Messages posted by : Dave Mac
And awfully bad breath, for at least two days! One of my best pals lives in Oberau, and every time I visit there is a most solemn ceremony, where the 80 Euros a bottle Krautinger is reverently poured. And equally revererently tipped into the plantpot, when mine host is not looking! |
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This is the best post, except that I don't agree that it is all in the head. No, for most people, it is a real and justified fear. When you have skiied as long as Andy and I have, you just deal with it. I would also add that in the majority of cases, we are not dealing with ice, but more like hard packed snow. It still has to be treated with respect. In a previous similar thread, one J2 clown of a poster suggested being "aggressive" on ice, and was swiftly, and rightly, taken to task by Admin. |
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I confess to having a bad jacket experience. My lovely red jacket, practically brand noo, only 15 seasons, 75 weeks skiing old, was inadvertantly left in the carhire area at Munich Airport. As luck would have it, my OH had FORCED me to be an expensive TK max jacket. In BLUE. |
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Just to add to the store of knowledge about visits to the skiwelt, if you are guests of the Hotels Sonnschein, or Harfenwirt, there is free coach transport to the Hopfgarten Gondel at 9.00am every Thursday and Friday. Return at 4.30pm. Buy a pass at the lift office.
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I wax my skis every night. And then, I wax my frau's skis every 2nd or 3rd night, just in case she decides to have a good day! - )
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I can assure that the old primary server has already done the appropriate stuff in Niederau! So good luck, and the same continuing fortune to the new server!
Hot shot statistics, Admin! Of which, 231 countries was very interesting~ that must include most of the non-skiing world. How influential is that! |
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Well, the conditions are perfect. Has been powder snow every day. Not too many people, because it is January. Temp is -5 to -12, so the snow quality is superb. It is lovely, easy moving skiing, as good as it gets. Had several good runs down with old Austrian ski instructor mates, then caught up with my frau, and attempted to repair my marriage!
This afternoon, had a great off piste run from Niederau to Oberau, down the Katzenberg. Most people in the group had limited off piste experience, but the Katz is a great run, and we had a lot of fun. There are a number of international teams training in the village, and I was chatting to some of the guys from the Polish team. I have really got to find the guy who did the speed gun. He egged from the top of the T bar, and must have been hitting 70kph before he entered the speed gun! A Burns supper at chez nous tonight, must go and practice my "Ode to a mouse"! |
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We had one difficult day with snow conditions, but still quite skiable. After that, the snow improved every day. As mentioned the north facing retains good conditions down to village level.
The most positive aspect was the run over to Leogang village. OK, it wasn't steep, but it was lovely meadow skiing. Cheap to eat at village level. Some interesting traditional stubles to drink/eat on the mountain. We had a fair bit of nebel, fog, but that is a feature above 2000m in many resorts. Met up with an old fell running mate, who is a good standard skier, so we had a blast. We stayed in Hinterglemm, but viewed it as expensive, and visited/did Skiset ski hire in Saalbach. We thought this a more interesting village, retaining some of it's old character. Having said that, the skiing is much better, now that we are in Niederau. Outside of the USA, I have never experienced such good mountain management. |
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