Ski holidays in Austria
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 short online Q&A to get [...]
After the big snow of the last week in Austria the sun has been here for the last 2 days and the skiing has been epic. There will be a lot of tracks in a lot of off-piste areas by now but today was a day to be a piste skier in the ski holiday [...]
A leisurely day in the ski holiday resort of Kuhtai today is to be followed by anything but in the mega ski and apres ski resort of Ischgl tomorrow. I was up in Kuhtai with my family today for a winter walk and toboggan - in between squeezing in some serious mountain food and watching [...]
Families and locals were in the ascendency in Hochoetz today. The resort is at the head of the mighty Oetztal valley and shares a ski pass with Kuhtai and as alluded to, is popular with families and locals. Fresh snow and dark skies in the last few days broke today to offer beautiful blue skies [...]
After the recent days of low clouds and snow here in the Tirol the skies cleared today to give a top ski day. There was powder skiing in Kuhtai, south of Innsbruck and the frigid temperatures at 2000m+ were sufficient to keep the snow in great condition. Plenty of families were on the slopes today [...]
The last week has been a tough one with cold as well a virus whish is running wild in Innsbruck knocking me flat for a few days. So much so that my only adventures on the snow have been on a rodel (toboggan) in the last week. Plenty on new snow over the last few [...]
The Tirol Snow Card - 1 Ski pass, 77 Ski areas, 923 Lifts, 3105 kms of piste, valid between 01/10/09 and 15/05/10 - €590
So 4 days in a snow dome or unlimited access to these areas for 7 months:
Alpbacher Bergbahnen, Axamer Lizum, Bergbahn Kitzbühel, Bergbahn Pillersee, Bergbahnen Fendels, Bergbahnen Fieberbrunn, Bergbahnen Fiss/Ladis, Bergbahnen Kappl, Bergbahnen [...]