Last week (before the big dump) Tuesday I went to check out "Little Japan" (lovely easy tree runs through beeches) and continued towards the top but had to turn back not far above the beeches as breaking trail on loose snow over berry shrubs was a bit of a fight and it was getting late.. 60cm at 1000~1150m, no base but didn't touch stones.
Next day @Roman , Vlad & I went round to the Austrian side for a tour from/to Schwarzenberg: lovely powder! 65cm at 1000-1100m.
Friday it started snowing cats & dogs for a long time: until about midnight Fri-Sat wet & heavy snow but also at 500m towards saturday morning it was all dry and fluffy, and lots of it : even in our town (500m above sea) we had at least 40-50cm by saturday 09:00. 30cm on top of cars that were cleared of snow Friday late evening.
Instead of going for a ski hike behind our building I went back to the Austrian-Czech border area, wanted to check out Little Japan: yeah yeah, even on the meadow above the car park (820m) it took me 2h to break trail over barely 1.5km... and running out of daylight soon, so had to turn back early.. anyway, good exercise..
..and the next skier(s) can thank me for the trail with beer.. I now understand why Finnish hunters use skis of 3m!Meanwhile in lower areas both in Bavaria and in CZ they had plenty problems with wet sticky snow on power cables and trees: in most of Bavaria all trains were cancelled and Munich airport was closed for at least 24h! 40cm snow in the centre of Munich! High avalanche danger all over the Alps.
But what a nice season start!
Lets hope the base settles and we don't get too much thaw weather.
Pictures coming asap!
According to the instruments closeby there was a good 80cm on Saturday morning with snow temp around 0°C, air temp just below 0. Wet & windy but fun! Long rainy 3h30' drive to get there and the same on the way back but worth the effort!
