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Splitboarding in Kaunertal, Austria: High Alpine Big Mountain Riding in the Alps

Generally there is very little snow in the Alps at the moment. There was some early season snow especially in the Arlberg region a couple of weeks ago but most of that has been melted and rained away.

So if you want to find some interesting skiing and touring – go up high! the Kaunertal is a glacier ski area opened most of the year. It’s located in south/west Austria right on the Italien boarder. Ski touring to the Weissseespitze you actually skin partly through Italy before reaching the Peak. The Gepatscherferner glacier is humongous and the biggest in the eastern Alps.
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VIDEO: Insane Powder in Austria Today

It’s only September and people are getting faceshots in Austria. Almost doesn’t seem fair as we sit in record heat this week in the Western USA… But it’s our fault, right? Shouldn’t we all be in South America or Austria skiing powder right now? Yes. Yes we should… This video is from Hintertux, Austria today. Hintertux got over 3-feet of snow the past few days. It’s only September and people are getting faceshots in Austria. Almost doesn’t seem fair as we sit in record heat this week in the Western USA… But it’s our fault, right?
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35″ Powder Day in Austria Today | Photo Tour:

Hintertux Glacier, Austria today.

Wow. This is silly. People are getting fully shacked on September 24th in Austria today. They’ve gotten 35″ of new snow in the past couple of days up high. Hintertux ski resort is located in Austria, they have large glacier skiing areas, and stay open nearly year round. They currently have 10 lifts open with 18 available ski trails buried in 35″ of new snow. It’s currently 23F up top at Hintertux.
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Austrian Man Survives 10 Hour Avalanche Burial

An Austrian man survived being buried under a massive avalanche in Gschnitztal, Tyrol, Austria for ten hours on Sunday. His companion, a 27-year-old German man, tragically died at the scene. A rescue team was remarkably able to dig out the 23-year-old Austrian alive and conscious after he had been buried under 5 feet of snow. He is making a strong recovery.The two men were reported missing around 6:45pm, hours after they failed to return home for lunch. A helicopter search team spotted the fresh avalanche in the Sandesalm area, at an altitude of around 6,200 feet. The avalanche covered an area around 1,300 feet long and […]
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“Winter of Terror” (1950-51): 265 Avalanche Deaths in the Alps

In the winter of 1950-51, a previously unrecorded number of avalanches rocked the Swiss-Austrian Alps, killing over 265 people in the span of three months. Coined the “Winter of Terror”, this series of 649 avalanches destroyed over 900 buildings and thousands of acres of forests. This period is thought to be a result of atypical weather conditions in the Alps: high precipitation due to the meeting of an Atlantic warm front, with a polar cold front resulted in 10-15 ft of snowfall in a two-to-three-day period. Over 40,000 people were buried under snow over the 1950-51 season.

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