J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by andyhull

One to aspire to though, give it a go as soon as you have the skills.

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The reason they close the upper half is that there are a number of danger points where the snow can slide across the pistes, they have to clear them before opening the runs. Usually that's well within an hour of the lower lifts opening. Great to watch though, especially when they are doing it using charges dropped by helicopter. We saw one mega slide that one time they'd had all that snow.

I couldn't find an option to buy online either, local pass office are very good however.

http://www.skiarlberg.at/ost/english/index.html

Doesn't usually take them long to get it all open.
Although one year we were there it did, they had had something like 3m of snow, everything above midstation was shut when we got there on the Saturday. That night they were going round all the chalets to tell everyone off piste was simply out of bounds – the way they put it 'you go off piste you will die'. The risk level was off the scale.
Didn't matter as there was 3 feet of powder on the blues!
The Sarenne was finally opened late on the Wednesday.

I can't see much, it must be snowing. :D

bandit wrote:As it's an ordinary piste without the cachet of La Face, it tends to have less hotheads straightlining

Not sure I'd agree with that, as it's the Mens World Cup Downhill run it attracts plenty of speed freaks.

Beginners paradise. And apres ski prices are very good. If you stay in Soldeu head for the Iceburg straight from the slopes (2 for 1 happy hour).
Fat Alberts later on.

Suggest we should get together as soon as possible, have a beer and I'll point out some of ADH's gems on a piste map.