Ski Areas in the Alps Closed by Severe Weather
Started by J2SkiNews in Ski News 03-Jan-2018 - 17 Replies
Dobby
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Admin
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tonypants wrote:But we felt that there could have been an extra half an hour skiing before they should have closed.
At a guess, I reckon about 20 skiers wish this gondola in Kitzbuhel had closed half an hour before it stopped today...
Photo copyright Werlberger (courtesy of tt.com)
Harald Angerer (via Google Translate) wrote: ... at around 2:00 pm a gondola had wedged itself into the middle station due to a sudden gust of wind and had stopped the train. Mountain rescuers of the district of Kitzbühel and the fire brigade moved out to rescue winter sports enthusiasts from the gondolas.
About 20 winter sportsmen were stuck in the gondolas. Mountain Rescuers and firefighters from all over the district were gathered to recover the prisoners.
At 16.30 the last guest could be recovered from a gondola.
:shock:
All reported safe and well but I imagine that was an "interesting" afternoon.
Far Queue
reply to 'Ski Areas in the Alps Closed by Severe Weather' posted Jan-2018
Admin wrote:
All reported safe and well but I imagine that was an "interesting" afternoon.
Guess it makes you appreciate the dirndl better when you get down though :twisted:
SwingBeep
reply to 'Ski Areas in the Alps Closed by Severe Weather' posted Jan-2018
Somebody has posted a video of today's skiing conditions at Zermatt on Youtube, bet you are all glad you're not here!
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Admin
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SwingBeep wrote:today's skiing conditions at Zermatt
Good grief! :shock:
We'll have to extend our snow condition vocabulary with "bits of forest"!
Iceman
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Iceman
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Tonypants
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It has been snow/ sleet all night so the top hopefully has had a good dump.
Icey , it is not cold at all averaging around -1 to 4 degrees here so I can assume it's similar in other regions in the alps.
The problem now will be Avalanche s as swingbeep has mentioned.
It's going to be an interesting day!
Topic last updated on 04-January-2018 at 06:55