Winter arrives in Austria – one metre of new snow on the Hintertux Glacier
Here in Innsbruck the weather has been very wet, windy and for the areas above the freezing level (today that was about 1100m in Innsbruck) there has been big accumulations of snow. Last week there was no snow on the peaks. According to the snow reports the Hintertux Glacier has had a metre of new snow over the last 3 days, the Stubai Glacier has somewhere close with the other glaciers including the Pitztal Glacier and the Rettenbach and Tiefenbach glaciers at Solden reporting around half a metre of new snow. Snow is set to fall for at least the next 6 days. Warm and sunny last week, now in deep winter. A couple of snow report pictures from today, one from just oustide Seefeld at 1200m and the other close to the Old Town in Innsbruck.
Seefeld snow 1200m – image © wernig
Innsbruck snow line at around 1000m – image © www.skiingaustria.co.uk
time was running…but here we go YEAH…I have a date with my skies on saturday…will let you know how conditions were on the glacier
Time was running??????? You are absolutely right – I was worried and for no reason really. Last year I skied the Stubai Glacier on the 5th October and got at least 50ccm of powder snow. So basically anyone there today will have had that and more about 10 days later than last year. The crazy thing with this winter so far has been that summer was here until about a week ago and then bang – es schneipt! So as far as I am concerned this winter will deliver just like last although it will last a week longer I was worried though with all that Tshirt weather in Innsbruck so recently.