Thread: zee matterhorn en zermatt

figure i'd get in a couple of warm up days on the glaciers of zermatt. it was cheap (for zermatt) at this time of the year and i'd never venture there with the hordes. if you ever get a chance to see the matterhorn, it really is beautiful.

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Damn those are some sexy looking pants.

you're f**** lucky!!! never seen it SOOO beautiful in the past 3-4 years! ALWAYS much more cloudy and damn damn damn damn windy!
when have you been there? past week? I was planning a blitz - say - Nov 22, 23 or 25th... interested?

Originally Posted by Beaver

Damn those are some sexy looking pants.

LOTS of racer eurotrash up there, but a few of them were smokin' fast.

Nice!

How was the crevasses filling up there at the higher altitudes?
Not much snowfall recently, or?
Any pics by chance...

oops, double post.

Originally Posted by verbier61

you're f**** lucky!!! never seen it SOOO beautiful in the past 3-4 years! ALWAYS much more cloudy and damn damn damn damn windy!
when have you been there? past week? I was planning a blitz - say - Nov 22, 23 or 25th... interested?

was there this past weekend, wind came up on sunday a bit and they had to close at about 2:30, but got very lucky in general. it was an anniversary of sorts for my gf and i so i wasn't too worried about the skiing, it was more just to be there and get a few runs into the legs. they have a 'ski test' deal going with 2 nights, 2 days lift tix, and tons of skis to try out for about 200 euros/person depending on hotel.

http://www.zermatt.ch/e/packages/s51.html

top half had very good, soft, winter snow, bottom half was a touch icy underneath, but not bad at all. quite a few italians were up from cervinia.

i'm probably going to try and hit a weekend in december somewhere, but it'll be very snow dependent and quite last second. i'll let you know where tho.

Originally Posted by Spamhelmet

Nice!

How was the crevasses filling up there at the higher altitudes?
Not much snowfall recently, or?
Any pics by chance...

crevasses doing ok. no pics, but i did take a poke around, and it's certainly better than last year. they've had some good early snow with more on the way.

Originally Posted by verbier61

you're f**** lucky!!! never seen it SOOO beautiful in the past 3-4 years! ALWAYS much more cloudy and damn damn damn damn windy!
when have you been there? past week? I was planning a blitz - say - Nov 22, 23 or 25th... interested?

V.61, Weekend deal looked pretty sweet for Zermatt. If you could do it on weekend, Nov 20/21 or 27/28 I bet we could talk Ripzalot and TeleAl into joining in. Mid-week would be difficult, both working. Ripz was suppose to return on the 19th. I could PM if you are serious.

Forget the testing, bullshit. I got great skis and I am ready to put the turns and vertical in. litt

Nice pics man.....brings back the memories....i was over there two Novembers ago....most amazing little villages. I fell in love. You ski Saas-Fee at all? I had a blast there. It was empty this time of the year
Thanks for the Euro stoke, i'm jealous.

i'd like to ski saas-fee, but have never done it. there's an amazing tour around those parts that i'm hoping to do this winter. start in alagna, skin up b/t the lyskam and monte rosa, ski the glacier down into zermatt. lift up to the klein matterhorn, ski back down to cervinia, skin up and over to champoluc and then lift it across gressoney back to alagna. it can be done in a day, a long day.

Originally Posted by ulty_guy

i'd like to ski saas-fee, but have never done it. there's an amazing tour around those parts that i'm hoping to do this winter. start in alagna, skin up b/t the lyskam and monte rosa, ski the glacier down into zermatt. lift up to the klein matterhorn, ski back down to cervinia, skin up and over to champoluc and then lift it across gressoney back to alagna. it can be done in a day, a long day.

yeah yeah yeah..... cervinia champoluc can be done by lift if you're tired...but what about a H E L I tour?
Ulty, keep me updated on when you wanna do that!

Originally Posted by Lostinthetrees

V.61, Weekend deal looked pretty sweet for Zermatt. If you could do it on weekend, Nov 20/21 or 27/28 I bet we could talk Ripzalot and TeleAl into joining in. Mid-week would be difficult, both working. Ripz was suppose to return on the 19th. I could PM if you are serious.

Forget the testing, bullshit. I got great skis and I am ready to put the turns and vertical in. litt

LITT, I gotta bring the kids to their ski teams or class in verb during the weekend, whereas can escape more easily from work during the week... I haven't enjoyed so many holidays this last year so I can escape from work for a blitzkrieg day quite easily! stay tuned

Originally Posted by Raps

You ski Saas-Fee at all? I had a blast there. It was empty this time of the year.Thanks for the Euro stoke, i'm jealous.

Some saasfee pics coming up in few days...

Was there last summer for a supposedly hike/ski from allalinhorn but a partner faded out.
Ended up there just skiing.
That place is...mega. (shhhhhh...)

I will definetly go there...well, next summer, again.

As said,will try to post the 4th leg of the TR boom soon.


And ulty, if you have pics of breihourn in winter, id appreciate it!

Danke, meine karriwurst.