All in a below average season. Although we had lots of snow in December, my first day on-piste was December 22nd. Riding in snowstorm or thick fog is just not my kind of thing. The christmas holiday season was absurdely warm, getting rid of most of the snow again. I managed 7 snow-days from December 22nd to January 1st, but this was more sport than fun. Really sunny days were rare in the whole winter. Due to minor injury and minor illness I had to take long breaks from snowboarding (just two snow days in the periode from January 8th to February 15th!). Early easter cut the season short.
This year I ended up in skiline.cc's top-100 list for both most meters of altitude in a single day and the whole season which shows that other people had a short season, too.
On the plus side, we had enough and good snow. This is also evident from the balance sheet below, I almost always went to Diedamskopf where there is almost no artificial snow.
Here is the balance sheet:
| 2005/06 | 2006/07 | 2007/08 | 2008/09 | 2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number of (partial) days | 25 | 17 | 29 | 37 | 30 | 30 | 25 | 23 |
| Damüls | 10 | 10 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 23 | 10 | 4 |
| Diedamskopf | 15 | 4 | 24 | 23 | 13 | 4 | 14 | 19 |
| Warth/Schröcken | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| total meters of altitude | 124634 | 74096 | 219936 | 226774 | 202089 | 203918 | 228588 | 203562 |
| highscore | 10247m | 8321m | 12108m | 11272m | 11888m | 10976m | 13076m | 13885m |
| # of runs | 309 | 189 | 503 | 551 | 462 | 449 | 516 | 468 |