last few hours there is about 15cm of fresh in the village ... TGR here filming (and drinking obviously) ... tomorrow will be fun, visibility should improve on SA but the guides are worried about high winds ... anyway there is like 20 people skiing the whole mountain, crazy!
Nukage in the Ecrins and Haute Alpes, could have up to a metre by the morning.
Waaaa bring on day break, Hayduke where the fuck are you!
Be safe.
yeah, whatever.
I'm going to stop reading this fucking thread.
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Waiting can be so fucking hard. Going drinking - bound to bring on the snow...
alagna is gonna be the shit.... nukathon going on...looking forward to the next tgr movie...
finally the engadin is seeing some precip as well.
It's a war of the mind and we're armed to the teeth.
Macugnaga and San Domenico is getting hammered pretty hard also, so I've heard (that's like 1.5 hours from Andermatt?).
Small, trees, no freeriders... sounds like fun to me.
ticino, dudes, ticino is hammered hard...
from brig to domodossola there is the simplon road, which is always kept as clean as possible from snow, or (in case of major snow disaster) you drive the car to the train in brig station, stay in the car while the train moves to italy and drive away in iselle, few Km fro domodossola. You can not drive in the tunnel, which, like the furka pass, is for trains only....
Brig-Iselle Train Info
On a side, SLF is reporting some really sketch avi conditions that way. Any local reports on the stability?
#1 goal this year......stay alive +
DOWN SKIS
airolo, carì, bosco gurin, splugen, even san bernardino.... you can't be wrong. But maybe the higher the better, because the snowline has been fluctuating a bit (it's quite hot right there in milan and so it can be in ticino up to sat afternoon)...
anyway, I have family committments and will drive verb sometime tomorrow...
alagna is off the hook....dumping for 40 hours already ... today was totally sick, went to the Gressoney trees and the snow was tiddies deep! 35cm of new yesterday, approx 40 coming for tomorrow ... they closed all runs in Alagna in the afternoon though, snowpack seems to be pretty stable though .. vis is shitty but thats expected.
Funny to watch TGR and Matchstick hitting it on the same spothaving great time here!
#1 goal this year......stay alive +
DOWN SKIS
Andermatt was waist deep today. Totally fun!Stability=ok under 30°-35°, not more... Ticino was being nuked...till Biasca. Never seen anything like that in Europe: the flakes were as big as 2 euro coins ahah
Who's there in Alagna?
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Always Fight Gravity
it blows my mind, we have yet to see a flake here in the tarantaise valley, and I can stare at a ridge from my window that drops into northern italy. Sometimes these mountains complexities in the weather piss me off.
we're heading towards saas fee tomorrow then work our way east sun/mon.
thought we'd play it conservative and stay in the red zone and not the purple.![]()
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Ecrins off the scale today, baws deep, and it is still coming down. The locals here haven't seen this much snow since 1992. Ditto the 30°-35° stability comment. Off to Italy tomorrow. But then home
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Ripz, you got a link to those maps?
Not that anybody here gives a shit....
been skiing down in Austria the last, what, 7 weekends. I have a 9-5 and that's all I can do. I ain't hitting the big areas but am doing what I can with Zell am See, Hintertux, SkiWelt, SkiAmade, etc........ It hasn't been that great for snow in these areas. I'm a deutschbag living in mid-bavaria so these are my targets on a friday night after work. I hit a fucking buried fence post last weekend and had to cancel my reservations at Wildschonau (yeah, I know) for this weekend. My first weekend at home for a couple months. My Italy trip is next week. My knee is fooked, but I'm going anyway to at least take pictures.
Anyway, cheers to you pukes living it up and having fun in the good stuff. Hopefully my MRI comes back negative. I've got some fun AT trips planned for the spring. Hate to break those obligations.
Cheers,
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