BDST - Hintertux 13/11/07

Here is the team at the top of the Hintertux glacier. It was a cold day but the conditions where excellent and the base snow is going to mean an early start to the season. Our local resorts in fugen are opening for the weekend this weekend (17/11/07).

British Disabled Ski Team

After the big snow falls over the weekend the weather has come out nice today. It was very cold with -20 degrees at the top. Here are the coaches waiting for the lift to open, the lift was berried under 6 meters of wind blown snow! In the end we moved to another piste and had a great day. The lift was open in the afternoon, it was the 2nd time in 2 days that they had to dig it out.

2 Meters of early season Snow

Around 2 meters of snow has fallen in the last week the early winter season is going to start for ski weekends from the 17th November. After last season snow conditons it looks like the normal snow is back. the photo is taken from Hintertux, we are up in hintertux for the British Disabled Ski Team.

British Disabled Ski Team in Hintertux

British Disabled Ski Team are in Hintertux for their pre season race training. The weather has been difficult for race training but great snow conditions have made the skiing good. The snow has been falling heavily this weekend and and we are expecing about 2 meters of snow over the weekend.

Pauline Visits

Pauline has started working for Redpoint in the UK and was out in Fugen to for some resort training. While she was here she checked out the hotels and look around the Ziller valley. Just before she arrived it snowed down to 1000m. Hochfugen was looking good with early season snow and blue sky.