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Back to Winter at Arlberg, Austria

Couloir entrance

After a week and a half of high pressure and spring like conditions we are back to winter weather. This is good news because everything but north facing slopes were getting pretty thin. Sunday it snowed about 10 cm and it was a nice little refresh, though a lot of places you were still hitting crust. Monday morning there was a couple hours of sun which we used to shred the rocky steep backside of Rendl, St. Anton. You can reach the ridge line from […]
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Epic Conditions at Arlberg, Austria

Hip deep skiing - Foto courtesy of Intothewhite.at

This past week has been insane. The snow has just been piling up. Between digging out my car and riding powder there has been barely anytime for writing conditions reports and taking pictures. It has been quiet on the mountain the past few days as well. Especially the dump days have been super fun with fresh tracks every run. Last weekend it snowed 40cm of dry light pow on a rather hard icy surface but if you stayed away from steep terrain you could ride bottomless faceshot pow […]
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Conditions Report Arlberg, Austria: Perfect Powder Day

Yesterday it was snowing hard all day with almost no wind. The snow just kept piling up. This morning the result was 40cms of perfect powder. Then more luck, skies started to clear completely at around 9 a.m. – what timing! The snow was just perfect and well bonded at most places. Some spots where the strong wind gusts had blown off all the snow last week you could still hit the odd rock. But most places it was just deep and fun with lots of faceshots. Top to bottom runs with well over 1000m vertical are finally full on! So we hiked up to the Maroikopf […]
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Freeriding in Lech Zürs am Arlberg, Austria

Photo: Chris Schnabel Foto courtesy of inthewhite.at

We received the last snow on the 4 th January. Rain left a harder layer underneath that was smooth and made the fresh pow on top fast and fun to ride. The past two days it was mostly sunny and conditions were nice for touring. Although a lot of avalanches had been observed over the past few days due to wind loading and sun effected heavy snow, the snow pack in the mellower more sheltered backcountry was settled quit well […]
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Pow and Sun at the Arlberg! What a Way to Start the New Year

Ready to drop

After a week of snowfall we recieved about 1.2 meters of the goods. On new years it cleared up for the first time for a whole day since it started to snow. It was very cold up to -18 C the beginning of the week but by new years it was plus Degrees on the mountain. The snow on pure south facing slopes got a little sun baked but still skied extremely well, all shaded slopes above 1500m were still great dry deep pow […]
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Blower Powder and Blue Sky’s in St.Anton, Austria

The cradle of alpine skiing St. Anton finally come’s alive with amazing light, blower powder after a long drought in November/December with barely any snow. The past week there has been quit a bit of precipitation that came partly as rain. Yesterday night it was cold and it snowed a good 10 cms all the way to the base and with the other 20-30 cms that we got this week there is decent base on most aspects now above 2000m. Up high in the alpine you can find up to 40 cms of fresh especially in east facing slopes and couliors where the strong westerly wind has deposited light dry pow […]
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