Snow for the Euros.

[davidof]

Went to the Eiger West face on Saturday.

Nice....

[herr_stoiber]

Went to the Eiger West face on Saturday.

epic! been dreaming of doing that ever since i first saw it. how difficult is the climb? a lot of rope use, technical sections, or can you get by with plunging most of the time?

[Orash111]

epic! been dreaming of doing that ever since i first saw it. how difficult is the climb? a lot of rope use, technical sections, or can you get by with plunging most of the time?

You can skin from 2000m till 2600m (I didn't because I have a splitboard and no crampons for it yet, so I bootpacked). From there you go up with crampons and one iceaxe past the seracs and up until about 3450m (where I started feeling sick). You may want to rope up for the top 500m, but it is not necessary (not really more then 45 degrees, but it is a continuous 45 peppered with rocks so it can be a bit intimidating). You could also take 2 iceaxes if you want, but one is sufficient.

[herr_stoiber]

thanks for the answer, orash111! will put that on my watchlist for the next seasons then

[Eremitten]

Still plenty of snow up in the north of Norway, Tromsø

[uli]

Still pretty nice skiing around Gd-St-Bernard and Pte de Drone (photos from 17 ans 18/04/2011)


(From Mt-Fourchon toward the Hospice)


(Aside us, only a few did Mt-Mort)


(View from the top of Gde-Chenalette to the westface of Mt-Velan with its couloirs)


(Combe des Marmottes)

[herr_stoiber]

[?Slovenia?]
Does anybody know good touring around the Soca valley / Sella Nevea / Kanin / Juliske Alpe area? Will be going there this weekend to kick off the kayaking season (even less water elsewhere) and would like to earn some turns in the mornings.
Thanks!

[jumpturn]

The skiing is not so bad in Cham with good timing, correct aspect, and high elevation. (Of course, you need to stay out of crevasses getting there....)

Skiing pow on the Col des Cristaux, April 17, 2011

[keksie]

Scenic video tr with pretty bad snow from Tamok in Norway




Snow got a bit better after that, skied pow in trees all the way to 30m above sea level yesterday. Now it's warmer again though

[freak]

over here you can still ski powder, you just have to know where to go!
despite that you have to avoid crevasses and to do 2000m vertical, half of it as a bootpack!

freak~[&]

[Meathelmet]

Keksie loves Head!

That was some...intresting snow there...uuh...

[jumpturn]

Made in the shade.

[Ripzalot]

^^^cool pic jumpturn!


i found some snow too...

[Marius]

@keksie: thumbs up sorry for not answering, but didnt had net-access in norge. maybe someone should invent tents and snowcaves with wlan. quite good touring conditions up there atm. be aware of big cornices. for acc. http://www.destinasjontromso.no/engl...mmodation.html (last entry: Magic Mountain Lodge). will post some infos on powderguide soon.

@orash: nice one! still on my list.

@herr stoiber: afaik you can also go the normalroute via the west glacier (afaik orash did the nw-face/glacier).

[Onward]

There's still snow to be found, you just have to know where to look [/smugness]

Meathelmut and me had a failed attempt at waiting out the storm on spanstinden, norway today...

[TeleAl]

Snowed to 1800m.
Tour du Romandie arrived in Leysin yesterday.

Snow is a day late.

[uli]

Snowed to 1800m.
Tour du Romandie arrived in Leysin yesterday.

Snow is a day late.

Hey, today in my backyard . . .


(1.700m, skis on)


(southside of Dents du Midi not looking that good)


(but the opposite face of the lake, north, is pretty fine still and will stay so for several weeks)


(from there to about 1.800m it was fine spring snow skiing).

[uli]

Somewhere in zone Barberine . . .

[verbier61]

a few lonafjordur pics (thanks to haykur sigurdsson !!)

[patxi]

A few more from the Hornstrandir peninsula last week:

[Marius]

found some nice light in Norway. (damn, hard to get up that early!)
for more infos in german tschast put the name of the cr in your browser...

[Vihren]

Winter is back in Bulgaria, snowing above 1800 in Rila mountains . Tomorrow should be a surprise powder may day
http://www.maliovitsahut.com/index.p...mid=60&lang=bg

[keksie]

here is a video of jumpturning 700-800m vertical (in Finnish)




heading back to norway tomorrow

[uli]

Today, nice spring skiing in the Bas Valais:

[Marius]

some snow left in austria.