Skiing in Austria in autumn 2011

Skiing in Austria in autumn 2011

Ski resorts in Austria suddenly got a lot of snow for its slopes in September 2011. This fact has allowed many well-known regions of winter recreation announce the opening of the season in September, before the traditional date.

Austria ski glaciers are among those places in Austria, where skiing will be available in September. Skiing on the Stubai glacier will be available from 21 September 2011. From 60 centimeter of snow, which covers the resort 50 centimeters is the snow that had fallen over the past two days.

Pitztal is another ski area in Austria, which will open the season in September. Pitztal promises to open its slopes on September 24, 2011. On some tracks in of the Pitztal valley the snow level exceeds 51 cm. For the fans of early alpine skiing in Austria Pitztal will offer one of the largest and most modern ski lifts in the world - Doppelmeyer. Eight-seat gondola delivers visitors at an altitude of 3440 meters. It is worth noting that Pitztal could operate even without snow, because it has a unique system of snowmaking to cover the tracks even in above-zero temperature.

Pitztal and Stubai were not the first ski resorts in Austria, where the ski season was declared open. It became known about the decision to open tracks on another country’s alpine glacier - Molltal. Here on September 20, 2011 the snow depth was 80 cm, according to theskichannel.com.

Among the regions, which promise early opening of the ski season in Austria, are Sölden, Kitzsteinhorn glacier near Kitzbühel, as well as Tux and Dachstein. Outside Austria early ski season will already be opened in early October at Tignes in France and in Swiss Engelberg.

Ilya Kalachev

Date: 25/09/2011