 Poster: A snowHead
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first snow of the season in St.Anton today..... but it was all gone by lunchtime!! New Rendlbahn is coming on great guns and will be a big improvement. Taps is also being expending - much bigger bar & restaurant over two floors for the coming season....
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Hey, Stanton.... are you resident in St.Anton the whole year or just for the winter fun.....
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stanton, already booked matey...£5.00 each way...cheap air travel is dead!! Long live the king.... 
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| northantsred wrote: |
| stanton, already booked matey...£5.00 each way...cheap air travel is dead!! Long live the king.... |
Hallo MATE . Just bizarre that folk are booking now.in the summer .. Never heard of this ....?
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stanton, great ariel shots. Was at Hampden Park the other night to watch Scotland v Holland. Your fans are the best and most colourful fans I've seen at Hampden in over 30 years of watching Scotland. Great night apart from result - ears were still ringing yesterday
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Sad indeed.
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You know it makes sense.
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Does the muggengrat need to be replaced by a 6 person chair ?
It seems to me to be a fairly short lift that only really provdes access to that fabulous run back into Zurs. Its not really a key link. Making it faster and giving it a much higher capacity would not seem to offer much benefit and will only make the run more congested. Does it really get big queues at high season ? i've only been there in March when it isn't at all busy.
I'm not sure that constant upgarding of every lift to high capcity chairs is really that productive and i'm certain is doesn't improve the actual skiing.
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| Peter S wrote: |
| Does the muggengrat need to be replaced by a 6 person chair ? |
I think it had to be rebuilt because of seismic ground movements, so I guess its just as cheap to construct & a new system.
In Zurs The Madlochbahn will be next to be replaced which often gets large lines in Peak periods.
Last edited by Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name: on Tue 29-09-09 8:01; edited 1 time in total
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Poster: A snowHead
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That makes sense.
thanks.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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News about the connecting of St. Anton (Rendl)- Kappl
Project "Dias Rendl"
http://www.meinbezirk.at/Landeck/bez_107/channel_1-1-8/chsid_1/uid_4656/id_533755
They want to implement the project as quick as possible.
The project is now ready for submission, The talks are preliminary (first have already taken place) between the two lift (Arlberg & Kappl) companies.
They are only waiting for the landowners (Pettneu) approval which they must obtain in advance in order to submit the project .
Also EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment,) Procedures could be a procedural delay by one year
To connect three lifts , two gondolas and a 6-KSB, along a total length of 7 km.
The funding of € 20 million project is also approved 2/3 the Arlbergbahn the remaining 1/3 Kappl Railways.
For St Anton it will mean they can boast an extra 50km of pistes.
Last edited by Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person on Mon 12-10-09 17:51; edited 2 times in total
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This will be great I think! I hope they will update some of the old chairs on the Rendl as well.
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| Tom W wrote: |
| This will be great I think! I hope they will update some of the old chairs on the Rendl as well. |
I think your find Riffl 2 & possibly Riffl 1 will be removed, they have not mentioned that yet 
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| stanton wrote: |
| Tom W wrote: |
| This will be great I think! I hope they will update some of the old chairs on the Rendl as well. |
I think your find Riffl 2 & possibly Riffl 1 will be removed, they have not mentioned that yet |
Removed !!! or do you mean replaced?
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Will the connection be skiable or merely for access ?
Will it make skiing in Ischgl possible for the day without a car from St A ?
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| Peter S wrote: |
Will the connection be skiable or merely for access ?[/quote¨] Many Kilometres of skiing.
Will it make skiing in Ischgl possible for the day without a car from St A ? |
By Bus or Taxi from Kappl Base.
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I never made it here when I was in St Anton - what are the runs/area like?
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Pettneu am Arlberg
2 Black Runs (3km)
2 Red Runs (4km)
4 Blue Runs (8km)
15km Downhill Pistes
22km Cross Country Trails
4 Ski Lifts
810m Max Vertical
2040m Highest Lift
1230m Lowest Piste
1230m Resort Altitude
2km of ski runs possible Artificial snow.
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Thank you very much indeed for that link. It all looks as though it was rather nicer then - development has spoiled. I have learned of an area which at the moment is largely undiscovered - and will be trying it out in January. I have a feeling that if it works out, I will not be posting about it.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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stanton, What an excellent link. I bought some old posters of Lech etc from tourist office, including one of Hannes Schneider and chums. PM me and I'll email you the PDF - tourist office no longer offer them
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You know it makes sense.
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| achilles wrote: |
Thank you very much indeed for that link. It all looks as though it was rather nicer then |
Give me heated chair lifts any day of the week
Love the photo of zug on the 1st page - how completely different to current day..
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The bowl (Malfon Valley, Hintergebirg, see photo) trough which the envisaged link Rendl-Kapell will be built is really awesome ski terrain. Today there are some nice off-piste runs (you need at least 30-40 min hike to access the area via the Rendlscharte) in this area going down to Pettneu. From Kappl you even do not need a real hike, but of course you end up in a different valley with a complex (or expensive) return journey to the Paznaun Valley.
Actually, I think it is almost a pity to build a lift linkage through this bowl. It was easy to find fresh powder there even days after the last snow fall. The mandatory hike guaranteed that the area was not tracked out so quick.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| RandyAlp wrote: |
| I think it is almost a pity to build a lift linkage through this bowl. |
I hear you
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I loved Rendl! It was where we went for our first afternoon on arriving to get our legs back! Chocolate+Amaretto in the beach bar - good times! BUt that bubble lift was horrible!!!
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Snow October 12th.
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It is snowing and staying all the way down to the village, it will of course melt as soon as the sun comes out but each year it is weird to go to bed in the summer and wake up to winter in the morning!! On the link to Kappl I have heard that all the famers except for one have now agreed - I guess the last one will be hoping for quite a nice payout for his signature ha!
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sidneyreilly, you have just made my day!
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FAQ
. This will mean folks skiing the Powder off Route 5 will have to descend all the way to the Valley to get back up.
. I thought that upgrading the Rendl area was a bad idea in general. I loved the comparatively low "competition" there. Everybody seems to go to the Valluga area. I fear the new Rendl gondola will change things significantly this winter. I hear the Stuben area will get upgraded soon as well. This will have a negative impact as well 
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