Huge powder weekend in Innsbruck

Great powder skiing both north and south of Innsbruck - image © skiingaustria.co.uk

With intermittent snow during the whole of last week, conditions cleared over the weekend and there was outstanding powder skiing in the Innsbruck ski region. I did not ski Nordpark but my friend weatherman Flo did and he reported late Friday afternoon that there were banks of snow chest deep beneath the Seegrube. One downside was the high avalanche danger that meant the top section around the Hafelekar was closed. This section offers the best steep skiing in the region and on powder days it is a crazy fight to get on the cable car – not so over the weekend though as the best that was available were views from afar. The smart skiers and boarders were over at Axamer Lizum though and whilst the northern mountains certainly got the best of the recent snow falls, Axamer Lizum still boasted over 30cm of new snow and offered superb powder skiing all weekend. There was also the small matter of the opening of the Skigloo retreat that we have built deep in the woods of Axamer Lizum. The Skigloo is an igloo built by hand and is a wonderful retreat for skiers and boarders to enjoy the superb surroundings after a day on the mountains. Festivities lasted into well after dark and there are several sore heads in the Innsbruck valley today.

The Skigloo retreat high above Innsbruck – image © skiingaustria.co.uk