REALLY bloody cold!

olaola

Just a note to all of you lucky duckies who have still to go on holidays! (I hate you) but a lad is just back from St Anton last night. Said it was Baltic – the condensation on his balaclava froze :eek: They were wearing two jackets, two tops, two thermals. Unreal cold, but great snow! I think it’s set to continue, so a quick heads up if you were humming & hawing over your extra thermals

Fattes

Neoprene face mask = No Freezing

1 Good Base Layer - Skins/ Heli Hansen / Columbia Omni Heat or North Face.

Fleece or a mid layer top,

and a shell

For really cold maybe a down jacket

Kaisr Sose

I can endorse the neoprene face mask as a good barrier in extreme cold, but the masks will freeze if moisture gets in them ( snow, sleet, moisture from breath). Happened to me at -15, with windchill making it -28deg. The mask froze, inside goggles froze -anything where there could be moisture exposed to the element-froze.

Northern Monkey

My cousin was in Kitzbuhel last week and said the same thing -26 during the day and -39 with the wind chill:eek:

Kaisr Sose

Northern Monkey wrote: »

My cousin was in Kitzbuhel last week and said the same thing -26 during the day and -39 with the wind chill:eek:

That's serously cold. Did they enjoy the experience?

Northern Monkey

Kaisr Sose wrote: »

That's serously cold. Did they enjoy the experience?

He said it was the coldest he has ever been in his life, but that the snow was still fantastic.

coddlesangers

Its warming up now, at least in switzerland. Over the last few days I've been in verbier and morzine, it has been no worse than -15 on the slopes, with windchill making it maybe -22. You do need good gear, and the areas that get hit worst are the extremities - I'd recommend glove liners, and of course decent socks. For anyone heading over this week / next week, it will be awesome - fresh snow is coming, temps won't be horrible, and a FANTASTIC base, pretty much everywhere.

neilthefunkeone

Pas de la Casa saturday evening:



Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

ct5amr2ig1nfhp

Definitely warming up a bit in St. Anton this week. Looking at the forecast for the next week, it's not looking near as cold

http://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/St-Anton/6day/mid

Nice bit of snow due over the next day or so too.

RobAMerc

I can confirm it was cold last week.
Was in Garmisch last weekend ( 2nd to 6th ) - my drink froze while I was drinking it and worse still the contents of my nose froze, i.e. when I squeezed my snout it crunched cause of the frozen snot !

langdang

Looks like it's warming up a bit end of this week into next tho?
Well for Czech Republic anyway.

hans aus dtschl

I'm no stranger to cold temperature, but in La Plagne last week we had -23 degrees in town, and well below -30 up top BEFORE wind chill. And it was windy on top of that two of the days.
Drinks froze as you drank them, buff froze solid, we were working to stay warm. Impressively cold.

earlyevening

17 degrees in Les Arcs on Friday (in Bourg St Maurice in the valley). Cold snap definitely over.