J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by ise

bandit wrote:The time that the teenager had spent buried, meant that the odds were well against him surviving.

If they had fallen off the drag lift, they would have had few choices. The other teen will be able to explain the details, and until the police have finished their investigation and released their report, we can only speculate that either boy intended to ski that slope.

It's now reported they were skiing the slope.

The police have made a statement that the second casualty unfortunately died from his injuries a couple of days ago. There's an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident.

What's upsetting locally is to see it's not making any difference, I can spot dozens of individuals daily skiing bad lines and totally unequipped.

Neither person in this case was wearing a transceiver, the recovery was after 1h 30m which is in itself extraordinary using dog teams. If you're in these places you need a transceiver nothing else will do.

bandit wrote:Just the right conditions for the run down too....and no-one followed you :shock:

they were too slow :) a couple fairly comically tried to get past on the schuss at the top, in tucks while I was putting my gloves back on but I lost them quickly in the red section, so far behind that I was stopping and taking photo's :lol:

My new years resolution was to get the first lift on new years day and ski the powder that was forecast, so that's it for the year now, I did get up and grab the first lift and I was the first on the slopes )



There was some great skiing around although it was a bit noisy as they were dropping explosives from a helicopter to release snow on some of the more unstable slopes.

Highlight of the day though was chancing on the piste basher driver coming off the black into the village, he said the run was clear to ski but the steep section hadn't been prepared which sounded altogether too good to miss. So, oddly, I was not only first up, I was first to ski down as well.

It's still dark and I can't quite estimate the quantity, my best guess is about 40cm in the village and more at the top. An epic dump (again) for the start of the year.

Tony_H wrote:Ok. Been back home about 2 hours, all unpacked, all the kit in the wash as we go away again saturday night. Mrs H has decided to take a bath, giving me half an hour to compile a report on my few days in Niederau and the surrounding area.

that's a great bit of work for half an hour )

Admin wrote:

RossF wrote:Hey you too, get a room :wink:

Give 'im time - he's not got a roof on it yet...

I can see the value of your property being seriously affected by climate change... and what's Ali G doing in your Igloo? 8)

like most property investments, this is not one aimed at people who are going to start asking questions :lol:

RossF wrote:Hey you too, get a room :wink:

that's cold :lol: