There's such a thing as too much snow!

[SignumPhil]

I'm just back from a lovely week in Austria for a spot of the old cross country skiing.
It only snowed twice while we were there -once from Friday to Wednesday, and once from Thursday afternoon 'til Saturday!
We had a total of about 2 metres of snow, and the avalanche warnings were at level 5 -that's the highest!
Skiing was a bit tricky, as it was hard to find the trail sometimes, but we still had a good time.
A few piccies:
The village centre (a place called Filzmoos):



How to get snow off the roof:



Me after a 5k trail:



Not quite a Vectra, but still useful:



The village from above:



A few more mountains:



As I'm sure you can understand, I'm really happy to be home. (NOT!)

Phil

[Duncan]

Man, I bet the sunsets from that last pic were superb!

[big rich]

now that is lovlly m8

very nice

[ccsnet]

What global warming.....

Terran

[badback]

I see what you mean about losing the trail, your'e on the roof in one of the pics.

[SignumPhil]

Man, I bet the sunsets from that last pic were superb!

Unfortunately, you have to take a gondola up to the spot I took that one from, 500m above the village, and it stopped before sunset. It's theoretically possible to walk or ski down, but the piste is a red/black run, and the cross country trail is a black level, 7km haul. The footpath is almost vertical and 500m of very deep snow, so I didn't fancy any of them after sunset. Especially as it was -10 at night!

Phil

[ion]

Stunning pics mate!

[Ian T]

great pictures

[spoons]

That looks great

[soulman]

WHOW ....stunning pictures ...nearly as much snow as we had then