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Hi all,
I'm looking at an extremely last minute self booked ski weekend over Easter. I'm renting a car so have some flexibility moving from various resorts. I'm travelling Friday to Monday with light rain and light snow showers forecast. temperatures reaching a max of 5 oC in the day and freezing in the evening.
I'm looking for some advice on the quality of skiing this time of the year or someone who has just returned from the St Johann in Tirol, Kitzbuhel and SkiWelt areas.
Is there decent snow on the slopes? Is it a slushy mess by early afternoon etc.
I'm just summing this up if its worth making the trip and expense etc. All being well I will have Friday from 2pm onwards, all day Sat, All day Sun and Monday till 12pm before heading to Munich for an afternoon flight.
I know its not the highest of resorts but but St Johan I believe is normally pretty good.
Any advice would be fantastic.
Cheers Mike.
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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 year it's still great. We still have winter down here, with about 1m new snow in last week or so. I was just talking this morning with friend who is living in Kitzbuhel, and he said they got another delivery of fresh powder through last night. Even down here in Slovenia (at 400m above sea level) it's currently snowing and it's -2c. So Easter holidays (which start in 3 days) are going to be just fine this year... except that weather forecast doesn't look all that great... whole lot of rain/snow through the weekend and not a single sunny day (except tomorrow) at least till middle of next week.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Plenty of snow in Saalbach-Hinterglemm (just over the ridge from Kitzbuhel)  Currently minus 5 in the village and minus 10 on the mountain and it has snowed for the last 16 hours, so conditions are excellent. It had been getting a bit slushy lower down (below 1500m) but not the last couple of days as it has been a mixture of cold/sun/cloud and the forecast is more of the same until the weekend.
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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 Lofer/Waidring and had fabulous skiing conditions. Would be off again this weekend if we win the euro millions Friday night.
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Returned at the weekend from Ski Jewel area (Niederau/Alpbach) and also skied Ski Welt for a day. Condition above say 1200m are great with quiet pistes and beautiful snow. Below that it can get very slushy on the resort runs expecially in the afternoon. Coming back down to Hopfgarten from Soll side the middle station was slush - on a South facing slope admittedly.
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Just returned from SkiWelt and conditions on upper slopes were excellent. Although they were trying to keep run down to valley bottom open it was not very pleasant and a Gondola ride down at end of day is probably a wise move.
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Skied in Kitzbühel/Kirchberg today and conditions were great. Even later in the day it was only the lowest slopes where the snow was soft and sugary. Runs like the Hochsaukaser (piste 55) were fine. Moderately busy on the first lifts but the crowds were well spread out later. Sunny at first, overcast in the afternoon.
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