Ski holidays in Austria
We have seen more calls this year for early season and glacier skiing in Austria. One question always arises – ‘what is it like’? Having skied the glaciers in Austria for 9 years now my experience is a very positive one overall. Personally I like the cold and November into December can be bitingly cold. [...]
Here in Innsbruck the weather has been very wet, windy and for the areas above the freezing level (today that was about 1100m in Innsbruck) there has been big accumulations of snow. Last week there was no snow on the peaks. According to the snow reports the Hintertux Glacier has had a metre of new [...]
So after a mild September in the Alps the weather is changing to bring colder and wet weather to Austria. Snow is forecast for the coming days on the higher ground as well as the glaciers and the snow is forecast through into next week. Temperatures are forecast to be down 10-15 degrees celcius on [...]
I have never quite understood how you can measure the snow depth on a glacier but there are far smarter people than me doing exactly that as the glaciers open for the autumn ski season. Topping the table is the Hintertux Glacier that is open throughout the year with around half a metre of snow, [...]
Morning glacier skiing in Solden is now in operation, the Stubai Glacier has skiing on 2 glaciers, the Kitzsteinhorn Glacier has skiing on the upper slopes, whilst the Hintertux Glacier never closed! We are still awaiting the first big falls of snow for the season but the conditions are still ok to get high up [...]
In October, hen the non-glacier skiing world is trudging the ski shows and thumbing travel brochures, Solden in Austria is already hard into the skiing and snowboarding with season opening festivals and the season opening FIS races of the 09/10 race calendar. 09 to 11 October 2009 there is equipment testing and DJ’s on both [...]
Carrying a back injury for 3 weeks now and exacerbated by some very intense routes in the Krippenstein Freeride Arena over the weekend, I have been off skis for a few days now. Today we had a meeting in Hochsolden and it was my turn to watch from the sidelines – great weather and seemingly [...]