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Where to ski in Germany/Switzerland/Austria
Greetings all. I would like to tap your collective wisdom on this
topic. I am fromAustralia and will have three weeks in Germany from just after Christmas. My list of wishwes includes: reliable snow, german speaking, activities for the kids (4 and 7) apart from skiing (being from Oz we are used to beach and sunburn at christmas), cross country emphasis rather than downhill resort, place where local people go for holidays rather than the trendy apres ski crowd. The area around Zweisal sounds interesting, but I think not high enough for reliable snow, so perhaps the alps would be better. The kids are just beginners, really, but my wife and I like to do simple back country touring, which is easy in Australia as we have little avalanche danger and rolling terrain; I suspect we will be staying to marked routes in Europe. Thanks in advance. |
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Where to ski in Germany/Switzerland/Austria
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wrote: Greetings all. I would like to tap your collective wisdom on this topic. I am fromAustralia and will have three weeks in Germany from just after Christmas. OK. My list of wishes includes: reliable snow, Well, look for glaciers. That will tend to work against your "rather" to trendy. german speaking, Stay East. French areas are fine. French Switzerland is very laid back but cleaner and more efficient than France. But then I work with an office full of French Swiss (nice people). activities for the kids (4 and 7) apart from skiing This will be a complication. (being from Oz we are used to beach and sunburn at christmas), cross country emphasis rather than downhill resort, place where local people go for holidays rather than the trendy apres ski crowd. Well if you really want X-C consider Norway. You give up relability and trendiness. These are the Alps. They do Alpine skiing: ask about X-C in the das Arlberg in Zurs and that whole area of St. Anton (and while they do some of it) they'd look at you crossed eyed. The area around Zweisal sounds interesting, but I think not high enough for reliable snow, so perhaps the alps would be better. The kids are just beginners, really, but my wife and I like to do simple back country touring, which is easy in Australia as we have little avalanche danger and rolling terrain; I suspect we will be staying to marked routes in Europe. Do more reading, I recommend trying Amazon for the Reuters world skiing book (this is an Alpine oriented book but good, there are no X-C equivalents but it does list som eX-C stuff). I'd also suggest other regular travel guides like Tony Wheeler's Lonely Planet series (he was just here Wed. plugging his 2 most recent books). My first 2 Alpine trips each had a week in Zermatt next to the Matterhorn, but the X-C there is limited; but it's the Matterhorn (I did take the train from Visp next to 2 very bored American kids and a friend just did the latest Imax film on the Alps). And use the web, too. The whole area can be a play ground. It's an awesome place and 3 weeks won't be enough. But watch out for avalanches. For just X-C there's St. Moritz and the upper part of the Rhone in what's called the Goms. And actually the Jura on the French-Swiss border has something like a 170 mile X-C tour (less reliable snow). -- |
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