January 12, 2007, Sellrain/Tirol/Austria

I teamed up with a friend from Axams near Innsbruck to visit the Sellrain again. The forecast was not too good with a "Föhn" (Windsystem) coming in supposed to collapse during the afternoon. Those systems bring a lot of warm air over the main divide. It caused the cancellation of the ski jump competition the weekend before in Innsbruck.
Anyway we headed out and with all the in bounds powder skiing during the week I hoped ot find some powder. We made good progress but the weather was faster. We changed our aim from the Westlicher Seeblaskogel to the Winnebacher Weißkogel (I was there on december 28th). But when it started to snow with decreasing visibility we skipped the summit and skied down. Compared to last time a lot of the snow was blown away or windpressed. It also had so called "Windgangln". Which are carved out snowplates by the wind. So the skiing was not good at all. I said "Its better than sitting at home" and my friend thought "This skitour has everything to become a classic", bad weather, bad snow, no summit or call it a conditioning outing.