Welcome, snowfiends, to the first of this season’s Thursday snow reports. We’re switching today to our twice-weekly service, because – suddenly – the ski season is bursting into life...
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The central Planai ski area is reached by a gondola that rises from the edge of Schladming. Alternatively, you can drive up an all-weather road to a car park just below the mid-station. A network of...
Schladming centre has a good choice of three- and four-star hotels, but the quiet surrounding villages of Haus, Pichl, Rohrmoos, and Ramsau provide the better budget choices. The four-stars in...
Schladming has ‘the normal lively bars, but there’s not enough going on for a young group where apres comes first,’ commented a reporter, and ‘the nightlife was more than adequate for a geriatric...
The excellent Schladming ski schools meet at Rohrmoos, and the Planai nursery slopes are well-organised with several gentle blue runs. The lower slopes of Rohrmoos are also well suited to learners...
Schladming has an abundance of friendly huts – over 40 of them – scattered across the mountainside. Seiterhutte is a traditional wooden chalet with a glass and aluminium extension. It serves...
Fellow snowfiends, a word of warning; if you’re pining for the white stuff, LOOK AWAY NOW. The latest videos from Sunshine Village and Lake Louise – in Banff National Park, Canada – are going...
Welcome, snowfiends, to a bonus Friday-morning Snow Report! Why? Because we want to celebrate the fact that the ski world is taking four big steps towards winter this weekend. 1. Double M opens...
“Where is best and the most enjoyable ski slope in the whole of France?” we asked Chamonix mountain guide Yves Detry. Yves knows a thing or two about skiing the deep and steep – he was the first man...
November has got off to a cracking start in the Alps – with fresh snow across almost the entire region, and more promised in the Alpine snow forecast tonight and tomorrow. That said, it’s not...
