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Old August 26th 03, 10:48 AM
Jonathan Gogan
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Default Why Is Austria Skiing Dirt Cheap For USA Right Now?

you've a handful of stations nearby which are pretty nice. St Anton's not
so
far away for example, you could be there for a week and ski a
different station each day

St Anton is not exactly a 'ski station is it? With its spanking trains and
suburbs (Neiderau etc.) its more like a full on town.
Jon

"Ian Spare" wrote in message
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On 24 Aug 2003 19:09:23 -0700, (svadas) wrote:

I've looked at a map and I think I know where Tyrol is. My question is
if it's worth the trip for 7 nights. In summit county, aka rockies,
where I go a lot we have good snow as the base villages are at 10,000
feet and then the mountains are normally 2-3,000 feet up. Not the
huge mountains I read about in the alps, but that is why I am asking.
If I fly over to the alps, I am going to go over 6 time zones. This
will likely hurt me. My problem in the rockies is normally the
altitude. You can't sleep at that altitude more than a few hours.
But the snow is always good. What could I expect from innsbruck?


I'll have a go if we've all stopped being silly :-) I can't compare
since I've not skied in the US.

I'm not real clear what you're going to be doing, some people
certainly do stay in Innsbruck rather than up the hills in the
stations, rather (I imagine) like staying in Salt Lake City. If you're
with a tour group and/or have access to transport it's not bad, you've
a handful of stations nearby which are pretty nice. St Anton's not so
far away for example, you could be there for a week and ski a
different station each day . And, Innsbruck is a nice town, plenty to
see in the evenings and some nice restaurants. If you're relying on
public transport from Innsbruck to slopes each day, it can certainly
be done, there's buses etc, it'd not be my choice though.

Most people tend to stay in one station or another so if you're doing
that and knew which station it was then I could comment, I'll have
almost certainly been there.

As for height, to be honest I can't think what height Innsbruck is but
the skiing's going to be not more than 2000-3000m.

I think you'd said it was cheap, for the price, it's probably worth
taking a look.

Ian


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