I understand my basic reports with little detail and not much reference to off piste don’t offer much to you hard core lifetime skiers but you may be amused at the perspective from a gaper from Australia.
We hit the road early from Aosta and dropped the car at Milan on Wednesday. Does anyone else find Italian drivers to be crazy? It was a relief to hand the keys over at Milano central train station. We had a lovely relaxing train trip to Landeck. We stopped for a couple of hours in Bolzano using the handy bagge storage at the train station. Bolzano is a charming little town with Tyrolean architecture. It being part of Austria prior to WW1.
We visited the extremely interesting South Tyrol Museum of Archeology. Its main exhibit is around Otzi the Iceman a 5000 year old mummy that was discovered by hikers in 1991. He was preserved by ice and snow.
We then took the train to our hotel in Landeck.
The hotel offers a private bus service to the nearby resorts but given the overnight snow I opted for an earlier ski bus.
I didn’t take a lot of pictures as I was trying to take advantage of skiing some soft snow for the first time in a couple of weeks.
I mainly skied between the pistes on the roughly 4 inches of new snow.
Ischgl has extremely impressive and efficient lift infrastructure that results in zero lift lines but crowded slopes. We found the crowds disappeared at lunch and didn’t return afterward.
The below pic is of the view down to the resort.
And the view to the ridge above the connected Swiss resort of Samnaun.
And below a few obligatory tourist shots.
^^^
“Ischgl - relax if you can”.
I skied down to town at the end of the day while Kylie took the gondola. There was the expected carnage on the valley run.
I had hoped to witness some tomfoolery that James referred to but at 4.30pm the bars like Schatzi and Niki’s were busy but not obviously cranking.
I typed the majority of this post last night but am at St Anton in gloomy weather right now. We will break from tradition and stay to sample the apres here this afternoon.
We hit the road early from Aosta and dropped the car at Milan on Wednesday. Does anyone else find Italian drivers to be crazy? It was a relief to hand the keys over at Milano central train station. We had a lovely relaxing train trip to Landeck. We stopped for a couple of hours in Bolzano using the handy bagge storage at the train station. Bolzano is a charming little town with Tyrolean architecture. It being part of Austria prior to WW1.
We visited the extremely interesting South Tyrol Museum of Archeology. Its main exhibit is around Otzi the Iceman a 5000 year old mummy that was discovered by hikers in 1991. He was preserved by ice and snow.
We then took the train to our hotel in Landeck.
The hotel offers a private bus service to the nearby resorts but given the overnight snow I opted for an earlier ski bus.
I didn’t take a lot of pictures as I was trying to take advantage of skiing some soft snow for the first time in a couple of weeks.
I mainly skied between the pistes on the roughly 4 inches of new snow.
Ischgl has extremely impressive and efficient lift infrastructure that results in zero lift lines but crowded slopes. We found the crowds disappeared at lunch and didn’t return afterward.
The below pic is of the view down to the resort.
And the view to the ridge above the connected Swiss resort of Samnaun.
And below a few obligatory tourist shots.
^^^
“Ischgl - relax if you can”.
I skied down to town at the end of the day while Kylie took the gondola. There was the expected carnage on the valley run.
I had hoped to witness some tomfoolery that James referred to but at 4.30pm the bars like Schatzi and Niki’s were busy but not obviously cranking.
I typed the majority of this post last night but am at St Anton in gloomy weather right now. We will break from tradition and stay to sample the apres here this afternoon.
