This year we returned to Austria for another weekend of skiing. It was so great last year we just had to go again. This time we chose a different area though and skied at Ischgl on Saturday and See on Sunday. You can pretty much drive along any valley in the Alps and every single town you drive through has a ski lift going up into the mountains with a few runs at the top of it. Some are bigger resorts and some only have 1-2 lifts. In our case, Ischgl was a bigger resort and See had 4 lifts, one of which was the gondola up from the bottom and another was a pulley lift which I don't really count.
We had a gorgeous sunny day in Ischgl. The fun thing about Ischgl is that it has 44 lifts! In a relatively small amount of space. So they crisscross and run all over the place and it's horribly confusing but you can pretty much get on any of them and be someplace with an easy or medium trail. And a lot of the lifts hold 8 people per chair so we never saw a single lift line though the resort wasn't all that crowded to begin with. It was really nice. Below are pictures from Ischgl, starting with pictures of myself and Martin with some mountains.
Here's our friend Kara taking a picture down the slope. Her and her husband Eric came with us from Germany for the weekend.
On Sunday we woke up to snow on the ground and snow falling from the sky so we decided to stay closer to our hotel and ski at See. It was cloudy and snowy but the powder was great and it's been years and years since I've snowboarded in fresh powder so it was nice. Then after lunch the sun came out and it was the most beautiful day:
Our friend Eric took this great pic of us:
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We had some amazing tomato soup with cream and chives on top of it. And crispy croutons floating in it too. We bought pretzels to go with it (we are near Germany, after all) and they went surprisingly well with tomato soup. I think it was just the salt though. :) I highly recommend the soup at See!
Look at how gorgeous the afternoon was!
That's right I took the gondola back down to the bottom. Dealing with powder is tiring!
Here's Kara cleaning off our car to leave on Monday morning. Looks like we only got about 4-6" Sunday night (I had cleaned 4-6" off Sunday evening from the snow on Sunday morning) but it was still snowing heavily when we left. It was nice to see some snow! Apparently the Pfalz isn't going to have winter this year.
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