I’ve always been a believer in the conservation of snowfall theory. It states, simply, that the global snowfall amount at any time is constant. It’s just where it falls that is different each year. Yep, and the earth is flat ….
This winter it was clear that the Pacific Northwest’s snow from November through January was falling mainly in Europe. The Arlberg was deluged during that period. Absolutely deluged. Then, as winter arrived here suddenly in February, the sun arrived in Europe. We arrived in Lech on the last day of February, which was luckily the last day of basically 3 weeks of unabated Spring conditions.
Our first day was foggy, snowy and still tad warm. Snow fell to village level. Just. It was actually good stuff for covering the hardpack. It snowed overnight. got cooler, and Saturday was a rather decent, sunny, powder day at Warth. The week continued with this pattern. One day sunny and Springy, the next a moderate snowy day with some fine conditions following. Overall it was a darn good week. Not epic, but with great terrain and decent snowy top ups, it is hard to complain.
It’s interesting how the Flexenbahn link to Zuers has changed skier traffic flow. On a powder day, we could comfortably ski from Lech to Zuers and be certain to have tons of freshies for at least a morning. Now, the St Anton hordes start rolling to the Seekopfbahn by soon after 10am. This dramatically changes how we ski the area. The best approach now is to jump on a bus from Lech as early as possible. We managed 5 or 6 laps before the lines built up. then it was to the Muggengrat for several more fresh lines. Luckily that lift rarely gets busy. And has superb terrain 🙂
5300, 8000, 8200, 8500, 9900, 8900, 6300, 8100, 9000m vert
Season Totals: 35 days, 268,000m vert. 10 powder days
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