 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi everyone
A group of us are heading to wengen 9 march.
Can anyone tell us wether there is a chance of snow in the village? Also we are staying at the bernerhof hotel. Can you ski reasonably close back to this hotel?
Cheers all, hope you are enjoying the snow. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Claire277, In recent years snow in early March has been good, but that's no certainty
Bernerhof is at the far end of the high street, by skiing back over the nursery slopes you can get to roughly the middle of the high street if you get a bit of speed up coming down the slopes, or about 100M from the hotel front door hope that's close enough for you, you are also about the same distance from the Mannlichen cable car and maybe 250m from the railway station so all are only a short (level) walk down the quiet road
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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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Claire277, I skied all the way back to the village in late March last year.
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Thanks so much for the info. Can't wait now.wish I could go more than once a year. 
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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 feel I ought to add the following
In order to be able to ski as close as you can to the high street, you need to get a good run down from the top of the nursery slopes and take the narrow corner by the ice rink as fast as possible, now there's a slight uphill incline from the bottom of the slopes to that corner and then it goes nearly flat with a very very slight drop to the back of Central Sport, so long as you have a bit of momentum going as you go around the corner you should be able to get the rest of the way (maybe with a skating step or two) depending on the snow.
Now be aware that the corner by the ice rink can get pretty busy with people coming and going in both directions especially at the end of the day and they may be on foot, on skis or even on sleds
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You can't take the corner quickly any more - they've put a chicane thingy at the corner of the ice rink to prevent people hurrying to catch the Mannlichenbahn. It's a pain.
Claire277, I'm also going out on the 9th. We go in March every year and the snow will be fine. Last March our biggest problem was too much snow!
Skiing past the Hotel Brunner in a snowstorm, March 19th 2012:
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telford_mike, damn !
can you still ski back to the Caprice/Station? because if you can that might be just as easy rather than walking across the baby slopes
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Yes you can still get to the Caprice. Nursery slope still the best way back to the Bernerhof though, particularly as some of the group might well have rented equipment from Central Sport and will want to drop it off there each day.
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Wengen is a long way up the mountain on a cog railway - nearly 300 metres higher than Grindelwald which shares the same skiing. It would be strange if there were not snow there in early March - on average the deepest snow depths on the lower pistes is in late February. If you had said early April, then the question would be reasonable.
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Thanks all, this has been most helpful.
My other question is after a hard days skiing me and my group love nothing more than to come off the mountain and enjoy a couple of good lively hours après ski before meal and bed. Any good bars? 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Quite a few, depending on what you fancy...
Tanne nice and cosy; on your right hand from central sport/mannlichen bahn walking back to the bernerhof.
Rocks across post office; less cosy, but good atmosphere - Always seems this one is favoured by the Brits to me.
Crystal formerly known as Chilli's can't miss it across street from Central: Younger public generally.
Eiger bar: next to the bakery towards railway station: Tiny, cosy.
Another option is the open air bar at the bottom of the nursery.
Then Silberhorn, Victoria Lauberhorn hotel bars tend to be open to the general public too.
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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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Thanks all for the helpful info.like an over excitable child now as my holiday is getting closer!!
Hope you all have or have had great holidays.
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