Little snow, but above-average season. The macro weather situation was very stable this year, very high snowfall in Austria's south (eastern tyrol and carinthia), and long periods of warm and sunny weather with little precipitation on the northern side of the alps (i.e. us).
This had me going snowboarding a lot, but almost exclusively in Damüls since it is characterized by a) grassy terrain (no stones) and b) huge numbers of snow cannons.
I started early (December 7) with another 6 days on piste in December. If there had been more snow the season would have been a long one, too. - Season's end depends on the timimg of easter (because of the holidays) which would have been late. However I again stopped rather early, last day was March 30.
In addition to the days listed below I had an early season's opening at the glacier in Pitztal. I attended the pureboarding event in November (21st to 23rd). Looking back at the season I am not quite satisfied with my progress, I just have not managed to implement and practise the technique I should have learned there. It is next to impossible when the slopes are full, and when they aren't one likes to give it a run. ;-)
Here is the balance sheet:
| 2005/06 | 2006/07 | 2007/08 | 2008/09 | 2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number of (partial) days | 25 | 17 | 29 | 37 | 30 | 30 | 25 | 23 | 30 |
| Damüls | 10 | 10 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 23 | 10 | 4 | 29 |
| Diedamskopf | 15 | 4 | 24 | 23 | 13 | 4 | 14 | 19 | 1 |
| Warth/Schröcken | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| total meters of altitude | 124634 | 74096 | 219936 | 226774 | 202089 | 203918 | 228588 | 203562 | 274706 |
| highscore | 10247m | 8321m | 12108m | 11272m | 11888m | 10976m | 13076m | 13885m | 12848m |
| # of runs | 309 | 189 | 503 | 551 | 462 | 449 | 516 | 468 | 597 |