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We had a really great week based in Pedraces even though the local area at Santa Croce shut on Wednesday and Sonpunt on Thursday. Some fantastic overnight repair work to lower areas, especially Corvara kept things skiable, the Sella Ronda was open both ways and still good to ski and dip on and off of to make great days out. The cinque torri and the hidden valley were in great condition apart from the very bottom. We went over to Alba using the new lift and enjoyed some good skiing on virtually deserted pistes. We had no lift queues and everywhere was quiet on the pistes all week. My son and I clocked up over 350k each in 6 days according to the Ski Tracks ap.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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So much closed now, very early finish to the season 
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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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Arabba is still hanging on for another week -- although the bare areas on the Burz slopes now have a 'green' tinge !
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Going very cold later this week. A bit too late for the lift served season though.
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Looks like another decent fall middle of this week
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Snow now arriving Over the Dolomites.
Bergfex are forecasting 70cms at the summits. More than has fallen all season 
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How much natural snow actually fell in the Dolomites this season?
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How much natural snow actually fell in the Dolomites this season?
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I'd say not enough to be significant. If it wasn't for the excellent snow making then the season would almost certainly have been a washout. If you looked at the snow off of the lower down pistes you could see that on the slopes that had sun none of it lasted more than 2-3 weeks from even the heaviest of the natural snowfall. Many of the interconnecting slopes with no snow making were closed for much of the season despite the ability for the snow groomers to shovel it about.
If you look at the snowfall history for Val Gardena on onthesnow.co.uk then the rough numbers are:
2017: 100 cm*
2016: 214 cm
2015: 142 cm
2014: 766 cm
2013: 572 cm
2012: 356 cm
2011: 120 cm
2010: 353 cm
2009: 462 cm
* ignoring 8cm on 5th April which is out of season - I haven't checked the other years for snow in/out of season and other years will also have the early snow in them as well as I think these are calendar years.
So it looks like 2017 is likely to be the lowest snowfall for the last 9 years, but close enough to the other couple of poor years to be more or less the same, and only about a third of the average snowfall (@ 340 cm) over the same period. Here's hoping next season will have more typical snowfall.
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Italy had one of the 5 worst seasons in the past 100 years. And their worst season this century.
It was a disaster.
Only the snowguns saved them.
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The good news is that although the natural snow fall has been poor, the skiing has been reliable with very high mileage of runs open and very few days lost or curtailed to wind, access or avalanche risk.
Also I suspect there has been a high proportion of excellent visibility days, which is what most skiers away for a 6 day ski holiday actually want.
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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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Wow 100cm is pretty dramatic. I mean there's been individual dumps there or bigger than it elsewhere in europe, and looking at the states this year its mind boggling. Still love the dolomites mind.
Incidentally last time I was there I got on a chair lift with an older Scot, skiing alone in the clockwise direction of sella Ronda, somewhere just shy of the place with the view of the lift with no pistes back down, from the south. Could it have been older scot?
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You know it makes sense.
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Incidentally last time I was there I got on a chair lift with an older Scot, skiing alone in the clockwise direction of sella Ronda, somewhere just shy of the place with the view of the lift with no pistes back down, from the south. Could it have been older scot?
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It's always possible although I don't usually ski alone, I'm not really that old and I don't speak with much of a Scottish accent so i suspect it might have been someone else.
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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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Italy had one of the 5 worst seasons in the past 100 years. And their worst season this century.
It was a disaster.
Only the snowguns saved them. |
That's quite the sweeping statement. 
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Mike Pow wrote: |
| Whitegold wrote: |
Italy had one of the 5 worst seasons in the past 100 years. And their worst season this century.
It was a disaster.
Only the snowguns saved them. |
That's quite the sweeping statement. |
It was far from a disaster- I skied Ortisei in early March and the skiing was wonderful. But the cannons probably DID save the season...
CG
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Likewise. Had great spring and new snow in Madesimo at the end of March.
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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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I just love Madesimo
Havnt been for years though.......
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| Maersk wrote: |
I just love Madesimo
Havnt been for years though....... |
Was blown away with how good it is 
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Spent most of the 80's in Madesimo
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| Maersk wrote: |
| Spent most of the 80's in Madesimo |
Lucky you 👍
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| Whitegold wrote: |
Italy had one of the 5 worst seasons in the past 100 years. And their worst season this century.
It was a disaster.
Only the snowguns saved them. |
Odd, I distinctly remember the Milky Way digging out chairlifts this season.
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Anybody know which piste this is?
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It's 'Laurin' No9 at Alpe di Suisi (got that from the Subtitles....)
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Ha.. didn't think of that. Thanks.
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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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You know it makes sense.
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I saw on Cortina d'Ampezzo's Facebook page they opened some lifts this weekend.
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