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Started by Lynn_D in Ski Chatter 13-Mar-2012 - 52 Replies
Verbier_ski_bum
reply to 'Piste Bashing' posted Mar-2012
I wish they groomed less:) Though if I get up early enough I quite enjoy skiing fresh cordiroy. But this season I skied so little piste that I only had my edges sharpened end of February after I skied almost 30 days.
Ian Wickham
reply to 'Piste Bashing' posted Mar-2012
I have not seen the piste bashers out and about duing the days for a lot of years :shock:
Tony_H
reply to 'Piste Bashing' posted Mar-2012
Trencher wrote:Which reminds of another consideration that is given to piste bashing. Warm daytime temps mean that often it is not good to groom until it is colder at night or even very early in the morning. If you groom wet snow and then the temps really drop, it'll be like concrete in the morning. Personally I rather like the snow like that, but most would not.
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reply to 'Piste Bashing' posted Mar-2012
4 pages of wibble removed - back on topic now please! TVM.
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AllyG
reply to 'Piste Bashing' posted Mar-2012
You can pay to have a go driving a piste basher in Serre Chavalier. There's an account of it here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/nov/07/learn-how-to-drive-a-piste-basher
I had a look on ski resort websites to see what they said about piste grooming, and found this on 2 Austrian websites:
http://www.alpbachtal.at/en/winter/skiing-alpbachtal/piste-grooming-snow-making
During fresh snowfall the snow cats start grooming at 4.00 a.m. By 8.30 a.m. the new snow has not yet had sufficient time to bind with the existing snow layers giving the pistes a very soft feel. Continuous snowfall during grooming gives the impression of ungroomed pistes although these have been groomed since early morning.
Pistes are not groomed during the day for safety reasons. Should you see a snow cat on a piste during daytime this could be because it is being used to transport something or on a rescue mission.
http://www.hauser-kaibling.at/en/technik/pistenpraeparierung/
Every day our fleet of piste maintenance vehicles is in use until far into the night (about 2 am) in order to ensure you can enjoy perfectly groomed pistes the following day. The standard of piste grooming on Hauser Kaibling is considered to be one of the best in the Austrian Alps.
Safety alertTo offer you the full enjoyment of unforgettable skiing each day all the ski runs are closed for maintenance from 5 pm to 8.30 am! The pistes are groomed and snow-making operations are carried out during this time. (PLEASE NOTE: the cables cross the ski runs!)
For some years now piste grooming on Hauser Kaibling has been carried out using so-called winch snow groomers. The engine on these modern snow groomers hangs from a steel cable which can reach up to 1,000 m in length. Optimum grooming of the steep slopes on Hauser Kaibling is only possible using this enhanced technique.
Ally
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/nov/07/learn-how-to-drive-a-piste-basher
I had a look on ski resort websites to see what they said about piste grooming, and found this on 2 Austrian websites:
http://www.alpbachtal.at/en/winter/skiing-alpbachtal/piste-grooming-snow-making
During fresh snowfall the snow cats start grooming at 4.00 a.m. By 8.30 a.m. the new snow has not yet had sufficient time to bind with the existing snow layers giving the pistes a very soft feel. Continuous snowfall during grooming gives the impression of ungroomed pistes although these have been groomed since early morning.
Pistes are not groomed during the day for safety reasons. Should you see a snow cat on a piste during daytime this could be because it is being used to transport something or on a rescue mission.
http://www.hauser-kaibling.at/en/technik/pistenpraeparierung/
Every day our fleet of piste maintenance vehicles is in use until far into the night (about 2 am) in order to ensure you can enjoy perfectly groomed pistes the following day. The standard of piste grooming on Hauser Kaibling is considered to be one of the best in the Austrian Alps.
Safety alertTo offer you the full enjoyment of unforgettable skiing each day all the ski runs are closed for maintenance from 5 pm to 8.30 am! The pistes are groomed and snow-making operations are carried out during this time. (PLEASE NOTE: the cables cross the ski runs!)
For some years now piste grooming on Hauser Kaibling has been carried out using so-called winch snow groomers. The engine on these modern snow groomers hangs from a steel cable which can reach up to 1,000 m in length. Optimum grooming of the steep slopes on Hauser Kaibling is only possible using this enhanced technique.
Ally
Topic last updated on 19-March-2012 at 11:52