dolomites special is "carving" ski - groomers ... now (spring) I am going with mid 80's, metal/heavy, spring wax, din up .5/1
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Poster: A snowHead
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Well we have been here a few days. Sunday it snowed nearly all day. Conditions were hard work with loose snow and mogul so we stayed local. What we found is ut doesn't matter how much you look at the map, none of it makes sense. Day 2 we woke up to courdory piste and glorious sun so we decided to ski to selva valley gardena for lunch. We went up the bubble called Joe and started skiing down 22 or 22a. We should have been warned when we seen people hiking back up to the gondola. Conditions were completely different, mogul and mushy and that run wa a almost vertical in parts. We side slipped down it. We gave the trip to selva a miss and went back up the chair to corvara. We might try the green route although that was so off putting, I dont know if I want to go again if we have to face anything that difficult.
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| polo99 wrote: |
| Well we have been here a few days. Sunday it snowed nearly all day. Conditions were hard work with loose snow and mogul so we stayed local. What we found is ut doesn't matter how much you look at the map, none of it makes sense. Day 2 we woke up to courdory piste and glorious sun so we decided to ski to selva valley gardena for lunch. We went up the bubble called Joe and started skiing down 22 or 22a. We should have been warned when we seen people hiking back up to the gondola. Conditions were completely different, mogul and mushy and that run wa a almost vertical in parts. We side slipped down it. We gave the trip to selva a miss and went back up the chair to corvara. We might try the green route although that was so off putting, I dont know if I want to go again if we have to face anything that difficult. |
The conditions will be better day 3 after snow. And you do have nice cold conditions.relative to thr time of year. Start early when the snow is firm. Things get moguly on the ronda as the day progresses. Aim to be done early. I think it's worth it, overall if you start early and can take your time it is a blast.
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We did start early. It was about 10. Even if it wasn't mogul, the vertical drop was hideous. I hope all the sella reds aren't like that. Please tell me that is the worst one
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I hate to be annoying but start first lifts, it's just a more pleasant experience than starting a 10 generally. I'm not 100% familiar with that particular piste, but I skied the Ronda green from colfosco a couple of weeks ago. I don't remember there being a large amount of very steep Reds. generally the skiing is very pleasant in somewhat varied the views are beautiful and the experience is worthwhile ov still start as early as possible and enjoy. Try and take your time and take a couple of breaks even for just water and coffee. It's a wonderful ski route.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Thankfully got everything sorted out with the hotel yesterday morning and got my family off to ski school on time which gave me a 3 hour window to loop the orange sella ronda with a few extra black slopes in Arabba and Val Gardena.
Slopes are great high up but once getting down towards the valley floor it’s heavy sugary snow, which is fine once you don’t go from good to bad like I did coming into Colfosco. It was like hitting treacle.
Weather is glorious, the freshen up on Sunday have helped things.
Shaping up to be another great week in the Dolomites!
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| polo99 wrote: |
| Well we have been here a few days. Sunday it snowed nearly all day. Conditions were hard work with loose snow and mogul so we stayed local. What we found is ut doesn't matter how much you look at the map, none of it makes sense. Day 2 we woke up to courdory piste and glorious sun so we decided to ski to selva valley gardena for lunch. We went up the bubble called Joe and started skiing down 22 or 22a. We should have been warned when we seen people hiking back up to the gondola. Conditions were completely different, mogul and mushy and that run wa a almost vertical in parts. We side slipped down it. We gave the trip to selva a miss and went back up the chair to corvara. We might try the green route although that was so off putting, I dont know if I want to go again if we have to face anything that difficult. |
I assume you mean gondola Boe, not sure why you would go that way to Selva though, you need Borest across to Colfosco, then Sodlisia chair, then the red/yellow Frara bubbles.
The 22 and 22A alternative are part of orange (clockwise) SR, it does catch the sun there and can get heavy and pushed about after snowfall. I would say that it's as steep as other reds around the area, but not exceptionally so. A red is a red for a reason and not marked a blue. You will need to ski similar reds to complete the SR. Hopefully once the fresh snow gets bashed down more, it will be easier.
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The reds down to Plan Gralba from Ciampinoi were the pits a couple of weeks ago in the sun after 11. Carnage. Will be worse now with new snow. Alternatively the black and red north facing Saslong slopes stayed in much better condition later. Difficult to fully avoid south facing stuff if doing the Ronda though.
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Leave early!!!!!!!!!
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22 off Boe (green ronda route) from Corvara was chopped up all week last week. it was fine, but not much fun.
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@polo99 - we were in Corvara in February, and had a lesson at the end of our first day. My brief to the instructor was that I wanted tips for how to ski better on bumpy snow. So he took us up to the top of Boe, and down 22/22a. He said that was the worst you'll encounter on the SR in terms of lumpy snow (in conjunction with a relatively steep gradient, and narrow slope). And I think he's probably right - having been round the SR 6 times in total, I don't remember coming across anything worse. So if you can do that, then you'd be alright anywhere else on the SR. I'd say off the top of Ciampinoi is probably the next worst - just due to all the traffic in that area.
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@WoottonBecs, That drop off Ciampinoi is, in my opinion, the worst !! (I always avoid it now, and take the alternative..)
Webcams showing -6 on top of Seceda just now...! (only a few peeps there............)
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Red off the Ciampinoi is the hardest part of the Green Ronde by a mile - south facing, cutting up by 9.30 and big bumps by 10.30 when it's warm. It really is far harder than any of the blacks around the ronde.
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Red 22/A down from Boe is horrible at the wrong time of year. Especially as I was staying in Arabba and it's very often one of the last runs back at the end of a tiring day....you can avoid it if you have time and go to Arabba via the Cherz lifts and pistes across the valley
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You know it makes sense.
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| JDL65 wrote: |
| Red off the Ciampinoi is the hardest part of the Green Ronde by a mile - south facing, cutting up by 9.30 and big bumps by 10.30 when it's warm. It really is far harder than any of the blacks around the ronde. |
@JDL65 - are you aware of the alternative??
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| albob wrote: |
| JDL65 wrote: |
| Red off the Ciampinoi is the hardest part of the Green Ronde by a mile - south facing, cutting up by 9.30 and big bumps by 10.30 when it's warm. It really is far harder than any of the blacks around the ronde. |
@JDL65 - are you aware of the alternative?? |
Yes, around the other side of the lift station. On Friday morning, by just fter 10 am it was also bumpy and it's narrow in places - not ideal for intermediates either.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| albob wrote: |
@JDL65 - are you aware of the alternative?? |
Catch the bus to Plan, or go earlier in the year.
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It doesn't bother me, as I can morev than cope with those conditions, but neither route is much fun for an intermediate, and no way should the main route be labelled red when it is harder than all the blacks around the ronde.
Who wants to catch a bus between areas anyway? I'll go to London if I want to catch a bus!
(Our friends did drive to Plan Gralba on the last day btw).
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| Mollerski wrote: |
| albob wrote: |
@JDL65 - are you aware of the alternative?? |
Catch the bus to Plan, or go earlier in the year. |
To be fair, we were there 3rd week of January and both of the options for the reds off the top of Ciampanoi to Plan were generally vile anytime after 10:30, and by mid afternoon horrendous.
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| JDL65 wrote: |
| albob wrote: |
| JDL65 wrote: |
| Red off the Ciampinoi is the hardest part of the Green Ronde by a mile - south facing, cutting up by 9.30 and big bumps by 10.30 when it's warm. It really is far harder than any of the blacks around the ronde. |
@JDL65 - are you aware of the alternative?? |
Yes, around the other side of the lift station. On Friday morning, by just fter 10 am it was also bumpy and it's narrow in places - not ideal for intermediates either. |
Agree -- it is not much better, but I prefer it to what one of my pals described as 'a wall' !
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| JDL65 wrote: |
It doesn't bother me, as I can morev than cope with those conditions, but neither route is much fun for an intermediate, and no way should the main route be labelled red when it is harder than all the blacks around the ronde.
Who wants to catch a bus between areas anyway? I'll go to London if I want to catch a bus!
(Our friends did drive to Plan Gralba on the last day btw). |
Grow a pair or go elsewhere. Clearly Selva is too 'extreme' for you and your bunch of melts. Look at Passo Tonale.
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Not sure it's dolomites but heading to passo tonale 27-03 to 05-04. Primarily for kids lessons but will also try to ski a fair bit myself. Considering a day trip to pejo3000, and or folgarida marilleva too. The runs in Temu and ponte di legno look interesting but not sure if they'll be open still then
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@Lost in the trees, as a friend of mine says, "Passo Tonale is the Lecht but in Italy not Scotland". I've never been to it because...
I hope you have a great time and rise above my negativity. I'm sure it's perfect for the kids. Also, I have nothing against the Lecht 
PS. Passo Tonale is not in the Dolomites, being about 100km by road to the west of Bolzano/Bolzen, which is at the western extreme of the Dolomites.
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@Lost in the trees, Folgarida is linked in to the Madonna area and I was there a few weeks ago.Has some nice runs in Folgarida itself and also neighbouring Marilleva and Mastelina and then of course the larger area of Madonna. Not sure what it will be like late March/early April though as it is not particularly high. When we were there the link to Madonna was always a very big queue
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| DCG wrote: |
| @Lost in the trees, Folgarida is linked in to the Madonna area and I was there a few weeks ago.Has some nice runs in Folgarida itself and also neighbouring Marilleva and Mastelina and then of course the larger area of Madonna. Not sure what it will be like late March/early April though as it is not particularly high. When we were there the link to Madonna was always a very big queue |
@dcg was looking at driving and hopefully parking at or near the funivie folgarida marilleva gondola. Going up to the family park bit with 4yo who can ski greens. Easy blues. Is that a busy lift?
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