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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Looking good.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Hintertux also looking a lot less shabby than a couple of weeks ago.
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I'm assuming most stuff is shut in Sölden itself until the race thing.
It looks pretty much like summer race teams only there. What's the snow actually like?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I'm watching the forecasts, it's a long way off but I'll be doing a week at Easter here. There's some incoming this weekend to top the gletscher off a bit more.
Would i find Sölden limited going there the week after skiing Ischgl?
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It's as good a late season destination as any, plus you'll have obergurgl
Snow quality will be unrivalled on the glacier at that time of year. I do always admire ischgls pisting though.
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@8611, as good as Tignes?
We normally have 2 weeks at Easter in Tignes
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Can't vouch for tignes that time of year. Think easter early enough this year. Was in solden once in late April skiing in a t-shirt and snow was good even in the afternoon on the glaciers. Decent amount of terrain and variety between it and obergurgl.
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End of season, Sölden is usually open latest of the places around there.
Time it right and you can do Ischgl's closing party and then get over to Sölden in early May - they usually close May day weekend.
One issue is that most of the restaurants and stuff in the village close before then, and the party people stuff is mostly closed.
The snow quality at that time...
- If you're able to ride Ischgl top to bottom (as I have been) then the low down stuff is "transport only" (wet, with puddles), although it's wild and empty below the mid station (?) at that time of year and good on a snowboard at least. When I was there I rode that multiple times for fun.
- A bit sticky/ sloppy in the afternoon, then. Sölden I've never had sticky conditions I'd be concerned about, at that time of year. One of the pistes is called "the fridge" and is always in excellent condition (the T-bar to the left as you look up from the Retenbach base). The stuff through the tunnel on the Tiefenbach side gets more sun. People work out where the best conditions are and move around for those.
The worst scenario is rain; I've had that maybe one day in 20. I've also had 15cm of fresh, and stuff in Sölden open below the glaciers... weather's like that. Tignes is obviously good too. It's been a while since I was there but I think Sölden has more glacier variety, with two glaciers and multiple lines.
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| Would i find Sölden limited going there the week after skiing Ischgl? |
Probably if you were only skiing the 2 Sölden glaciers - but it is likely that there will be a lot more open than that at Easter.
We skied at Ischgl for a couple of days last January and loved it. We then enjoyed 3 days at Sölden last April just as much. It's a big, varied, ski area. Had forgotten how good it is at Sölden after not visiting for about 15 years.
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