Another year of minimal snow. Again there was early snowfall in the mountains at the start of November, but the snow was gone soon again. There was no snow up to 2000 meters of altitude until about January 3. Christmas week was spent hiking up and taking the lift down.
I had my first day on board on January 6 on artificial snow, and the first one on natural snow on January 19. Down where I live (800m), snow was tight the whole winter, never topping 1m. Measuring station Diedamskopf at 1800m above sea-level topped at slightly above 200cm, on April 19. Last boarding day was yesterday (April 22) in Warth with hero-conditions.
I had a preopening on the glacier in Pitztal at start of November with Pure Boarding. However due to the long waiting-period between pre-opening and start of season it did not pay off. By the time I rode regularily I had forgotten almost everything I learned at Carving-School.
Nevertheless I strong season due to long periods on stable, sunny weather with 30 days on piste (counting the day I went up and barely managed a single blind run in superdense fog).
Anyway, here is the balance-sheet:
| 2005/06 | 2006/07 | 2007/08 | 2008/09 | 2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number of (partial) days | 25 | 17 | 29 | 37 | 30 | 30 | 25 | 23 | 30 | 24 | 17 | 30 |
| Damüls | 10 | 10 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 23 | 10 | 4 | 29 | 9 | 4 | 4 |
| Diedamskopf | 15 | 4 | 24 | 23 | 13 | 4 | 14 | 19 | 1 | 13 | 12 | 23 |
| Warth/Schröcken | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| total meters of altitude | 124634 | 74096 | 219936 | 226774 | 202089 | 203918 | 228588 | 203562 | 274706 | 224909 | 138037 | 269819 |
| highscore | 10247m | 8321m | 12108m | 11272m | 11888m | 10976m | 13076m | 13885m | 12848m | 13278 | 11015 | 12245 |
| # of runs | 309 | 189 | 503 | 551 | 462 | 449 | 516 | 468 | 597 | 530 | 354 | 634 |