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Hi All. Had a right palaver getting out here with a cancelled easyjet flight... anyhow, made it at last.
Snow ok on Sun above 1400m, 6 inches fresh powder Mon morning and we were only ones on it for half an hour - bliss.
Nightmare this morning. Absolute frozen solid pistes. Had to resort to early hot choc & rum to let pistes soften. Didn't really work. High wind shut lifts too, stopping us getting to other bits. Glacier tomorrow in desperation... 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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carled, hope things improve for you
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carled, I'd be interested to hear how you get on on the glacier. I am thinking of driving down there on Thursday. Cheers. Mike
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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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Just back from glacier... as Stewart said, an... interesting ride indeed. But as there was something approaching half a foot of fresh powder on the slopes and about 2ft of fresh-ish if you went a bit further off-piste. We found that by cutting over from a t-bar we had access to an unpisted red run with loads of soft, dry fresh powder on it... absolutely blissful for a couple of hours before visibility deteriorated too far.
So, Mike Lawrie, go for it. Weather conditions are meant to be a bit dubious tomorrow though! We'll probably be back up there tomorrow anyway.
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carled, sounds good. It's going to be Friday now. Weather forecast for tomorrow is for more snow turning sunny in the afternoon. and Friday is sunny, so hard decision I don't think.
Have Fun.
Mike.
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Lucked out again. Nasty-looking weather this morning kept people away from the Zugspitze. We braved it and the conditions cleared up. Very cold, high windchill, but it had snowed again a half foot or so last night, so fresh dry powder everywhere all day and hardly anyone up there but us to enjoy it! Hurrah! 
Not sure what to do tomorrow. Clear night tonight, so little chance of anything other than all-round icy conditions, methinks...
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Went up the Zugspitze for a few hours today. Unbelievable weather. The view from the top is just fantastic. Managed to lay down some ( lots of ) tracks, but I guess you got the best of it yesterday. Considering that they usually have at least one meter more snow at this time of year I was surprised at how good the off piste was. It's really a nice little area as long as you stay away from it at the weekends. The other resorts round the back of the Zugspitze at Ehrwald, Lermoos and Biberwier are worth a visit as well.
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Cheers for the info Mike. We were up there on the Friday again and also still finding fresh tracks (most of them to the left of the Weisses Tal t-bar, dropping over the edge into the bowl that leads down to the wetterwandecklifte 1& 2 t-bars. Bit of a hike back out at the end, but glorious powder even after lunch on Friday if you traversed a bit!)
Powder definitely best on the Weds, still good on Thursday but hard to find on Friday. Loved the Zugspitze area, but my, did it get busy on the Friday! Wouldn't have liked to see it much busier than that and I bet it gets mental at peak times... Classic area of Garmisch needs largely bulldozing and starting again (apart from the excellent Kandahar). The Hausberg 6-seater is a good lift, but once conditions deteriorate, it gets too busy. Alpspitze also has a couple of interesting runs, but I can't believe that to get there from Kreuzeck you have to go right down to the valley (on cable car in these conditions) then back up the cable car to that area! A link back, but no lift into it.
Our apartment owner said it was the worst conditions she's ever seen in her whole life in Garmisch for this time of year... great timing by my group once more... She also said they are trying to radically overhaul the area in time for the 2011 world cup, as long as the green party stopped interfering with all their plans!
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