 Poster: A snowHead
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New season time!
Stubai has been open for a few weeks now, but since the very early dumps, which melted everywhere else, the weather has been fairly warm and sunny. I knew we'd be scratching around in the crowds on glacier ice, so we haven't been up there yet.
Then last week, it snowed quite a lot, just in time for Axamer Lizum's opening on Saturday. And almost unknown for opening day, they even managed to get the lift running 
Unfortunately, only the red side was open. It was pretty crunchy to start with, but started to soften after an hour or so in the sun. The temperature was on the chilly side.
After a few variations of the red run, we did something absolutely verboten in these parts: we skied past the fence and down the closed blue run  Who knows what dangers may have faced us: an active volcano could've sprung up in the night, literally anything could've happened. But it didn't. Fresh snow was about 20cm, but obviously no base yet, so there were a few rocks and lots of dips and holes that are normally smoothed out by the bashers. 70mm piste skis weren't exactly ideal either, but everybody remained upright (apart from the snowboarder, but she didn't seem to care!). The snow was soft and the sun was out 
BTW, I uploaded my images to a new host to hopefully get around the UK ban on other providers. Let me know if you can't see them.
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Fri 28-11-25 16:45; edited 1 time in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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This week, it continued to snow down to the valley until Thursday morning. Unfortunately, the week has been somewhat overshadowed by a huge avalanche at Stubai, where 8 people ended up buried (all okay, thankfully), but there was still a massive operation to check the debris in case anyone else was in there, and that involved about 250 people. It has been windy and there is a weak layer in the snowpack.
Some pictures in the news: https://tirol.orf.at/stories/3331746/
I believe it happened in the rock band to the left of the Daunscharte drag lift, which is visible in some of the photos. The piste between the lift and the avalanche is red piste no.9.
Instagram reel so I don't know how long it will be there, footage of avalanche: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DRkfba6jEiY/
The daily avalanche report starts tonight: https://avalanche.report/bulletin/latest
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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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