Thread: Snow for the Euros.

hochfügen: big area (more blues for the kids)
kühtai: smaller area (mostly reds for the kids) absolutely a plus! has a full sunny side for the afternoon/or a shady side for the afternoon (it depends on the wife)

Originally Posted by eug

Mags, a friend is looking for Austria recommendations for ski trip with kids. They are pretty average skiers so kid friendly place that is reasonably priced is more important than gnar lines.

Thanks in advance!

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meathelmet, as wisely already said by many the old poma lift was almost of no help for the lui variation... and yes, if you're tired you can always divert to the velan hut. Anyway, it's probably a bit too early to decide about what will be the less crawded/more snowy variation

If you like slogging, then go from Montfort to Dix in a day!

That trip over Les Portons when going from Chanrion to Vignettes is the titties, however!

now where did I leave my keys to the Thule box???

Originally Posted by Ripzalot

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Originally Posted by verbier61

Power station knockout. Strange to say, but the gele lift is probably the oldest among those in action in verb. It was opened in '74, if I remember well. Mont fort is way younger.

Early 60's mate! After the [impressive!] Aiguille de Midi was built Verbier wanted one too. I was shredding it in the 70's (damn - giving away my age here). MoFo was early 80's.

It was a cable that needed replacing last week AFAIK.
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Originally Posted by Meathelmet

Hey! Just to be sure : the st.bernard ski centre is bankrupted and closed for this season? they aint gonna keep it open in the spring either??

just checking for our haute route trip... day 3 on grand lui variation would mean 3000m/vert skinning without the lift...uuhh... I think reverting to the normal route will be the wisest...

Yep. Way closed.

It's a nice way around and worth the climb if conditions are good.
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Originally Posted by jumpturn

Italy delivered bottomless for a deserving telemaker, February 1, 2012.

Fake! [a Mark]
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Woke up at 3 a.m. to make it on a 6:50 flight to Prishtina. Around 7:30 they tell us it's canceled. Attempt to make it to Skopje tomorrow at the same time. Anybody on the ground over there? Is the chaos due to too much snow or piss-poor infrastructure to deal with it? I imagine it's more of the latter.

Originally Posted by yugi

Fake! [a Mark]
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Hunh? Getting senile, geri? Read the TR.

Originally Posted by jumpturn

Hunh? Getting senile, geri? Read the TR.

I dont get it: I read the TR to see why the dude in question seems to be doing fake-a-marks and I just dont see the explanation. I understand yugi but not you, jumpturn. No sweat though. Still are sweet pics.

We were touring on Sunday in eastern CH (Praettigau).
Northerly, shady aspects are still really good with about 30 cm of pow. Not the fluffiest anymore, but still very good.
You need to look for the sheltered areas though, because anything else is strongly wind affected.

Our tour was a bit too long; part of it because it was a long tour but also due to my friend's skins, which would not stick anymore in these temperatures. He had to bootpack for some distance, before we got them warmed up a bit again and could fix it temporarly with tape/wire/cord.

At least we could enjoy the awesome evening light and the rising moon after that exercise.
However my toes did not appreciate the temps, and I hope I will have them back to normal again when the weekend comes.

Originally Posted by yugi

Early 60's mate! After the [impressive!] Aiguille de Midi was built Verbier wanted one too. I was shredding it in the 70's (damn - giving away my age here). MoFo was early 80's.

It was a cable that needed replacing last week AFAIK.
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You're right and I' m too old to remember well ;-)
Mt gele mid '60 (I went valgardena by that time), mt fort 1982 (that Time I remember better)

Originally Posted by patxi

Woke up at 3 a.m. to make it on a 6:50 flight to Prishtina. Around 7:30 they tell us it's canceled. Attempt to make it to Skopje tomorrow at the same time. Anybody on the ground over there? Is the chaos due to too much snow or piss-poor infrastructure to deal with it? I imagine it's more of the latter.

Please do not tell me about airports. Spent a whole night in heatrow after 50% of flights were canceled because of <5 cm snow

getting to be a semi regular occurence .... this was from 2008

So it just occurred to me that I know very little about the pistes in Cham despite having skied there for about a month in total.

I'm race training a friend with Down Syndrome in preparation for the World Champs - we have a week of gate training booked in Flaine but will do 3 days warming up in Cham beforehand. She's a good advanced skier but we will be there late next week when it will be busy.

I was thinking of Le Tour, Flegere and Brevent. Maybe Les Houches but don't fancy the bus. Can't imagine I'd do anything more than scare her at GM.

Thoughts?

Just happen to be leaving for Hochfügen tomorrow, any comments on the current conditions? Would it still be worth it to take my ehp's, or am I only going to find solid hardpack? Any 'secret' stashes around (willing to do some minor touring)? Thanks!

Some Norwegians enjoying the conditions in Hochfügen...

^^ That really made me wanna ski! Thanks

^^^Shiiit what a throw-down-a-thon!

Ps.Did I spy CD1s in the clip...?

Originally Posted by SiSt

Some Norwegians enjoying the conditions in Hochfügen...

DAMN, those scandi's throw down!
So any clue of what remains of those conditions, still scored some really good pow last weekend in Switserland, so what's up in Austria? Would imagine the Ostwand getting tracked like crazy?

Originally Posted by Meathelmet

Ps.Did I spy CD1s in the clip...?

Yup. HP is on CD1´s.

Originally Posted by CarveMan

So it just occurred to me that I know very little about the pistes in Cham despite having skied there for about a month in total.

I'm race training a friend with Down Syndrome in preparation for the World Champs - we have a week of gate training booked in Flaine but will do 3 days warming up in Cham beforehand. She's a good advanced skier but we will be there late next week when it will be busy.

I was thinking of Le Tour, Flegere and Brevent. Maybe Les Houches but don't fancy the bus. Can't imagine I'd do anything more than scare her at GM.

Thoughts?

I would say Combloux or Megeve if you just want nearby pistes for a day but if getting to Les Houches seems like a pain. . . your idea is probably the only real option.

Originally Posted by SiSt

Some Norwegians enjoying the conditions in Hochfügen...

That was incredible. How do I get there...

Originally Posted by Frank Naets

DAMN, those scandi's throw down!
So any clue of what remains of those conditions, still scored some really good pow last weekend in Switserland, so what's up in Austria? Would imagine the Ostwand getting tracked like crazy?

soem contest videos here from last saturday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_FUe...layer_embedded

damn, i'm in that scandi-video! i am a star!!!!