http://www.skiingaustria.co.uk/blog Ski holidays in Austria Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:06:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When St Anton am Arlberg has a January snow pack of 5.2m forecast snow is hardly needed - yet the incredible winter of 2012 rolls on. With barely a white patch of mountain but for the glacier areas at the start of December, it has been almost weekly heavy snow ... http://www.skiingaustria.co.uk/blog/more-snow-adding-to-the-5m-in-st-anton/ With blue skies, frigid temperatures and still masses of powder to tackle the conditions in Kitzbuhel today were some of the best that will be found all winter (probably). The snow pack in some areas was really mind blowing and whilst wind has played a role in drifting it into ... http://www.skiingaustria.co.uk/blog/what-a-day-in-kitzbuhel/ So the 5 day storm has basically run out of steam at a time when the snow base at the Galzig mid-station in St Anton is a stunning 5 and a half metres. Little wonder that several of the 5 Arlberg resorts were completely cut off in the last week ... http://www.skiingaustria.co.uk/blog/545cm-snow-depth-st-anton-galzig/ With 120cm of snow already having fallen across Austria since Thursday and with a forecast 80cm of further snow to fall over the coming 2 days, Austria is in the grip of an epic winter storm. Roads and railways have been closed, whole resorts in the Arlberg have been cut ... http://www.skiingaustria.co.uk/blog/austria-in-the-middle-of-a-2m-snow-storm/ After the all too dry autumn, the winter has really arrived in the last month and the snow has been relentless with some great conditions on offer for those skiing or snowboarding in Austria over Christmas / New Year. Already there have been avalanche 4 warnings right across northern and ... http://www.skiingaustria.co.uk/blog/extreme-snow-falls-beginning-across-austria/ When the snow falls it doesn't get much better than pre season skiing. We have spent the last few days on the slopes of the Ski Circus and the snow has been nothing short of perfect. The lift passes are at the much cheaper pre season price, we have not ... http://www.skiingaustria.co.uk/blog/the-joys-of-pre-season-skiing/ With the inaugural Youth Olympic Games all set for January in Innsbruck, Austria there could be some big stars of tomorrow flying the flag for the UK. One of those is freestyle skier Katie Summerhayes from Sheffield, England. Busy in preparation right now we caught up with Katie for a ... http://www.skiingaustria.co.uk/blog/katie-summerhayes-youth-olympic-games-innsbruck-2012/ After the heavy snow of the last few days the Mayrhofen ski area opened today with the Ahorn cable car ferrying skiers and snowboarders up to the fresh powder that has fallen over the last few days. The Penken side of the Mayrhofen ski areas is set to open in ... http://www.skiingaustria.co.uk/blog/mayrhofen-opened-today/ What an amazing day this is  - still fairly green at 8am and now in Saalbach and Kaprun there is a really decent dump. Add that to what the snow cannons have laid down and I think we are going to be good to go. One lift is already ... http://www.skiingaustria.co.uk/blog/we-have-snow-by-the-bucket-load-in-salzburgerland/ After a November that can best be described as mild to reasonably cool, very sunny and very, very dry, then the arrival of December is bringing winter fully back to earth with heavy snow set to hit the west of Austria from this weekend onwards. Records for lack of precipitation ... http://www.skiingaustria.co.uk/blog/december-brings-the-snow/