Tauplitz before Christmas
Freeriding in larch forest
Insert: 30.12.2011
The trip was decided very quickly. When I received a picture of the crew from Montafon, I was disappointed that I did not go with them. It was written – Mega powder porn from Montafon + attached photo of Filip Paseka and Martin Knybel with their waists in snow. Well, maybe 5 times I banged my head to the table. I am jerk that I'm not there with a crew and I began to organize my own powder trip.
The crew for this trip was more or less clear - I called to main "powder locator" Petr Lyčka. He told me that is full time booked on Mondaz and Tuesday. So I finally broke him with the Wednesday departure. Petr then just put the rest of the crew together – Gazman and Frenk. And so we went on Tuesday just before midnight by a Gazmans VW multivan to Tauplitz. I must admit that multivan is a luxury car, especially those folding seats, these are mega mega super for long trips. I felt as somewhere in first class aboard at the Boeing. Road ran nicely on the highway and was clear to Petr that there will be a huge powder day, because he was the only one who drove a car. We were all snoring, but we still aroused by orange flashing light plows (I do not understand why they did not turn off the flashing lights at night, they woke up everybody around :-))).
At 6.15 we were there and we started looking for an apartment house, where it should be super cheap luxury drop off + extra 20% discount to a ski pass. Peter has found on the web, but no one has been there at 6.15 so we had a rest in a car. At 7.40 we finally found someone on the staff of the house and he stared at us as if we came from Mars, that he does not know anything about this and the price for 2 nights in a family apartment for 4 people is 250 euro. We said that he came from Mars! Then he called some friends, she had private apartement, but she wanted about 35 euros per person per night. So we gave up the search for a flat and we rushed to get on with gear and to buy a ski pass. A ticket for 3 days is 96 euros, which is not entirely free, but it's acceptable.
On the way up by a tram guys are checking a snow situation and are slightly embarrassed that it was better last year, it was more snow. I also dreamed that it would be a "powder hell", but I thought better this than nothing. Up the mountains the situation became much better, but we still wanted something more. During the first run it was clear that this surface is unstable and immediately I triggered a small avalanche.So I cut a mid-sized powder field, which went all down, but fortunately only about 20-30 cm of fresh powder, but even so warned us that it will go and we have to watch out our back for next couple lines. During the first day of snowfall continued and sometimes it seemed as someone ripped the sky over us. Flakes were already in places as euros. We were riding nice woods, where we did not meet almost anyone. We continued all day with a small break on the excellent goulash soup at a local mountain cottage. In the evening we found an apartment on the farm as pleasant 14 euros and enjoy what comes tomorrow.
When a plow cars ran the morning as crazy, I knew it would be a great powder day. Sometimes they went so often that in our room looked like somewhere at disco, orange everywhere. We eat breakfast packed ourselves to multivan and headed up the hill. On the way up you find that "epic winter" is here and there where something stuck yesterday and now there is nothing. Fairly fell to 60-80 cm and everything completely changed. Gradually, we found that even the snow is stable and so we can ride more steep faces and forests. It was powerful.
Suddenly a bunch of local and freeriders appeared and we were not alone on the face. So we occasionally met someone in forest but is really vast here and not enough of riders. All day we were working hard on the face. In the evening we were hardly able to even get out of the car and everyone mourned for something. Well first powder skiing this season, sore legs, hands and feet ached almost all members of the trip.
Třetí den se říká do třetice všeho dobrého, ale nás už ráno zarazila teplota u statku. Bylo +8°C a trošku jsme to nechápali. Při příjezdu do Tauplitz se teplota změnila na +6°C dole u lanovky a déšť. Chvíli jsem váhali, jestli nestřelíme permice a nepojedeme domů, i když u kasy stáli asi 3 lidi, tak jsem se rozhodli jet nahoru. Už cesta nahoru vyzkoušela naše oblečení. Jediná testem prošla moje nová bunda 3L gore, jinak už nahoře vážílo jen oblečení všech tak 50kg. První jízda po totálně zmoklém prašanu rozhodla o našem odjezdu.
The third day is always critical for the body, but we have stopped in the morning by the temperature at the farm. It was +8 ° C and we did not understand. On arrival in Tauplitz the temperature changed to +6 ° C below the lifts and was raining. We tried up clothes during our way up. The only which passed my test was a new jacket 3L Gore-tex, otherwise the weigh of all the clothes was about 50kg . First ride in a totally wet powder decided on our departure.
Trip was great, two days mega powder. Unfortunately, lately, winters are becoming more erratic and the temperature does what he wants and so the third day was only good for a way home. It certainly was not my last visit at Tauplitz resort. We will discover is a bit more, and will write a guide.
Author: Martin Klika
Photogallery from trip: http://www.powderline.cz/en/galerie/fotogalerie/modrinovy-tauplitz-pred-vanoci/
At 6.15 we were there and we started looking for an apartment house, where it should be super cheap luxury drop off + extra 20% discount to a ski pass. Peter has found on the web, but no one has been there at 6.15 so we had a rest in a car. At 7.40 we finally found someone on the staff of the house and he stared at us as if we came from Mars, that he does not know anything about this and the price for 2 nights in a family apartment for 4 people is 250 euro. We said that he came from Mars! Then he called some friends, she had private apartement, but she wanted about 35 euros per person per night. So we gave up the search for a flat and we rushed to get on with gear and to buy a ski pass. A ticket for 3 days is 96 euros, which is not entirely free, but it's acceptable.
On the way up by a tram guys are checking a snow situation and are slightly embarrassed that it was better last year, it was more snow. I also dreamed that it would be a "powder hell", but I thought better this than nothing. Up the mountains the situation became much better, but we still wanted something more. During the first run it was clear that this surface is unstable and immediately I triggered a small avalanche.So I cut a mid-sized powder field, which went all down, but fortunately only about 20-30 cm of fresh powder, but even so warned us that it will go and we have to watch out our back for next couple lines. During the first day of snowfall continued and sometimes it seemed as someone ripped the sky over us. Flakes were already in places as euros. We were riding nice woods, where we did not meet almost anyone. We continued all day with a small break on the excellent goulash soup at a local mountain cottage. In the evening we found an apartment on the farm as pleasant 14 euros and enjoy what comes tomorrow.
When a plow cars ran the morning as crazy, I knew it would be a great powder day. Sometimes they went so often that in our room looked like somewhere at disco, orange everywhere. We eat breakfast packed ourselves to multivan and headed up the hill. On the way up you find that "epic winter" is here and there where something stuck yesterday and now there is nothing. Fairly fell to 60-80 cm and everything completely changed. Gradually, we found that even the snow is stable and so we can ride more steep faces and forests. It was powerful.
Suddenly a bunch of local and freeriders appeared and we were not alone on the face. So we occasionally met someone in forest but is really vast here and not enough of riders. All day we were working hard on the face. In the evening we were hardly able to even get out of the car and everyone mourned for something. Well first powder skiing this season, sore legs, hands and feet ached almost all members of the trip.
Třetí den se říká do třetice všeho dobrého, ale nás už ráno zarazila teplota u statku. Bylo +8°C a trošku jsme to nechápali. Při příjezdu do Tauplitz se teplota změnila na +6°C dole u lanovky a déšť. Chvíli jsem váhali, jestli nestřelíme permice a nepojedeme domů, i když u kasy stáli asi 3 lidi, tak jsem se rozhodli jet nahoru. Už cesta nahoru vyzkoušela naše oblečení. Jediná testem prošla moje nová bunda 3L gore, jinak už nahoře vážílo jen oblečení všech tak 50kg. První jízda po totálně zmoklém prašanu rozhodla o našem odjezdu.
The third day is always critical for the body, but we have stopped in the morning by the temperature at the farm. It was +8 ° C and we did not understand. On arrival in Tauplitz the temperature changed to +6 ° C below the lifts and was raining. We tried up clothes during our way up. The only which passed my test was a new jacket 3L Gore-tex, otherwise the weigh of all the clothes was about 50kg . First ride in a totally wet powder decided on our departure.
Trip was great, two days mega powder. Unfortunately, lately, winters are becoming more erratic and the temperature does what he wants and so the third day was only good for a way home. It certainly was not my last visit at Tauplitz resort. We will discover is a bit more, and will write a guide.
Author: Martin Klika
Photogallery from trip: http://www.powderline.cz/en/galerie/fotogalerie/modrinovy-tauplitz-pred-vanoci/
