Lars Oelmann
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PowderAlert 9 2023/24 | Southern Comfort
Lars Oelmann • 02/21/2024When Ullr takes a rest from work in the evening, he treats himself and us to a Southern Comfort, because he feels at home in the Dolce Vita and invites us to take another trip to the Southern Alps. -
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PowderAlert 8 2023/24 | Light at the end of the tunnel
Lars Oelmann • 02/08/2024It's been a long, long time since the last alert. Unfortunately, the oracle in the last issue of PowderAlert was right: nothing happened before the beginning of February. And now it's almost the middle of February! -
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PowderAlert 7 2023/24 | Better than nothing.
Lars Oelmann • 01/16/2024An alert appears, but the outlook is rather mediocre. Of course, an alert is always better than no alert, but with this one, the snow line is a bit of a bitch and the outlook after the weekend is also rather poor. -
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PowderAlert 6 2023/24 | Back to normal
Lars Oelmann • 01/05/2024After December was characterised by a succession of snowfalls from the west to south-west until the end of December, and accordingly warm, and even January started like this, we are now returning to normality and slowly having to say goodbye to the record snow depths at altitude, but also to the lack of snow below 1500m. Thank Ullr, because the valleys between 1000-1500m are still feeding off their early-season cushion and below 1200-1400m there is hardly anything possible away from the artificial snow. -
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PowderAlert 5 2023/24 | Christmas dump, Christmas dump!
Lars Oelmann • 12/20/2023Ullr gets on his sledge and off we go for the Christmas dump. Well, except for the unfortunate ones who have to make their family visits out of the reach of the Alps, but even then they can really step on the gas again on the 22nd/23rd, if the resorts open up and you can get there at all. -
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PowderAlert 4 2023/24 | Warm shower, hot tears.
Lars Oelmann • 12/10/2023What sounds like an erotic film from the 70s filmed with soft focus, which you used to be able to marvel at on linear television on private channels, is unfortunately the current reality, because even if Ullr sends us even more precipitation to our record-breaking base above 2000m, the inclined freerider will cry hot tears for the melted snow in the middle altitudes. -
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PowderAlert 3 2023/24 | High winter during early winter!
Lars Oelmann • 11/29/2023For the first time in years, ski resorts are opening earlier instead of later, there's more snow than at the beginning of March last season and it's cold too. Can it get any better? Yes and no. -
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PowderAlert 2 2023/24 | When it's on then it's on
Lars Oelmann • 11/27/2023You know it from soccer (that's the sport without skis that many people supposedly think is great. I once saw it on TV!), if a team somehow always gets everything right, or you always ski the right line on the same day, then that's a run. -
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PowderAlert 1 2023/24 | Come to stay!
Lars Oelmann • 11/24/2023They have all come to stay. -
safety topics
Thoughts on the death of Tof Henry
Lars Oelmann • 10/18/2023Tof Henry, freeride pro from Chamonix, and Chilean mountain guide Juan Señoret died on 11 October while climbing the Puntiagudo volcano in Chile. Henry was known for his spectacular ascents of the classic and less classic steep faces around Chamonix. He brought the "freeride style" to the ice walls and made big turns at high speed where others jumped over. Tof Henry was 38 years old and is survived by his son. -
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PowderAlert 12 2022/23 | One Last Dance with Ullr!
Lars Oelmann • 04/13/2023I actually wanted to write something about a "last hallali" or "Ullr's last attack", but martial war and hunting metaphors somehow have a stale aftertaste after the last year. -
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PowderAlert 11 2022/23 | A dump, not a joke!
Lars Oelmann • 03/30/2023Just in time for the end of the season and the first of April, Ullr proves to have a special sense of humor and sends us another alarm. One wonders why he wasn't able to increase the frequency of alerts three months ago, but Ullr's disciples are patient and happy for any blessing.