European ski safari - St Anton Day 4
Well, it was an epic day. By the time Bruce and I got ourselves sorted out, and umming and ahhing over whether or not to sign up for the 'Powder Club' (the Arlberg ski schools guided off-piste group scheme), it was about 9:30 am. Incidentally, the booking service for the Arlberg Ski School is a complete mess. So we decided to cut our losses and get a 3-hour private lesson/guide for the morning, so that we'd find out where all the good off-piste was without getting lost/killing ourselves... as well as get some good hints whilst in the off-piste. I hadn't skied real powder since 1999, and Bruce since.. well....ever really!
After a few warm up runs in the powder to the skier left of the Zammermoose chair, we headed over for a run off the top of the Kappall Chair and then traversed across to Ski Route 33, finding some good tracks.
Then we headed up the Zammermoose again, and this time found some great fresh tracks to the skiers right. Our instructor/guide, Yves from Belguim, also turned out to be a great cameraman as well, and he took some great footage of Bruce and I getting thigh deep powder.
The ski out back to the Ski Route 1 Home trail involved a nice section through the trees.
These shots, taken from the top of the Gampen chair, looking across to the Zammermoose chair, shows the area where we spent most of the day.
Some of our handi-work!
In the afternoon Lorenz joined us after catching the train that morning from Munich. Now armed with his famous Canon 350D with 70-200mm L glass zoom lense, it was time to take some fantastic action shots to add to the video footage.
Then we headed up the Schilder Spitze to get some freshies on some avalance debris to the skiers left of Ski route 15.
We still found some good snow below Ski Route 15, heading into Ski Route 4, even though it was fairly late in the day by now.
We then returned to our hunting ground earlier in the day to get our serving of sweet sweet powder.
After a few warm up runs in the powder to the skier left of the Zammermoose chair, we headed over for a run off the top of the Kappall Chair and then traversed across to Ski Route 33, finding some good tracks.
Then we headed up the Zammermoose again, and this time found some great fresh tracks to the skiers right. Our instructor/guide, Yves from Belguim, also turned out to be a great cameraman as well, and he took some great footage of Bruce and I getting thigh deep powder.
The ski out back to the Ski Route 1 Home trail involved a nice section through the trees.
These shots, taken from the top of the Gampen chair, looking across to the Zammermoose chair, shows the area where we spent most of the day.
Some of our handi-work!
In the afternoon Lorenz joined us after catching the train that morning from Munich. Now armed with his famous Canon 350D with 70-200mm L glass zoom lense, it was time to take some fantastic action shots to add to the video footage.
Then we headed up the Schilder Spitze to get some freshies on some avalance debris to the skiers left of Ski route 15.
We still found some good snow below Ski Route 15, heading into Ski Route 4, even though it was fairly late in the day by now.
We then returned to our hunting ground earlier in the day to get our serving of sweet sweet powder.
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