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Austria Conditions Report: Powder, Sun and Big Terrain

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November has been a very unusual month in Austria. It’s been the warmest November ever recorded in weather history (in 240 years). That of course meant close to no snow at all in the mountains except of course on the glaciers and at higher elevations above 2500m. So we have been waiting and praying for colder weather and snow. Temperatures have still been quit high but freezing level has dropped to about 2000m now in early December. On the 2nd of December it finally snowed a 10-15 cms mostly in the […]
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3-Feet of New Snow in the Alps Today | Photo Tour:

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A snowstorm came down hard on the European Alps yesterday. Today, they awoke to up to 3-feet of new snow in parts of Autsria and beyond. This early season storm is the result of the remains of hurricane Gonzalo. It pounded the alps yesterday with winds up to 90mph and snow levels as low as 2,500-feet. As you can see from these photos, certain parts of the alps got dumped on – mainly Austria. Some ski resorts are already open and it looks like Hintertux and Panai in Austria will open tomorrow to a powder day. Winter starts with a bang in the Alps this year. Last year, Italy had record snowfall – the biggest in 15 years – […]
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VIDEO: Skiing Powder in Austria on July 3rd, 2014

Austria just got a bit of a snowstorm this past week. These photos are from Hintertuxer Gletcher ski resort in Austria on June 30th, 2014 and July 2nd, 2014. Yeah, that’s a lot of snow for late June. These guys in this video decided to get out there and take advantage of it. They did well and got some fun shots. Not bad skiing for July 3rd. Europe has a handful of ski resorts that operate year round. Even Verbier used to. There is still some quality glacier skiing up high to be had in Europe during summer. You might want to hurry and get up there and […]
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VIDEO: TGR’s Award-Winning Austrian DEEP Powder Edit

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“Fieberbrunn is a placed with gauranteed snow,” said the elder Fieberbrunn local Sepp Pletzenauer when interviewed for the Austria segment of Way Of Life. “It has the open terrain, nobody around, beautiful powder snow, and I just go and make my path.” Sepp’s sagacious outlook on his home terrain proved to be more than accurate. The powder that Sage Cattabriga-Alosa, Dylan Hood, and Colter Hinchcliffe found there after a seven-hour […]
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Alps Conditions Report Video | Long Lines in 3 Feet of Snow on Oct. 11th & 12th, 2013

The Alps got nuked on this weekend. HIntertux & Kaunertal in Austria were open and this weekend. Kaunertal had to close down on Friday after receiving 100cms (39”) of new snow. The boys at WePowder.com got out there and got after it and it was good. Mostly glacier skiing on mellow terrain, but who’s gonna complain about thousands of vertical feet of mellow, deep powder skiing in October? […]
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