Driving to the Slopes – Austria
Discussion
Morning.
Couple of us are looking into getting away for a few days on the slopes. The proposed location is Soll in Austria as we’ve been (via Air) before, and from memory it’s fairly flat roads & near the motorways.
As I’ll be taking the 1 Series company car (which is poo in the snow) I didn’t want anywhere 50 miles along the side of a crevasse.
So the questions:
• Any kit recommendations, over the legal requirements (chains / hi vis / triangle).
• Expedia only shows a couple of hotel options, any recommendations (just a place for chaps to crash. We don’t need a spa.)
• Any other resort recommendations that shouldn’t cause too much trouble for a crap RWD car.
Any constructive thoughts gratefully received.
Cheers
Couple of us are looking into getting away for a few days on the slopes. The proposed location is Soll in Austria as we’ve been (via Air) before, and from memory it’s fairly flat roads & near the motorways.
As I’ll be taking the 1 Series company car (which is poo in the snow) I didn’t want anywhere 50 miles along the side of a crevasse.
So the questions:
• Any kit recommendations, over the legal requirements (chains / hi vis / triangle).
• Expedia only shows a couple of hotel options, any recommendations (just a place for chaps to crash. We don’t need a spa.)
• Any other resort recommendations that shouldn’t cause too much trouble for a crap RWD car.
Any constructive thoughts gratefully received.
Cheers
There was going to be 3 of us, but I think it may have fallen on its ass for the time being as it looks like the rules on Winter tyres aren't quite as I understood.
From what I've picked up on the web, the crux of it is it’s the responsibility of the driver to ensure that you have suitable winter equipment for the conditions. If they catch you or you have a prang without (in their opinion, taking into account the conditions at the time) the correct equipment your fooked (up to 5,000 fine & worse)
Examples:
If its snow covered, you could use summer tyres with snow chains - no problem.
If its icy or slushy (90% of the time), your not allowed to use the car with snow chains as it buggers up the road surface. But you can't just have a go with summer tyres, so you either wait until the ice / slush clears (April) or hope it snows again.
Anyone have any fist hand knowledge?
From what I've picked up on the web, the crux of it is it’s the responsibility of the driver to ensure that you have suitable winter equipment for the conditions. If they catch you or you have a prang without (in their opinion, taking into account the conditions at the time) the correct equipment your fooked (up to 5,000 fine & worse)
Examples:
If its snow covered, you could use summer tyres with snow chains - no problem.
If its icy or slushy (90% of the time), your not allowed to use the car with snow chains as it buggers up the road surface. But you can't just have a go with summer tyres, so you either wait until the ice / slush clears (April) or hope it snows again.
Anyone have any fist hand knowledge?
Roads to ski resorts will generally be cleared and salt/gritted, especially on the weekends. You're only really in trouble if it's cold and the snow's coming down hard on the day you're arriving or leaving.
Worth picking up a set of autosocks (not just for the trip, but for UK winters like this year) which will work well on snow/ice but can be driven further/faster than chains. You need chains too as (certainly in france, not sure about elsewhere) they're not considered to be an equivalent.
Worth picking up a set of autosocks (not just for the trip, but for UK winters like this year) which will work well on snow/ice but can be driven further/faster than chains. You need chains too as (certainly in france, not sure about elsewhere) they're not considered to be an equivalent.
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