The joys of pre season skiing

When the snow falls it doesn’t get much better than pre season skiing. We have spent the last few days on the slopes of the Ski Circus and the snow has been nothing short of perfect. The lift passes are at the much cheaper pre season price, we have not queued once even at the busiest places and the our favourite seats are free at the mountain huts. The best thing of all has been taking our son who is 7 to snowboard school. Again the prices are lower as its pre season and he signed up for a class that no one else signed up for so he is in a group of 1 which is basically private tuition for the week for the price of a class. High season there would be another 7 kids with him. We have seen this happen in low season Jan with couples turning up for ski school to find they are the only 2 in the class.
We had blizzard conditions here on Saturday and snow each days since. There is also snow forecast until Christmas day including heavy showers. For anyone coming to Austria in the near future I don’t hunk there will be too much of a snow drought. Standing on the top of the mountains you can see a very white Salzburgerland in one direction and a very snowy Tirol in the other.