Sun, 13 Apr 2014 17:03:12 +0000

balance sheet snowboarding season 2013/14

Little snow, but above-average season. The macro weather situation was very stable this year, very high snowfall in Austria's south (eastern tyrol and carinthia), and long periods of warm and sunny weather with little precipitation on the northern side of the alps (i.e. us).

This had me going snowboarding a lot, but almost exclusively in Damüls since it is characterized by a) grassy terrain (no stones) and b) huge numbers of snow cannons.

I started early (December 7) with another 6 days on piste in December. If there had been more snow the season would have been a long one, too. - Season's end depends on the timimg of easter (because of the holidays) which would have been late. However I again stopped rather early, last day was March 30.

In addition to the days listed below I had an early season's opening at the glacier in Pitztal. I attended the pureboarding event in November (21st to 23rd). Looking back at the season I am not quite satisfied with my progress, I just have not managed to implement and practise the technique I should have learned there. It is next to impossible when the slopes are full, and when they aren't one likes to give it a run. ;-)

Here is the balance sheet:

2005/06 2006/07 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14
number of (partial) days251729373030252330
Damüls1010510162310429
Diedamskopf154242313414191
Warth/Schröcken030413100
total meters of altitude12463474096219936226774202089203918228588203562274706
highscore10247m8321m12108m11272m11888m10976m13076m13885m12848m
# of runs309189503551462449516468597

Posted by Andreas Metzler | Permanent link | File under: fun