Skiing early April in Austria?
Skiing early April in Austria?
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waheikedawn

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31 posts

193 months

Monday 28th June 2010
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Looking to book a ski trip for 8-12 to Austria. Limiting factor is that it needs to be school holidays due to teachers, and xmas and Feb half term are out so it has to be the first week of Easter. This has its obvious drawbacks and so would like some help and suggestions of places that are snowsure enough to make skiing/boarding not a problem, lively enough on the apres ski side, and probably in Austria as a change to recent trips to France and Italy.

An initial browse suggests Mayrhofen and maybe Kaprun would be decent options.

Any thoughts?

TIA



Edited by waheikedawn on Monday 28th June 20:03

Silver993tt

9,064 posts

256 months

Monday 28th June 2010
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Ischgl

tango2

428 posts

280 months

Friday 2nd July 2010
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We ski Kaprun each year, and the glacier's going to be fine in early April. Also there's the poss of going to Zell (my favourite blacks are here...) or Saalbach (sp?) depending on the weather and snow conditions. Good restaurants and bar too and a great ski schook if it's needed.

Asterix

24,438 posts

245 months

Saturday 3rd July 2010
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Check out the conditions on the Stubai Glacier.

I used to train there very early season so could be good for late as well.

mr_tony

6,339 posts

286 months

Tuesday 6th July 2010
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St Anton is always good, never been there during a busy week though.

MooseVert!

Chris71

21,548 posts

259 months

Tuesday 6th July 2010
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Most Austrian resorts are very low - you have to be well up the mountain on most to just reach the village height of many of the purpose-built French resorts, so temperatures can be an issue. I'd look for a glacier.

Of the non-glacier resorts we went to Obergurgl (2000m resort height IIRC) in March this year and the snow was still very good, despite much of the drive up from Salzburg being green. It's very quiet for apres ski though.