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Thread: Snow for the Euros.
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01-26-2012, 04:13 PM #10776#1 goal this year......stay alive +
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01-26-2012, 04:44 PM #10777Registered User
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01-26-2012, 05:07 PM #10778
Probably a re-run, but holy holy holy shit:
http://server.fca.at/KaltenbergLawine.pdfEin Berg ohne Absturzgefahr ist nur noch Attrappe. (Reinhold Messner)
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01-27-2012, 12:53 AM #10779Registered User
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01-27-2012, 05:15 AM #10780_
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Last couple of weeks in Tyrol (treeskiing edition, sun&pow edition coming at some point). It is in Finnish too, BONUS POINTS!?
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01-27-2012, 06:33 AM #10781hanswurst
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01-27-2012, 07:31 AM #10782
Limone Piemonte?
Any body ski there? Know where to get tracks or check out first thing Sunday?
It's pretty close to me here in Sanremo but they haven't had any real snow yet this year so I haven't been yet, this low front coming in is supposed to dump on them thru Sunday. I can train up Sat, have a good evening there, get tracks on Sunday and be back home by dark. Saves renting a car and driving 5 hours up to Aosta like I've been doing lately.
Isola 2000 is a little taller but doesn't have a train station, so I'd have to rent a car for that. $200 car rental vs $15 for train.
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01-27-2012, 08:09 AM #10783
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01-27-2012, 08:12 AM #10784Cham-wow!
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Abries sucks* http://powderbible.com/2011/03/13/tr...d-trip-abries/
*This is not true.
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01-27-2012, 09:12 AM #10785
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01-27-2012, 09:32 AM #10786
All those require a 3 day car rental plus travel time & expenses, that avgs $1000 per weekend, I know I've been renting/traveling four out of the last six weekends. Done Val d'Isere/Tignes, Verbier, Cervinia, Courmayeur (twice), & la Thuile. Limone is $15 on the train. LOL
Now, next couple of months after this are different. After next week I'm on vacation, have a full time leased car, and don't have to be back at work on Monday. I WILL be traveling and skiing extended periods now that I know my way around the area a bit.
Besides, snow-guess is forcasting 75cm at Limone by Sunday.Last edited by BerettaRacer; 01-27-2012 at 09:48 AM.
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01-27-2012, 09:37 AM #10787
Avie death in Andermatt; wet slab broke off of Felsental E wall near the exit, swept some guy into the creek. 10:30 or so. We passed through around 9:20, but stayed high on right (W) side.
Clouds and cold moving in this afternoon. Did Urneralp then right Giraffe (?). awesome big pow lines, spicey exit couloir.Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
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01-27-2012, 09:40 AM #10788custom user title?
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01-27-2012, 09:47 AM #10789
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01-27-2012, 09:52 AM #10790Registered Luser
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Hey, we are three scandis arriwing in a-matt saturday and planning on staying a couple of days. Any pointers on where to stay?
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01-27-2012, 10:12 AM #10791
Originally Posted by J2Ski
30% open is more than enough base....
At least you won't be out too many ducats betting on snowguess!
Maybe it's time to master the bus!
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01-27-2012, 10:41 AM #10792
75cm fresh + rock skis = base
Besides I grew up right alongside you, Maine, (and probably many years before you) base is usually 2-3" of blue ice mixed with snow dust, LOL, or as they say "New England loud powder" (Probably was skiing Sugarloaf, Wildcat, The River, Attitash and Canon etc. before you were born)
I know, I know, here it's grass and rocks because it's been so warm.
But the original question is what part of the mountain to head to before the locals track it out.
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01-27-2012, 10:58 AM #10793
Here's your last clue:
http://www.05voyageurs.com/uploads/m...Saison2012.pdf
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01-27-2012, 11:21 AM #10794
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01-27-2012, 11:29 AM #10795
Old news.
Olux is still about 8 hours each way by train and they haven't had shit for snow yet this year either. Besides can get there late on a Fri but no way to get back Sun night. My job doesn't allow me to be that far out of contact without possibility of return in emergency. Thats why it's been easier to rent a car for the weekends and drive the 5 hrs up to the Aosta area and branch out from there, but it gets real tiring and expensive. Even from Verb if the grunts doing my job while I'm gone called with a problem I can be back in SanRemo in 6 hrs, day or night. And yes, my jobs that important, thats why I get paid 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week, 365!! $$ ka-ching!!
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01-27-2012, 11:50 AM #10796Registered User
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Less turns = more fun
Morning well spent
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01-27-2012, 12:08 PM #10797
Longone, thats the skiers right side of the Swiss Wall no? If so wife and I watched those lines go in yesterday. We put some of those lines in just below you. Sweet day indeed.
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01-27-2012, 12:27 PM #10798Registered User
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01-27-2012, 02:10 PM #10799
I've only spent a couple of days there last winter. If you can see, it will become pretty obvious where to head. Best bet is to head to the lift in the center (the one that ends at 2050 m). Go straight off that lift and you'll see the valley that head back down from there (skiers left). Do that a couple of times but it will probably get tracked out pretty fast. There are also a couple of entance points to that same valley from the ridge (look up and to the right when you are skiing the valley and scope it out).
It can also be good in those trees on the map below the 2050 point that slope down towards Limone 1400 (don't drop too low and the creek crossing at the bottom may be a bitch).
Enjoy.
Then head over to the place where the French Flags (on the map) are and head out the trail that goes past the restaurant towards the old abandoned forts. Climb up to the fort on the left and then traverse far skiers left and ski that terrain. Repeat.
Eat lunch at the little restaurant near the "20" on that map above. Order "Polenta Fonduta". If you are there for two days, you can eat at that place near where the french flags are on the map. Order "Polenta Salsiccia".
For dinner, eat at "Ristorante La Diligenza" and eat meat. It's a small place in the center of Limone Piemonte proper. You'll smell the smoke as you are walking around.
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01-27-2012, 04:27 PM #10800
Thx for the info. I had seen pictures of the old fort when I did a search, looks cool. Just didn't know if that was where to head for fresh. Saw way over on skiers right, right of the gondola, theres a long black working down, had thought about starting there, but I'll head for center and left if thats better.
Right now only planning a day trip, but if trains stop moving I may just happen to get stranded, lol.
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