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Ski Free in Kühtai
The Tyrolean ski resort of Kühtai near Innsbruck is offering free ski passes for early season stays. The offer runs from 29 November to 20 December 2019 when from three overnight stays onwards both adults …
Continue readingSölden is Ready for World Cup Skiing
Tens of thousands of fans will celebrate the start of the Alpine ski circus season on 26 and 27 October in the Rettenbach Glacier Stadium. Weeks before the actual race, the international teams are already …
Continue readingWinter in the Tannheim Valley
The Tannheimer Tal in the north of Tyrol has a lot to offer. One author called it the “most beautiful high valley in Europe” and the 16 kilometres long valley is a small but lovely …
Continue readingChristmas in St Anton am Arlberg
St Anton opens its ski season at the beginning of December – and there is plenty going on away from the ski runs during that month. The first advent celebration is on 01 December with …
Continue readingThe Most Expensive Ski Passes in Austria
It’s fine when your favourite ski resort announces the upgrade of that cold long uncomfortable lift in the shade of the mountain. Or when the news breaks of a new link to another ski area, …
Continue readingOktoberfest on the Stubai Glacier
Skiing on the Stubai glacier is already well under way, but the ski resort is celebrating the season with a ‘Weisse Wies’n’ Oktoberfest event on 12 and 13 October. Anyone dressed in the appropriate Wies’n …
Continue readingTake the Tyrol Ski Challenge
Fancy the longest ski slope in Tyrol, a ride on the highest free-floating cable car in Europe – or would you rather take a few turns under floodlights? All those who want to call themselves …
Continue readingA New Gondola Lift in Itter-Hopfgarten
The SkiWelt Hopfgarten-Itter have announced a new lift project in Itter to replace the current Salvista gondola. It is scheduled to go ahead for winter 20/21 so this season will be the last with the …
Continue readingSummer Ski Resorts in Austria
Traditionally one of the big ‘knocks’ on Austrian skiing was that the resorts were in general a lot lower than their French and Swiss rivals. Most experienced skiers know enough to ignore that argument (you …
Continue readingLegendary Austrian Ski Resorts
St. Anton am Arlberg has made a name for itself as the “cradle of skiing”. It was here that the first ski school in the region was founded, run by Hannes Schneider, the inventor of …
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