J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Juddernaut

BTW I am not having a go at J2Ski specifically. Most reports I find are slightly (to very) different for any resort you are to name.
Rossyhead - I even found one for Bormio that said there was 0cm (yes zero) of snow in Bormio, so I don't know what you have doing there.

Booked Ortisei\St Ulrich for Dec 20 about a month ago. Since then I have checked been constantly checking webcams and snow reports (sad I know), praying for lots of white stuff.

Now, J2 ski report the following for Selva Gardena
Upper 20cm
Lower 15cm

Whilst, the Val Gardena Website http://www.valgardena.it/en/snow-report/page355.html reports;
Updated: 10.12.09
Type of snow Powder
Snow level Valley: 30 cm
Mountain: 110 cm
Last snowfall 25 cm (08.12.09)


Quite a difference? Looking at the Webcams it looks like really good conditions so should I be panicking when some reports say the lower slopes only have 15cm cover. What do you consider the bare minimum (all other things being equal) for decent sking?

PS - i know very little about skiing

2nd last day of a weeks sking and I was with a mate when we came out of a hut and found his hire skis were gone. We eventually figured out that somebody must have accidently mistaken their kick-arse, waxed carvers for my mates skis. We took the good ones and explained what had happened to the hire shop. We used them for the two days and returned them. The owner eventually showed up and got his skis back.

I didn't get the Austrian vignette last time but then I didn't realise it cost a cuppla hundred EU if you got busted. Actually, I didn't understand anything about them but I might buy the vignetee this time. The Swiss stop you at the border and make you hard over cold hard cash.

Benny - regarding your German motorway sleepover; your morning coffee will be rubbish but they get better as you head south.

I am making a similar trip am am also tossing up whether to get winter tyres. I made it there and back last year without them but admittedly it got hairy there for a while.

Hopefully some if this snow that is pounding the Italian Alps will move over to the Dolomites\Tirol and stay there when you arrive around XMAS (I assume). We booked into Ortisei for the 20th but no snow there from what I can gather. Really starting to worry.

Pretty much did this last year. I live in Belgium (but am not Belge) and took the E411 down thru Lux. Then skirted Stuttgart and crashed the night in Karlsruhe. Then onto Filzmoos, in Austria. Then popped down to Venice and but came back thru the Brenner pass. Drove thru blizzard in the Brenner pass and things got hairy (rear wheel BMW 3 series, no winter tyres, chains in the boot where they belong) with us sliding all over the place. Luckily a salt truck showed up and we shadowed that until it eased off as we dropped into Switzerland. Left Venice and got home to grey old Brussels in 12 hours.
German roads were very ordinary I thought. Lots of roadworks, zero lighting and no "cats-eye" reflectors, which are everywhere in Oz and out weather is a lot better.

I think Austria may now have some vignette system (a la the Swiss)?

Any chance of snow up there at Christmas? We are booked in for Dec 20 to Dec 27 but the webcams aren't showing any decent snow. Dreading that there will be no snow.........