Snow for the Euros.

[Sparky]

I might as well post a few pics, usually there is no internet here when it snows

Jolanda trees are ultra fun


Today was super deep




Pillows anyone?

Fucking stunning

[IridePow]

Too deep in Nufenen, Switzerland!
Too much snow for touring!!!

Not too often I have to say this, but today there was simply too much snow for touring.
In the town of Nufenen around 1.0m and higher up probably 1.20m plus of fresh snow.

It did not help that we were only a party of two, and also with snowshoes (I am doing a bit of training with snowshoes, so no splitboard today).
It sucked out so much energy just to do about 750 vertical meters in 5 hours! Man, that’s the lowest average ever for me.

We could enjoy a perfect wumping-concert today on the way up, so it was clear to not risk anything and stay on the low angle stuff.
We went from the town of Nufenen north to the Steinigboda and then another 300 vertical meters.
The southern slopes would be perfect for nice lines, but today we even had problems on the way down. Sometimes you got stuck on the flat parts and had to dig yourself out again.

But at least it was a good cardio training.

Most of the way up we were fighting the hip deep snow


up and up and up…


Highway to heaven


A few nice turns were had on the way down


Every once in a while the sun even poked out (especially at the end when we were right above the town of Nufenen again)


Should be great the coming weeks in those parts of Switzerland.

[Huck_Schmuck]

We have some more here too... Looking forward to tomorrow, even if you can't see!

[Meathelmet]

Maybe some couloir action tomorrow?

I would pay a few euros for watching you to try to ski those chutes...

[verbier61]

jolanda trees are among the most famous in italy.... and I never saw so much snow there in the past 20y or so ...
too bad verb was so foggy yesterday. I could decently ski 3 hours in the morning in spots protected from the W clouds, then I gave up

[Snowhead]

In teh Pyrenées the conditions were great this past weekend.
Using french words: c'est gavé !!!!

French Pyrenées resorts are reporting big amounts of snow. For example
-Piau Engaly: 195cm at 1700m-300cm at 2500m
-Cauterets: 230cm at 1700m-350cm at 2400m

We had a big playgorund in Andorra
3 pics from Arcalís (saturday)







4 pics from Grandvalira (Sunday, I skied alones, sorry, no action pics)









And more in the way, maybe 1 meter more during this week.

[Snowhead]

Sierra Nevada in southern Spain is buried too,..record snowfalling in this mountains:

[hop]

Pyrenees, eh? I was supposed to be on a heli trip in Baqueira right now, but the powers that be threatened firing if I left.

I suck.

[Snowhead]

Baqueira is reporting 185 to 295cm.....bad luck

[hop]

No shit! My friends told me all about the polvo profundo afuera de pista and I almost, no... did start crying. It's not everyday that I get offered free week-long heli trips, so turning them down is quite the character-building experience.

At least I have some hella gnar in my backyard right now.

[verbier61]

yesyesyes these obseth'ed do fluo in the dark........
well done, adam!

[hop]

heh... those are the old ones! I couldn't bring myself to christen the new ones on an urban assault mission.

[subtle plague]

3 pictures from today

and a fuck you to the Engadin that didn't open anything (when an avalanche whips out the bunny hill lifts in Pontresina, a good idea) but still sells day tickets, A SHITTY IDEA

the othe side of the lake was cool
and yeah they didn't open either, but we skinned up the groomed piste to do some tree laps. well until we saw the massive debris pile that had taken out trees and had its run out zone on the piste
actually the trees would have been safe, but skinning through the 80-100cm of fresh was impossible. and yes i tried.....
my GF was waist deep in the snow...WITH snowshoes!
i still made a little pillow line after i crawled up 30m vertical in 40minutes

yesterda though was ALL TIME!

[subtle plague]

teaser pic:
and yes I DO love big dumps
50cm over night. plus 40cm on the hill already. -> sunday frenzy.

official slf.ch said 63cm in 24h from 9am friday to sat 9am, thu 9am to fri 9am 22cm.
maybe 10cm sat/sun didnT look was too busy skiing deep pow

[the_teo]

It's been snowing in Sweden too!

~50cm over the weekend while the temperatures were down to -16C.

Can you say light snow?

[Marius]

anybody near martigny, who could host a friend and me from wednes to thursday?

offer german beer, some undefineable bavarian stinky cheese-thing (tastes REALLY good), free strinptease and poor german humor...

(and for sure, share the lines...)

[Incompetent Boob]

How's the coming weekend looking?
Had planned to head down for 4 days or so, but not sure. Got an offer for free accomodation in Laax the weekend after with some mates which is also tempting.

[verbier61]

marius, try
www.le-stop.ch in chable, very cheap, and I've only heard good things about it (not the same about the bunker, lately...).

[Huck_Schmuck]

anybody near martigny, who could host a friend and me from wednes to thursday?

offer german beer, some undefineable bavarian stinky cheese-thing (tastes REALLY good), free strinptease and poor german humor...

(and for sure, share the lines...)

What Francseco said. Should be able to hook up for a ski on Wednesday...

[Marius]

marius, try
www.le-stop.ch in chable, very cheap, and I've only heard good things about it (not the same about the bunker, lately...).

20 euros, very cheap?
thanks, but to expensive for me!


why is it impossibleto sleep for less then 40dm? before 2001 and the EURO, i slept everytime for 20dm, which is 10euros... wtf? )

[Hugh Conway]

the othe side of the lake was cool

I would have been there - if the roads/trains had been open

Zuoz was fun - I was fed up with the bullshit of Celerina/Corvatsch (I guess they opened 3 lifts on Sunday ) /etc.. Not all time - 500m vert of 25 degree pow is not "all time" - but fun in a wide open powder way.

Livigno sucks ass btw.

10euro? Tell them you'll share a bunk

[jwolter7]

It's starting to snow again at 1500 M in the Valais....

[jwolter7]

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Livigno sucks ass btw.

Can you expand on this, and give me a better idea of the area ?? I have never seen a trail map of Livigno. There is some tree skiing, is it no good, or was the snow just bad when you were there?

[jwolter7]

anybody near martigny, who could host a friend and me from wednes to thursday?

offer german beer, some undefineable bavarian stinky cheese-thing (tastes REALLY good), free strinptease and poor german humor...

(and for sure, share the lines...)

Where do you want to ski on Wednesday and Thursday?

[2-czech]

Maybe some couloir action tomorrow?

why not skinned up to Passo Zube and found no tracks going to the main couloir (name anyone?) ... went for lunch and got to Passo della Civera, the run down the Valle d'Otro was really wind affected and lot of slides all around ... still fun though.











This place is totally awesome ... staying here during the week you feel like the whole mountain is just yours ... really sad to leave, arrivederci Alagna!