http://www.ineedsnow.com/blog ineedsnow for ski / snowboard holidays Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:11:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_1035" align="aligncenter" width="390" caption="Great skiing conditions in Davos - image © www.ineedsnow.com"][/caption] Just back from a trip to Davos and the ski conditions were superb, sunny days, plenty of fresh snow and cold, cold conditions. I was guiding a corporate group who were keen to take the route all the ... http://www.ineedsnow.com/blog/cold-davos-in-great-snow-but-forget-the-ski-route-back-to-kublis/ [caption id="attachment_1032" align="aligncenter" width="390" caption="banks of powder in Gerlos - image © www.ineedsnow.com"][/caption] Just back from skiing in Gerlos and scored a major powder day. The sun was intermittent but the visibility was good for almost all the day and the snow was sensational. There was so much un-tracked powder just ... http://www.ineedsnow.com/blog/gerlos-powder-skiing/ [caption id="attachment_1025" align="aligncenter" width="390" caption="Rifflsee - image © www.ineedsnow.com"][/caption] Today I managed to miss the gargantuan Pitztal Valley - I was being tailgated by a car and watched in my mirror it got pulled by an unmarked police car who was tailgating it. A 20 minute round trip was enough to ... http://www.ineedsnow.com/blog/a-minute-of-distraction-and-the-pitztal-valley-is-gone/ [caption id="attachment_1021" align="aligncenter" width="390" caption="The annual Stroh Juchee festival in the Zillertal Arena - image © www.ineedsnow.com"][/caption] I spent the day in the Zillertal Arena yesterday and watched the Stroh Juchee event - a bit like a carnival procession on ski piste, with locals trying to stop their ‘floats’ from making ... http://www.ineedsnow.com/blog/captain-spock-and-the-titanic-in-the-zillertal-arena/ [caption id="attachment_1014" align="aligncenter" width="390" caption="Zauchensee powder skiing, December 2009 - image © www.ineedsnow.com"][/caption] The superb opening to the winter in Austria continues with great powder skiing on offer in the Salzburger Sportwelt ski region. I was in Zauchensee over the weekend and the skiing was superb. I had to watch due ... http://www.ineedsnow.com/blog/more-powder-this-time-in-zauchensee/ [caption id="attachment_1012" align="aligncenter" width="390" caption="powder in Zell am Ziller and further snow systems arriving – image © www.skiingaustria.co.uk "][/caption] The easiest way into the best Zillertal skiing - Zell am Ziller opened today with powder on offer and few crowds. Underneath superb skies of snow clouds and shafts of clear blue ... http://www.ineedsnow.com/blog/zell-am-ziller-opens-with-powder-101209/ [caption id="attachment_1003" align="aligncenter" width="390" caption="Short colds days of powder – image © www.ineedsnow.com"][/caption] After several days of great skiing around Innsbruck, Axamer Lizum delivered another great powder day, this time under blue skies. With around 20cm of new snow that banked in places, adding to the already impressive off-piste then conditions ... http://www.ineedsnow.com/blog/innsbruck-delivers-another-top-powder-day/ [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usB2l3OMjiI[/youtube] After heavy snow last week the transformation from patchy lower slopes to deep powder skiing has been fantastic over this weekend. High above Innsbruck, Axamer Lizum delivered a great powder day on the season opening day, Saturday 5th. Off-piste is never great this early in the season but I was ... http://www.ineedsnow.com/blog/powder-weekend-in-innsbruck/ So the Foehn winds stopped finally and as usual the skies opened with a deluge of rain in Innsbruck and snow in all the resorts around Innsbruck. The south and west of Austria is experiencing some very heavy snow and this is set to continue tomorrow and return later in ... http://www.ineedsnow.com/blog/heaving-snow-falling-above-innsbruck/ The Stubai Glacier delivered some fearsome weather today as it was buffeted by extreme winds throughout the morning, forcing the closure of the glacier around lunchtime. Sitting on some swinging chairs today was a pretty cold experience, in marked contrast to yesterday where the sun made the frigid air temperatures ... http://www.ineedsnow.com/blog/freezing-temperatures-on-the-stubai-glacier/