What a day in Kitzbuhel!
With blue skies, frigid temperatures and still masses of powder to tackle the conditions in Kitzbuhel today were some of the best that will be found all winter (probably). The snow pack in some areas was really mind blowing and whilst wind has played a role in drifting it into big slabs these sections in some places were 4 metres or more high. The Hahnenkamm race piste was looking immaculate and all fenced off and ready to deliver the epic race. One worrying blot on the horizon is the next snow front which is due to arrive for the men’s training day on Thursday, dump heavily on Friday for the super G day and carry on into race day on Saturday. Anxious organisers will start the sleepless nights as this system approaches - everyone else will be revelling in the continued epic snow conditions that arrived early December and haven’t left since. A quick snow report from today in the Kitzbuhel ski area:
long live KITZ ! absolutely have to see the 2013 race in the flesh,ski sunday coverage is torture ! lets hope the snow starts about 1.30 pm Saturday when the racers are attempting to catch up with the most thirsty Europeans I’ve ever seen !
Unfortunately the snow is set to arrive on Thursday at around 13:30. Hopefully the race will run but looking at the forecasts there are going to be some very fatigued race organisers between now and then, the Kitzbuhel Hahnenkamm Streif course doesn’t like snow - it is very, very steep ice rink and the forecast snow perversely makes it extremely dangerous. Fingers crossed though!