Looking at the date I am posting this it will not come as a surprise that the season was not a strong one.
For pre-opening I again booked a carving fresh-up workshop with Pure Boarding in Pitztal (November 21 to November 24). Since the resort extends to more than 3400m of atitude the weather can be harsh. This year we had strong southern winds and moved to Riffelsee for Saturday, which turned out to be a really nice resort.
Natural snow turned out to be a rare commodity this year, but nevertheless I only rode at Diedamskopf where they rely on tnatural snow almost eclusively. They again managed to prepare quality slopes with natural snow. First day on snow was 15 December followed by a long pause until December 28. Having loads of unused vacation days I did three- or four-day work weeks in January and start of February whenever work (thanks, colleagues!) weather and conditions were nice. In hindsight this saved the season.
Since resorts have closed yesterday or will close today due to COVID-19 I am missing out on riding in Warth/Salober in spring.
While the number of a days is a low number, the quality of riding was still high.
Health-wise jumper's knee has kept me from finally really improving on my backside turn.
Well here is the balance-sheet, excluding pre-opening in Pitztal:
| 2019/20 | 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 | 21 | 33 | 29 | 30 | 17 | 24 | 30 | 23 | 25 | 30 | 30 | 37 | 29 | 17 | 25 |
| Damüls | 0 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 29 | 4 | 10 | 23 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 10 | 10 |
| Diedamskopf | 21 | 26 | 19 | 23 | 12 | 13 | 1 | 19 | 14 | 4 | 13 | 23 | 24 | 4 | 15 |
| Warth/Schröcken | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| total meters of altitude | 160797 | 296308 | 266158 | 269819 | 138037 | 224909 | 274706 | 203562 | 228588 | 203918 | 202089 | 226774 | 219936 | 74096 | 124634 |
| highscore | 9375 | 10850 | 11116 | 12245 | 11015 | 13278 | 12848m | 13885m | 13076m | 10976m | 11888m | 11272m | 12108m | 8321m | 10247m |
| # of runs | 374 | 701 | 616 | 634 | 354 | 530 | 597 | 468 | 516 | 449 | 462 | 551 | 503 | 189 | 309 |