We’re out in “too low for early season” Austria at the moment. Considering we’ve been skiing man made snow on piste for the whole week it’s been pretty impressive (especially compared to last year’s disappointment in Skiwelt).
There hasn’t been any natural snow of any substance for about 4 weeks and it has been too warm for the cannons to be running most of the week. It’s been hovering around freezing around town most of the time – getting up to 17c at the top! Yet there aren’t any mounds of sugary slush like you get in Spring. Lovely smooth flowing pistes in the morning followed by hard/scraped and very fast with very light soft stuff in between in the afternoon. For my sins I carry a Garmin and whilst we don’t blast it we’ve managed 4 x 40+ mile days and a 39 mile day (lifts and skiing).
If there was plenty of natural white stuff between the pistes here (as they are at the moment) no on one would be moaning. I know where I’d rather be at the moment!
All this said, I much prefer being out here for this week than next when it will be quite a bit busier and more difficult to get about.