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| Orange200 wrote: |
| @amh15, why not put a separate post in The Piste about this, as I think it’s not just Dolomites? You’d get a lot more feedback. |
Thanks for the suggestion - trying to post respectfully since I have not been on snowheads much for a few years, until recently. I will post something on The Piste in the next day or two. Just having a go at improving mobile behaviour.
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Pistes around Alta Badia fantastic this morning, so much so we did a few extra runs before popping up to Cinque Torri where things were mainly good but a bit mixed. Some pistes lovely others scraped. Piste 92 is really a skiweg and one section was more like a bobsleigh run. No problem skiing back to the cable car, just ca 200 m on an improvised cut through.
Wait for the hidden valley taxi was 45 mins, we arrived at 11:10, but no queue for the cable car, they seemed to have less taxis than previously so maybe what you lose in one queue you gain in the next? We came back via the hidden valley, it was pretty scraped by then, ca 2:30pm. We haven’t skied it in a few years and won’t rush back, it’s very pretty but we both agreed really boring skiing. We decided to take the taxi back to San Cassiano rather than the horse tow to Armenterola and had a ca 10 minute wait whilst they got enough people to fill a taxi but it worked really well, you don’t have the novelty of the horse tow but it was very efficient. You miss out polling, a drag lift and a flatish blue.
Taxi to the cable car from Armenterola hotel eur8
Horse tow sign said eur 5
Taxi from parking at Capanna Alpina rifugio to San Cassiano gondola eur5, to Armenterola eur 4.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Seiser Alm Trip Report!
Sunday
Arrival day came with heavy snow falling fast. The road up the mountain was intense, with cars sliding all over the place. Our transfer vehicle had four wheel drive and proper winter tires and performed flawlessly, getting us up safely.
Monday
A true bluebird day. Cold, beautiful, and filled with huge amounts of soft snow being pushed around the slopes everywhere you went. Stunning scenery and classic winter conditions.
Tuesday
Another gorgeous day with blue skies in the morning. The pistes were in much better shape across Seiser Alm and the Val Gardena ski area. Snow began again Tuesday evening and continued into Wednesday.
Wednesday
Snow fell for much of the day. Conditions held up reasonably well until about 3:00 p.m., after which the pistes became increasingly lumpy and powdery, especially later in the afternoon.
Thursday
Overcast, snowy with flat light developing, particularly around Plan de Gralba and the Sassolungo area. The slope down to the Plan de Gralba Sassolungo lift was extremely mogulled, with hard, well formed bumps that made for challenging skiing. The sun finally started to come through in the late afternoon, which helped visibility.
Friday
Absolutely stunning. Full bluebird conditions with warmer temperatures. The pistes were in excellent shape until later in the day. An incredible finish with skiing in Val Gardena and the Seiser Alm area.
Now spending the rest of the weekend in Verona, a beautiful city with incredible architecture.
Love the Dolomites.
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Meh, halfboard.
Walked in. Looked at menu limited options. Walked out.
Went for a big chunk of steak elsewhere instead.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| Gored wrote: |
Meh, halfboard.
Walked in. Looked at menu limited options. Walked out.
Went for a big chunk of steak elsewhere instead. |
Glad you found something nice...crystal ball didn't see that one coming though?! 
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Maybe I'm spoiled at home but meat just as meat is one of the places I think they fall down. Meat with delicious sauce, great.
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| Joshsnowfiend wrote: |
Seiser Alm Trip Report!
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Love the Dolomites. |
I'm glad all your worries about lack of snow came to nought  ::: like you I was expecting white stripes down the mountain in Madonna :: In reality had to take two days off because of too MUCH snow !!!
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| Gored wrote: |
Meh, halfboard.
Walked in. Looked at menu limited options. Walked out.
Went for a big chunk of steak elsewhere instead. |
just curious -- which Hotel would that be ??
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| sheffskibod wrote: |
| amh15 wrote: |
For those wanting to follow the webcams in the Dolomites, I have hacked a small site together that integrates all* webcams from a large ski area into a single viewer. I added Dolomiti Superski over the last few days, with 148 webcams and a map: https://snow.obsession.cam/dolomiti-ss . Works OK on Android as well (in landscape). Suggestions for improvements welcome.
* The focus is on the really nice quality modern cameras - I might not have older / low-res cameras where resorts have these. Feel free to submit missing cams via the site. |
This is a great idea and must have taken some work but not sure if I am doing something wrong but impossible to view / navigate on an iPhone either landscape or portrait.
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Update - I have just made some changes that SHOULD mean that it now works in landscape on iOS and Android (I don't have iOS to test and the online test sites seem useless). It's not worth investing a lot of effort improving portrait given the shape of these webcam images and given that desktop is the main target. There's a fullscreen button, but this probably does nothing iOS. I'd be interested to hear if that change helped anyone.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Hi everyone
I'm staying in Santa Cristina in March and wondering if you can ski from Monte Pana directly to the bottom of the Sasslong?
The piste map says yes but doesn't look right on Open ski map.
Cheers
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| slider24 wrote: |
Hi everyone
I'm staying in Santa Cristina in March and wondering if you can ski from Monte Pana directly to the bottom of the Sasslong?
The piste map says yes but doesn't look right on Open ski map.
Cheers |
You can, but it involves following a narrow (unofficial) track -- I doubt there will be any snow on the track in March
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| albob wrote: |
| slider24 wrote: |
Hi everyone
I'm staying in Santa Cristina in March and wondering if you can ski from Monte Pana directly to the bottom of the Sasslong?
The piste map says yes but doesn't look right on Open ski map.
Cheers |
You can, but it involves following a narrow (unofficial) track -- I doubt there will be any snow on the track in March |
Thanks. Is the walk doable, rather than go round the houses on the lifts?
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You know it makes sense.
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| slider24 wrote: |
| albob wrote: |
| slider24 wrote: |
Hi everyone
I'm staying in Santa Cristina in March and wondering if you can ski from Monte Pana directly to the bottom of the Sasslong?
The piste map says yes but doesn't look right on Open ski map.
Cheers |
You can, but it involves following a narrow (unofficial) track -- I doubt there will be any snow on the track in March |
Thanks. Is the walk doable, rather than go round the houses on the lifts? |
Last year in jan plenty of snow on it but did not seem to be open or even marked but lots skiing it. Assuming your asking about the walk from the chair to the gondola it was about 3 min in a minibus so would guess 10 15kn walk.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Heading to Ortisei on Wednesday, first time and looking forward to it. Is it worth taking the big lad Soul 7’s or stick to something more piste orientated? Question for anyone who is there or just back?
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| Fifespud wrote: |
| Heading to Ortisei on Wednesday, first time and looking forward to it. Is it worth taking the big lad Soul 7’s or stick to something more piste orientated? Question for anyone who is there or just back? |
More Pistey.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Mollerski wrote: |
| Fifespud wrote: |
| Heading to Ortisei on Wednesday, first time and looking forward to it. Is it worth taking the big lad Soul 7’s or stick to something more piste orientated? Question for anyone who is there or just back? |
More Pistey. |
Thank you, confirmed my suspicions, we do live in hope though!
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Dolomiti app saying pralongia 2 from La Brancia (no 6) blue run back down into Corvara is shut, anyone know why?
Sun & Mon hsve been great days, snow forecast tomorrow.
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| Fairweatherskier wrote: |
| Dolomiti app saying pralongia 2 from La Brancia (no 6) blue run back down into Corvara is shut, anyone know why? |
Can't begin to say why but you can take the Biok and no 7 blue instead.
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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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If you are in the area and want to ski the Armentarola (hidden valley) piste back to Badia, do a quick check online on the superdolomiti site to make sure it's open. When we have repeated snow fall, they will close it if there is avalange danger.
Skied Bellamonte saturday with my son, all the time off piste, was amazing. Sunday Civetta. There is fresh snow this Tuesday/Wednesday, and my neighbour is starting to get excited (he's an alpine/sci alpinismo guide), which is a good sign.
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| tsgsh wrote: |
| Fairweatherskier wrote: |
| Dolomiti app saying pralongia 2 from La Brancia (no 6) blue run back down into Corvara is shut, anyone know why? |
Can't begin to say why but you can take the Biok and no 7 blue instead. |
Thanks, that’s what we did, was just curious really!
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| beester1976 wrote: |
If you are in the area and want to ski the Armentarola (hidden valley) piste back to Badia, do a quick check online on the superdolomiti site to make sure it's open. When we have repeated snow fall, they will close it if there is avalange danger.
Skied Bellamonte saturday with my son, all the time off piste, was amazing. Sunday Civetta. There is fresh snow this Tuesday/Wednesday, and my neighbour is starting to get excited (he's an alpine/sci alpinismo guide), which is a good sign. |
Good advice, we are in Corvara just now and was hoping to do it Thursday or Friday if conditions are right. Will be our first time there. Hope it’s open!
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| Fairweatherskier wrote: |
Dolomiti app saying pralongia 2 from La Brancia (no 6) blue run back down into Corvara is shut, anyone know why?
Sun & Mon hsve been great days, snow forecast tomorrow. |
We just came back from a week in La Villa and despite plenty of fresh snow falling - it was never opened (also 6A from top of Arlara chair to Pralongia II and 10 from top of Biok).
It meant Biok was often quite busy as it’s the only way open to get to Pralongia from La Villa or San Cassiano without going a very long way round.
I wonder if some of these runs do not have snow cannons , so were closed anyway - and with the dump(s) of snow the piste bashers were pretty busy coping with that to open them …
It did look like they had started to flatten some of the fresh snow out on the last day we skied.
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Thanks, that sounds like it might be why. Will keep an eye on the app just in case it re-opens.
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| Joshsnowfiend wrote: |
Love the Dolomites. |
Sssh! Don't tell everyone! 
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Just back from Corvara and since this thread was helpful to me I thought I'd add to it, I might post it separately too, should I? This is my way of thanking all those who replied to my questions here.
Dolomites are awesome. Ski resorts are generally dramatic and nice places but the Dolomites raise the bar again.
Corvara was nice, and the Col Alto hotel was great. Ski bus to whichever lift in the morning and ski home worked so well. Rent shop right next door made everything easy.
Weather was mixed with too much snowfall for me resulting in soft pistes that lumped up later but c'est la vie. Tuesday was good and Friday was excellent (Saturday must have been epic?) Did sella ronda green on Friday which my friends decided was inferior to orange which they did Tuesday. I only did a quarter to a third then took green back.
Colfosco is the place for nervous skiers, gentle slopes and wide. A little busy at times but you can't get everything. These slopes held up well and were skiable all day. My wife liked it.
Jimmis's is just an excellent restaurant, really good food, nice place, hard to get into. It's worth the wait though and the queue moves okay. Ribs, burgers and wine are all top notch. Edelweiss was good for a less fancy option. The smaller side bar had great tunes and we enjoyed an afternoon of crap conditions in there. They have alpacas outside and some idiot woman was throwing snow at them to get them to move for a photo. What's wrong with some people? I bet she claims to love animals too.
Infrastructure was pretty good on the whole although there are a couple of bottlenecks on the sella ronda. Not Austrian standard but nothing to complain about.
We missed good apres a la Austria, or even just a bit more volume. Austria's great that way. L' Murin was a bit of a disappointment, it had the tunes but was full of men, no seats, bouncers, smelt like a boot room and we didn't love the atmosphere. We even tried it again when we were half cut but only stayed for 1! The Nedderhutte it ain't.
The Ingham's rep was top drawer too, we don't normally bother reps much (i.e. never speak to them) but she was great on the bus and the couple of times we saw her. Repping to another level (made up word!)
Innsbruck airport was shocking. Fine going into the country but a terrible mess to get out of again. I thought they'd want to make it easy to leave? Smells like a typical Politian's response to immigration problems - make life 4 times harder for legal travelers but ignore real problems.
To sum up.....I can't wait to go back, hopefully for a week of better piste conditions and visibility. The trade off might be less scenic conditions but you can't have everything. I've already looked at 2027 holidays!
Thanks for tips I read on here.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@Onmebum, Selva has more of an apres scene. For drinking and dancing, hit the Luiskeller early doors. 
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| Onmebum wrote: |
Just back from Corvara and since this thread was helpful to me I thought I'd add to it, I might post it separately too, should I? This is my way of thanking all those who replied to my questions here.
Dolomites are awesome. Ski resorts are generally dramatic and nice places but the Dolomites raise the bar again.
Corvara was nice, and the Col Alto hotel was great. Ski bus to whichever lift in the morning and ski home worked so well. Rent shop right next door made everything easy.
Weather was mixed with too much snowfall for me resulting in soft pistes that lumped up later but c'est la vie. Tuesday was good and Friday was excellent (Saturday must have been epic?) Did sella ronda green on Friday which my friends decided was inferior to orange which they did Tuesday. I only did a quarter to a third then took green back.
Colfosco is the place for nervous skiers, gentle slopes and wide. A little busy at times but you can't get everything. These slopes held up well and were skiable all day. My wife liked it.
Jimmis's is just an excellent restaurant, really good food, nice place, hard to get into. It's worth the wait though and the queue moves okay. Ribs, burgers and wine are all top notch. Edelweiss was good for a less fancy option. The smaller side bar had great tunes and we enjoyed an afternoon of crap conditions in there. They have alpacas outside and some idiot woman was throwing snow at them to get them to move for a photo. What's wrong with some people? I bet she claims to love animals too.
Infrastructure was pretty good on the whole although there are a couple of bottlenecks on the sella ronda. Not Austrian standard but nothing to complain about.
We missed good apres a la Austria, or even just a bit more volume. Austria's great that way. L' Murin was a bit of a disappointment, it had the tunes but was full of men, no seats, bouncers, smelt like a boot room and we didn't love the atmosphere. We even tried it again when we were half cut but only stayed for 1! The Nedderhutte it ain't.
The Ingham's rep was top drawer too, we don't normally bother reps much (i.e. never speak to them) but she was great on the bus and the couple of times we saw her. Repping to another level (made up word!)
Innsbruck airport was shocking. Fine going into the country but a terrible mess to get out of again. I thought they'd want to make it easy to leave? Smells like a typical Politian's response to immigration problems - make life 4 times harder for legal travelers but ignore real problems.
To sum up.....I can't wait to go back, hopefully for a week of better piste conditions and visibility. The trade off might be less scenic conditions but you can't have everything. I've already looked at 2027 holidays!
Thanks for tips I read on here. |
I had the same ski experience/conditions this past week in Val gardena area. The scenery on the dolomites is just too good.
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The Saturday WAS amazing (sorry!) , cold firm snow all day with blue skies … this is the advantage of DIY… fly in and out Sunday and you get a (relatively) quiet Saturday skiing plus Innsbruck is a bit less chaotic.
It might even be fun to fly in Friday and fly out a week on Sunday to get two Saturdays … flights would be the tricky part there though.
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Innsbruck airport is fine if weather behaves and flights are on time.
If a couple of flights are delayed there is just not enough space for all the people.
Fine other than winter Saturday's
Verona and Venice can be just as much fun 
Agree re the Inghams rep Patricia? knows her stuff.
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| sheffskibod wrote: |
The Saturday WAS amazing (sorry!) , cold firm snow all day with blue skies … this is the advantage of DIY… fly in and out Sunday and you get a (relatively) quiet Saturday skiing plus Innsbruck is a bit less chaotic.
It might even be fun to fly in Friday and fly out a week on Sunday to get two Saturdays … flights would be the tricky part there though. |
We were drinking coffee in the sun, looking up and being jealous. If we'd had another couple of hours we might have bought passes and got ski back but it would've made life tricky.
Rep was indeed Patricia.
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In selva now. Had two days skiing. Went to pozza di fassa today. The volcano black over there is awesome. Was a mission, only just made it back. Skied 30 miles. Pistes are fine, off piste I’d pretty much non existent. Having a great time. Hardly any snowboarders here, the lack of of piste options is probably the route of that, but weird to see so few.
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@scotspikey, I was in Campitello a few weeks back and thought the ratio of snowboarders was fairly normal for Europe - about 1 in 10 to 1 in 20. But TBF I cannot see the Dolomites as a snowboarders dream - hard packed pistes and the occaisional flat bit.
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Snowing now in Madonna. 6" forecast tomorrow and a bit more on Wednesday. It'll keep everything looking pretty but being completely selfish I'd rather have sunshine. The pistes are near perfect at the moment anyway. I think sometimes the natural snow doesn't stick well to hard pack and gets moguled quickly.
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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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| Sailbad the Sinner wrote: |
| Snowing now in Madonna. 6" forecast tomorrow and a bit more on Wednesday. It'll keep everything looking pretty but being completely selfish I'd rather have sunshine. The pistes are near perfect at the moment anyway. I think sometimes the natural snow doesn't stick well to hard pack and gets moguled quickly. |
Thats what I found in MDC last week -- snowed a lot, but soon moguled ; scrapped down to the hard base..
I found the Groste area best for snow :: for some reason they had snow cannons working for two days - that after a big dump ??
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Thats what I found in MDC last week -- snowed a lot, but soon moguled ; scrapped down to the hard base..
I found the Groste area best for snow :: for some reason they had snow cannons working for two days - that after a big dump ??[/quote]
This is our ninth trip to Madonna and I honestly think today is the first time there hasn't been a cannon going on Groste, usually at the snow park. I reckon they're trying to make the jumps visible from outer space. We were here at the end of July and there was still a fair bit snow left.
Great fun today, especially as the sun came out for a couple of hours early afternoon. Hoping it doesn't dump too much in the night so they can get everything groomed nicely.
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@Sailbad the Sinner, Those jumps were the largest I have ever seen !!!
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Surprising how often there is a relationship between the weather in the Dolomites and the UK .
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| albob wrote: |
| slider24 wrote: |
Hi everyone
I'm staying in Santa Cristina in March and wondering if you can ski from Monte Pana directly to the bottom of the Sasslong?
The piste map says yes but doesn't look right on Open ski map.
Cheers |
You can, but it involves following a narrow (unofficial) track -- I doubt there will be any snow on the track in March |
As an alternative you can take the two person chairlift down from Monte Pana to St Cristina- you take your skis off and hold them in your arm, jogging off at the end.
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