Day six – Saalbach Ski Trip – Austria
Yuck, a rain day. Absolutely pouring outside…. I hate skiing in the rain.
Decided to dig the car out this morning. Since we parked it on Saturday night it had become buried in around 18 inches of snow. Found the car, got it open and it started first time. We then left the car running as we dug it out. All Hertz had provided in the way of ‘snow/ice’ clearing gear was a small plastic scrapper the size of a two credit cards. Not much use for shifting 18 inches of snow…. Luckily the hotel had some gear (snow-shovel and a broom) that we could borrow.
See, I told you it had snowed!
One nice feature of the Saalbach ski area is a series of cameras on the mountain that give live TV feeds. At present I am sitting in the hotel room, with rain pouring outside in the village and watching how the weather is developing up on the mountains. The cloud base is lifting, and it is snowing at the top of the mountains. There seems to be very few skiers out and a number of lifts are closed. If the cloud bases lifts a little more I may hit the slopes….
Later (actually, the next day): From the TV we could see the cloud base was really lifting so went out for an afternoon of skiing. On the way down from Kohlmaiskopf, at the end of the day, we decided to stop at a number of bars. Turned out to be be a fun way to ski off the mountain, plus the weather was sunny and the slopes were clear. One bar we stopped was called Hinterhagalm, and it appears to be the equivalent of Mooserwirt in St Anton, i.e. the apres ski bar in town.
In town we went to a couple of bars, one at the bottom of the main slopes, and one town centre, before dinner in the hotel. After dinner we went back in to town and visited one of the smallest bars I have ever been to in a ski town… very odd.
One of the main bars in Saalbach
Saalbach, Austria – map it
