It’s turning in to a truly epic season in Austria with base depths constantly on the climb as the snow continues to dump down.
Fortunately most Austrian ski areas have not seen quite the extremes of snowfall and gale force winds that resorts further West in the French and Swiss Alps have, but one-the-less some have had to limit the amount of terrain they can open at times and indeed delay opening altogether some days due usually to the strength of the wind.
Die Wettervorhersage fürs Wochenende bringt wieder Schnee. Und allen, die sich zwischendurch mal stärken möchten empfehlen wir einen Einkehrschwung in eine unserer zahlreichen Skihütten… Enjoy!
Posted by Lech Zürs am Arlberg on Thursday, 18 January 2018
Snow depths on the Dachstein glacier have now increased to 5.3m, equalling the deepest in the world at present in Engelberg, Switzerland and bases at Austria’s other glacier ski areas have crept up towards the 4m mark too – the best for many years.
Even non-glacier resorts like St Anton have huge bases – now at 355cm (almost 12 feet) following another 45cm of snowfall in the past few days.
There’s no sign of any let up.
