I didn’t notice when friends had their stag night there a few years ago 
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But now we wonder what kind of magazine’s N210FK_C10T is reading 
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Peter, have you been having lessons for your skiing?
I guess there are some bad feelings from Peter towards myself, as I recommended Schmittenhöhe to him. However, my wife really enjoyed skiing there, and back then she was a beginner and took lessons each morning.
IME, skiing is something you definitely cannot learn by yourself. I mean, who would attempt to teach himself to fly on his own (apart from this guy)? And skiing is in terms of motor skills way more demanding than flying, especially if you start out later in life.
Peter, have you been having lessons for your skiing?
Yes, 3 lots. 1xUK, 2xAustria.
there are some bad feelings from Peter towards myself
Not at all! I totally forgot you mentioned Schmittenhöhe, Blueline. Actually the recommendations for the Zell area came from others (not posting here) some time earlier. Two very specifically said there are beginner slopes there. Well, there are the little kids’ areas, everywhere, where you get a 1 min run downhill and then a 20 minute wait while the instructors push a load of kids past the lift queue I did 2 days of that at Filzmoos, with an instructor too, and that was good but it’s not much fun. The best to date by far was Grand Bornard (I posted my funny handheld camera video) and I will probably go back there – unless I can get specific feedback on some other place.
I actually now doubt the Swiss or Austrian Alps have any long + easy runs, because I asked several instructors and other long-term skiers and they all said one goes to France for that.
I was keen to check out Zell because it’s a 10/10 scenic flight (I will upload a video tomorrow; I have exceeded my Vimeo upload allowance for this week) and a really nice airport to fly into; very friendly manager too. The other really nice one is Lausanne and that, together with various French places like Annecy and Annemasse, is say 1hr from a whole load of places.
Sure most people want to go fast downhill but then most people either have been doing it since they were tiny or they swell the number of the empty seats on the return flights because they are in hospital At Filzmoos – a small place – there was at least one serious one every day. I learnt at 58 so have to set different limits.
I don’t want to get this too off-topic but I mentioned the issue myself, so let me give this example:
The piste map here shows this
Run 7 is a blue run. It was actually really easy, 5-10 mins in the woods, but here is the last bit of it:
That is a good 30-40 degrees. A blue run? Obviously some here will ski that with their eyes shut but if you end up too fast down that, you will end up in the building which the ski lift runs from. There is no room to slow down. I took off the skis and walked down. It’s like in another place I went to (Axamer Lisum) where a kids’ slope had a 2m deep ditch at the bottom, filled with rocks. I am not doing that…
In fact the whole snow area in the photo is a blue run. Clearly, as so rightly pointed out earlier, “blue” covers a lot of stuff, for business reasons.
is also the preferred resort for swingers
We could do a EuroGA fly-in
However I would have thought that the internet would have taken over the “special interest activities” such as that
Silvaire
I was with my current wife… I’m still looking for my next one :)
Here is a video of the flight to Zell am See and back, with a bit from the mountain in the middle
I was skiing in Hinterglemm in January. It is one of the best skiing areas and a nice little town. Everything within walking distance (or use 12er Express, a sole “transfer” gondola). Our hotel was next to 12erKogelbahn and we walked easily to/from “Goaßstall” for “evening activities” aka aprés ski ;)
Best bet is probably to fly to SZG and get a bus/rental car there.
Alternates: Schladming (VFR LOGO) IFR LOWG.
We could plan a euroga Ski-in someday?
Happy skiing!
Thanks for the feedback
The original fly to ski thread is here. Unfortunately there was almost zero interest in a meet-up. The few people I came across who do it were advanced skiers and mostly they did it as day trips, from southern Germany, mostly to Zell or St Johann. There was a lot of “talk the talk” too
This winter, my plan is to do 3-4 trips, perhaps 2 by airline with Justine and 1 or 2 by TB20 for which the current best location is Bolzano (to Madonna) but that could change depending on whether the other two turn out nice; they are currently Hinterglemm (doable from Zell, or Salzburg but that has various parking issues discussed further back) and Cervinia. I am currently checking out whether these two are any good for her; Madonna was the best skiing for me but pretty dead otherwise.
Not firsthand info:
For blue slopes take a look at Silvretta Montafon (1 hour from ACH Altenrhein) and Alta Badia (BZO Bolzano).
