Ski holidays in Austria
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 big slabs these sections in [...]
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 the coming days. With almost [...]
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 have been smashed in the [...]
After a month-long period of blue skies and sun and a complete lack of rain or snow, the cycle seems headed for a welcome end over the Austrian Alps with snow forecast in Kitzbuhel in the east and Ischgl and St Anton in the west. It hasn’t been the temperatures necessarily over the last month [...]
We have had seen a huge growth in business and corporate trip enquiries in the last few months asking for a wide range of Austrian ski holiday resorts. Initially it was believed there must have been a successful marketing push behind the surge but the range of resorts, dates and industry profiles suggests something more [...]
With the FIS calendar soon to kick off, hospitality and atmosphere on a big scale are descending on the Alps. Things start off for the men in Solden on the weekend of the 22nd-23rd October with the men’s and women’s giant slalom. Solden has huge events going on to mark the FIS season opening and [...]
I have seen it creeping in over the last few years at the Kitzbuhel Hahnenkamm - a more sanitised, safer and less disorderly Kitzbuhel Hahnenkamm race weekend. I started going to the race weekend annually around 10 years and was blown away by the excess, celebration, bravery, setting, atmosphere - it really was an assault [...]
Once again there are big questions being asked of the severity of the Kitzbuhel Hahnenkamm Strief downhill race course after two heavy crashes in the Kitzbuhel Hahnenkamm 2011 race weekend that have left 2 racers hospitalised - one very seriously. A Scott Macartney crash in 2008 raised similar debate over the difficulty of the course [...]
Another day, another Swiss victory in the Kitzbuhel Hahnenkamm men’s downhill and another heavy fall. Today the Italian ski racer Klotz fell from over 4m at high speed and is currently hospitalised in St Johann, who together with the Austrian Grugger who crashed earlier in the week and is set for a long hospital stay [...]
With day time temperatures between -8 and -11c today in Kitzbuhel the race organisers are clearing the light snow from the Streif downhill course in preparation for the greatest ski race in the world, the Kitzbuhel Hahnenkamm men’s downhill. The start bibs have been drawn and these super-human skiers will start in the following order [...]
2 weeks before the epic Kitzbuhel Hahnenkamm downhill on the Streif course, the FIS has validated the course condition with the flagship race, the Men’s downhill set to run on the 22nd January. Following the race will be the customary biggest party in the Alps - tens of thousands international revellers stagger and slide off [...]
I am not the first to ski Kitzbuhel this autumn, the ski lifts at Pass Thurn have been running for a few weeks now but it was my first this season (and to date earliest) in Kitzbuhel. There were plenty of skiers and snowboarders up there and whilst there were just 2 lifts running it [...]
The Kitzbuhel ski area is looking to operate weekend a service on the Fleckalm Gondola from the 13th November. The Fleckalm Gondola leaves from Kirchberg and reaches right into the Kitzbuhel ski area. The Hahnenkamm Gondola leaving Kitzbuhel itself is set to start operating a week later - all depending on snow conditions. Another useful [...]
There has been much talk at home over the last weeks about Kitzbuhel. My wife is deserting me and Josh in a week or so for the Tirolean resort for what is a well deserved break from the two of us. It got us talking about what makes a great destination. One thing that you [...]
Without a single medal from the 2010 Vancouver Olympics the Austrian men’s alpine team would do well to avoid the spot-light for several years after they became the first Austrian men’s alpine team to miss out on a single medal at a modern winter Olympics. Equivalents are hard to come by but not having a [...]