Ski holidays in Austria
The case for suggesting Axamer Lizum, Innsbruck has the best skiing in Austria might be professional suicide – we pride ourselves in offering the very best information we (as a company) can give – to suggest Axamer Lizum ranks with the best skiing in Austria is fanciful. St Anton am Arlberg, Lech am Arlberg, Gerlos, [...]
Trying to open ski holiday resorts officially in November is always subject to the vagaries of weather. For the last few seasons I have watched ski tourers in the Arlberg skiing superb powder whilst the lifts were still several weeks from opening - with such a huge operation as the Arlberg lift system takes careful [...]
One of the themes that we feature on the new Skiing Austria website is the ‘best skiing in Austria’. We think that the best ski holiday resorts in Austria are Lech, St Anton, Stuben, Neustift, Solden, Konigsleiten, Gerlos and Zauchensee. There are some very big names in Austrian skiing clearly missing from this list and [...]
We just had a blog comment from Japan, a hotel owner in Hakuba, Nagano Japan talking about the depth of snow they get in their region. With a top height of less than 2000m we in Europe are conditioned to think that this region in Japan is not snow sure. Well they get 11m of [...]
The Austrian Alps are currently getting hit with the first real snow of the winter and around Innsbruck today there was endless and heavy snowfall. Down in Innsbruck at 575m there was cold air and very heavy rain. The freezing level was around 1200m and for the ski areas of the tirol and the glaciers [...]
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 [...]
St Anton are running a competition for an individual to officially open the ski season 2009/10 with the winner being taken to the top station of the Galzigbahn, served champagne and canapés and then required to make the first descent of the season back to St Anton am Arlberg. This all takes place on the [...]
Season times for the big one - the Arlberg! With a new lift for the St Anton Rendl and a fair bet that the region will get more snow than anywhere else but for Bregenzerwald, then get in some early season action in the Arlberg this winter. For the resorts of Lech, Zürs, St. Anton, [...]
Josh made his first real trips into the heart of Austrian skiing with a day combining visits to St Anton am Arlberg and Ischgl – two of the places he is likely to spend some time if all goes to plan. St Anton was abuzz with work on the new Rendlbahn ski lift and you [...]
I have been in contact today with the Arlberg Bergbahnen and the Apartment La Vita in St Anton and things are moving fast on the new Rendlbahn. The old Rendlbahn that has run since 1974 is now fully demolished and work is underway to build the new base station at the existing bus terminal close [...]