Slowly everything is opening. We started 2 sundays ago at Kronplatz because the area with most pistes open. Splendid snow, not a lot of people, the nice blacks (with the exception of sylvester) and Ried still closed. Last sunday 3 zinnen, a lot more people (logical, long weekend for the italians), the steep blacks on croda rossa (holzrieze) still closed but most pistes open.
So far only day skiing (we live relatively close by, about 40 min from Alleghe), next week on to our traditional 10 days with Igor (Badia). Will report conditions then
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@luigi, I know of only two places in the world where Tomahawk di vitello is available.
Bit of a late 'heads up' :: BBC 2 at 19.00 tonight ; (A repeat) Amazing Hotels features the Hotel Hubertus on the edge of Kronplatz ski area.
See Rob Rinder on skis........
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@sean1967, Try Fredarola for steaks and a serious wine selection. The steak selection is worldclass and the place is a destination venue. Pays to book first thing or the day before .
Bit of a late 'heads up' :: BBC 2 at 19.00 tonight ; (A repeat) Amazing Hotels features the Hotel Hubertus on the edge of Kronplatz ski area.
See Rob Rinder on skis........
thanks for that, we don't normally watch this but caught the last half hour which was mainly about the area so interesting. And Rob Rinder can actually ski, I was expecting comic snow ploughs rather than recreational skier level.
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@Mollerski, they have great steak and wine, I had a nice Nebraska sirloin today but it's always a riot in there.
Chaos, the big yin running around, interrupting his staff, the mad grill chef arguing with the waiters, the music swinging from heavy bass dance to Dolly Parton, the big yin occasionally jumping on the microphone and then the pirate x bovine decor. It's a delicious but stressful experience.
After all it is free
After all it is free
I've just looked it up and seen that pistes and lifts are back on Google maps.
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I noticed in the resort rankings for currently open slopes, Val Gardena with 156km comes 4th in Europe after 3V (361km), Ischgl/Samnaun (194km) & Zermatt/Cervinia (192km)...
But if you add in the lift-linked areas, Alta Badia 74km, Arabba 42km and Canazei/Alba 32km, you get a total of 314km, which is a very strong second to the 3V...
...and I bet if you ordered a Tomahawk of Veal or Nebraska Sirloin in Courchevel you would need a second mortgage to pay for it!!
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When we went in 2023 a burger and fries at one hut in Courchevel was 38 Euro. This is one of the reasons we like Italia!
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@luigi, @melbouch, right, we need a full omertà, I'm one of the worst culprits but enough is enough.
The reality is Dolomites are difficult to get to, most of the snow is synthetic, the pistes are trivially shallow.
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sean1967 wrote:
@luigi, @melbouch, right, we need a full omertà, I'm one of the worst culprits but enough is enough.
The reality is Dolomites are difficult to get to, most of the snow is synthetic, the pistes are trivially shallow.
You make that sound like a bad thing.
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sean1967 wrote:
@luigi, @melbouch, right, we need a full omertà, I'm one of the worst culprits but enough is enough.
The reality is Dolomites are difficult to get to, most of the snow is synthetic, the pistes are trivially shallow.
You forgot that the food is terrible ; hot chocolate the weakest in the world ; bombardino is just yellow sick................................
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
And you can never get IPA or a decent pizza and don’t get me started on the hospitality…..
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I went to the Dolomites for the first time last January, I don’t know what all the fuss is about to be honest. It was raining the day I arrived and rained all the next day. Only had two days of skiing out of three. Food was terrible and some SH called Luigi recommended a load of rubbish ski areas and places to park.
Unfortunately I’ve booked to go again next Jan, I’ll just have to make the most of it I suppose.
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@japes1275, sorry for leading you up the garden path there! And you made the same mistake again...you're just going to have to grin and bear it, I suppose!
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@sean1967, none of the menus are in English either, and don't get me started on the wine or coffee....
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@sean1967, none of the menus are in English either, and don't get me started on the wine or coffee....
You can whine on about the wine as much as you like and cough when you try the coffee...
Dry and very gradually cooling down. Looks like A couple more days yet before they can start making snow again. Arabba, Alta Badia, Val Gardena and Val di Fassa currently about 75% of runs open.
Dry and very gradually cooling down. Looks like A couple more days yet before they can start making snow again. Arabba, Alta Badia, Val Gardena and Val di Fassa currently about 75% of runs open.
Sounds hopeful! I did spot a chance of snow Christmas week, we'll have to see how that develops...
312km open slopes today out of 429km total in the lift-linked Sella Ronda areas according to this...many more in other Dolomiti Superski areas too...
So yes, SR areas around 73% open by my calculation.
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Interesting discussion of temperature inversion on wePowder today...
So Selva (Wolkenstein 1592m)) village stays colder (4C) than the higher altitude Zallinger Alm (2055m, 6.6C) on Alpe di Siusi.
Also note the southerly Fohn effect, Adelboden in Switzerland hitting 11.5C and the Hochhorndl in Fieberbrunn/Saalbach ski area in Austria hitting 16C at 1769m, while the Dollies stay in single digits.
Been to the Dollies for lots of winters
The odd year there has been mega snow but not often
Skiing has always been fab whatever
The years with mega snow a bit more scenic but I have never needed to resort to walking boots yet.
We opt for the Dollies for January for the best chance of sunshine and accept snow cover may be down compared to further north.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
One of the many great things, no rocks!
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
Last January was decent. When Dolomites get 30cm in valleys and 50cm on the mountain and a week or so cold enough temps for snow making - things will look and feel much better !
Rain - not so much
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
Another great thing is shelter from the rain
They have had some great skiing weather for the first two weeks of the season.
Another 10kms of runs opening tomorrow at Kronplatz. 102/121 kms will be open and 29/31 lifts. The others look to be unchanged at the moment. Dry air but temps still marginal for snow making more generally.
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Hey thanks so much for the advice last weekend. I ended up at Chalet Elisabeth - which is extremely nice! (Although pretty reasonably priced for what it is - it was 1300 EUR for five nights including a day's ski pass, a free lesson, and breakfast every day.) Having an awesome time, but I promise not to tell anyone back in the UK that the dolomites exist, if that is the rule.
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michael99887766 wrote:
Hey thanks so much for the advice last weekend. I ended up at Chalet Elisabeth - which is extremely nice! (Although pretty reasonably priced for what it is - it was 1300 EUR for five nights including a day's ski pass, a free lesson, and breakfast every day.) Having an awesome time, but I promise not to tell anyone back in the UK that the dolomites exist, if that is the rule.
Wow! That looks a seriously nice place and very handy for lifts and apres!! Glad it worked out!!
Have you been hot-tubbing with the Germans yet??
Shhh, yes, first rule of 'Mites Club: You don't talk about 'Mites Club!!
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Something for the middle of next week appearing on the forecasts as a bit of moisture finds its way in to the southern half of the Alps, some heavy falls for Alpes Maritimes & southern Piedmont, but only light amounts in the Dolomites and snowline looking a bit on the high side...
Hello all, this is not skiing related…. I just finished watching Pale mountains on channels 4. It is filmed in Bolzano , and covers the fragile relationship between Italian and German communities of South Tyrol. But mainly Is a brilliant detective story , was totally addicted to it . if you don’t mind subtitles I highly recommend it.
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Harrow lady wrote:
Hello all, this is not skiing related…. I just finished watching Pale mountains on channels 4. It is filmed in Bolzano , and covers the fragile relationship between Italian and German communities of South Tyrol. But mainly Is a brilliant detective story , was totally addicted to it . if you don’t mind subtitles I highly recommend it.
Interesting! Will have to give it a look.
There have long been tensions, it even erupted into a terrorist campaign in the 1960s.
Things have simmered down somewhat in recent years with increased autonomy, language rights and South Tyrol becoming the wealthiest region in Italy.
I watched a BBC report some years ago -- started with "apartheid is alive and well, living in Northern Italy" : the main thing I remember about it was the seperate schools depending on which language was spoken.......
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@luigi, the story rotates around somebody trying to revenge the terrorists events of the 70s. Was not aware of all the troubled they had back then.@albob, if all apartheid were like that.
Can I ask where are you going this year? Have you booked already?
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@Harrow lady, I've booked for Madonna -- would have gone back to the Ronda, but ski buddies wanted to try somewhere else.......
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albob wrote:
I watched a BBC report some years ago -- started with "apartheid is alive and well, living in Northern Italy" : the main thing I remember about it was the seperate schools depending on which language was spoken.......
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My understanding is nowadays that is a bit misleading and it's more like the UK where there may be schools base upon religion. We are in the habit of spending a night in Bressanone and I've discussed with with staff in the hotel we use. Evidently in that town there are families which are primarily German speaking and others Italian speaking. So these families speak their first language at home and send their kids to the relevant school with that as a first language. However the students learn the other language intensively, so (nowadays) everyone there is bilingual but they have different accents. My favourite Italian accent is actually those who have first language German, my spoken Italian is 'ok' but the German-Italians in that region speak slowly, precisely and clearly so I find it much easier to have a conversation. You will also find that when shopping when you enter one shop they will greet you in German and then next door in Italian, all depending on the family background.
It gets more complicated in the Dolomitit Supserksi valleys when you add Ladin into the mix. My ski instructor in his 50's from Arabba told me that at school they would rotate between Ladin, German and Italian. One week of each, so week 1 all your lessons are in ladin, week 2 German, Wk 3 Italian then back to Ladin. Even then the ladin used in Arabba might vary slightly to that used in Badia. If anyone is on a ski lesson with a local instructor you'll notice they speak to different local people they know in different languages.
At least 1 snowhead learned Italian, moved to Italy but couldn't find a house in his first choice region. He then changed regions and had to learn German as that was the first language in that area
We did language school in Rome and evidently you do sometimes get German speaking Italians enrolling because there Italian isn't good enough to get a job and on rare occasions they hardly speak a word of Italian.
For background the Italian language was only standardised post ww2 and accelerated when television became commonplace. In the 60s there was a famous Italian TV programme that taught the "standardised" language "Non è mai troppo tardi" (it's never too late).
@luigi may wish to correct any of this, I assume you're Italian! (mi dispiace se il tuo nome è un pseudonimo, forse sei una donna inglese!)
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@richb67, Useful -- thanks
@Harrow lady, Watching Pale Mountains now -- hoping to improve my Italian (and German....................)
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