All in a very good season.
For pre-opening I again booked a carving fresh-up workshop with Pure Boarding in Pitztal (November 22 to November 25). As expected this was a great experience with friendly people, but obviously extremely exhausting. ;-)
I started the regular season on December 15 in Damüls on artificial snow, riding a series of bumps through artifical snowfall. We then got a little bit of snow around christmas, which Diedamskopf somehow managed to converted to high-quality slopes, allowing 5 snow days up to and including January 1.
Then this season's snowfall happened (The total amount was not unusual, but quite a bit fell in a very short time.) and I had three amazing days in mid of January. Which promptly was followed by me hurting myself (again) when luging. Did not look/feel too bad, but MRI showed a small tibial plateau fracture, resulting in a snowboarding break until February 23, missing a period of great weather and great snow. From that point on I tried to take a holiday from work whenever there was a sunny day (14 days on-piste in March). Diedamskopf closed early this year (April 7, with about 280 cm of snow left), and even Warth ended the season on easter monday. I had an amazing Easter week with loads of sunshine.
Well here is the balance-sheet, excluding pre-opening in Pitztal and our company outing in Brandnertal (on January 12):
| 2018/19 | 2017/18 | 2016/17 | 2015/16 | 2014/15 | 2013/14 | 2012/13 | 2011/12 | 2010/11 | 2009/10 | 2008/09 | 2007/08 | 2006/07 | 2005/06 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number of (partial) days | 33 | 29 | 30 | 17 | 24 | 30 | 23 | 25 | 30 | 30 | 37 | 29 | 17 | 25 |
| Damüls | 2 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 29 | 4 | 10 | 23 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 10 | 10 |
| Diedamskopf | 26 | 19 | 23 | 12 | 13 | 1 | 19 | 14 | 4 | 13 | 23 | 24 | 4 | 15 |
| Warth/Schröcken | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| total meters of altitude | 296308 | 266158 | 269819 | 138037 | 224909 | 274706 | 203562 | 228588 | 203918 | 202089 | 226774 | 219936 | 74096 | 124634 |
| highscore | 10850 | 11116 | 12245 | 11015 | 13278 | 12848m | 13885m | 13076m | 10976m | 11888m | 11272m | 12108m | 8321m | 10247m |
| # of runs | 701 | 616 | 634 | 354 | 530 | 597 | 468 | 516 | 449 | 462 | 551 | 503 | 189 | 309 |