Ski holidays in Austria
As the sunny conditions persist in Austria we are in the traditional snow season in this part of the Alps. Snow may arrive in a few days and later in the week but the huge dumps of snow that Austria is so well known for at this time of the year are not yet visible [...]
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 [...]
Snow yesterday, over night and today in Ischgl has provided some great power skiing conditions. Earlier this week (and despite a couple of weeks without snow) the pistes in Ischgl were surprisingly impressive with little ice and some great piste skiing on offer. Off-piste on Monday and Tuesday was not worth tackling due to the [...]
After the 5th or so visit to Obergurgl some winters ago I started to think that I kept striking it lucky with the skies and light in Obergurgl offering incredible photographic conditions. To be honest there are more feature rich mountain scapes all over the Alps - Obergurgl is high and stark with stupendous views [...]
Not my most active on the mountain today but great all the same in Mutters, above Innsbruck. The Mutters ski area is really popular with local families from Innsbruck and offers modern facilities and easy skiing. Today and for the last few weeks it has also been offering great early season snow. I still haven’t [...]
The weather charts are looking fantastically good for the coming week in the Tirol - 6 days of snow are forecast. Not entirely needed as the slopes resorts here are deep in snow but it is all welcome. But not great for the avalanche conditions with bulletins suggesting slab avalanches are likely this week on [...]
Mid week at this time of the year really throws up some great skiing and snowboarding. The slopes and off-piste are often nearly deserted with very few holidaying at this stage of the winter. The results can be epic conditions. Fresh snow overnight brought around 20cm of new snow to Axamer Lizum and were it [...]
Just back from St Anton where the season opening weekend brought grey skies and intermittent snow today after the epic conditions of yesterday. There were some forlorn looking people in the restaurant I visited today who were talking about the night before - St Anton parties pretty hard and the season opening party is a [...]
I am running short of superlatives to describe the start to this winter season. First the glaciers got hammered with snow from the beginning of September onwards and then the non-glacier resort over here in Austria, right on cue get cold temperatures and persistent snow that broke today to usher in winter 2010/11 in Axamer [...]
I was in Leutasch / Seefeld today visiting a friend when the radio reported that the Otztal had a metre of new snow over the last day or so. That is almost too much to ski but you would surely give it a mighty good go
The central and southern alps in Austria are [...]
Lots of snow coming down right now in Tirol with the snow level down to 800m around Innsbruck. I didn’t manage to get up to Obergurgl today but maybe on the weekend for some of their opening weekend events and some skiing in blizzard conditions! Yes the snow is set to fall all today with [...]
Early season continues to offer some great snow conditions - the skies cleared today after a couple of days of snow and there was around 15cm of new snow at the base-station in Axamer Lizum. More fell on the peak but at the base-station the snow was heavy with sleet partly falling at that altitude. [...]
Today was a very good day to be a skier or snowboarder on the Pitztal Glacier, Austria. The highest ski lift in Austria at 3440m coupled with new snow and sunny, cold conditions meant the skiing on the Pitztal Glacier was some of the best of the season so far. The overnight [...]
The mild and dry spell is behind us and there has been a good dump of snow in the Innsbruck area and further afield in Austria. I was up at Axamer Lizum today to check out the snow and there we had around 40cm of new snow by this afternoon with more forecast overnight and [...]
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 [...]