Obertauern, Austria
Austria’s winter playground
called Obertauern has everything you could imagine for a relaxing but
invigorating break, and the landscapes are simply stunning. You’re poised on
the lip of a dazzling white slope, groomed to perfection overnight and now
awaiting the kiss of your skis. Before you launch yourself into space there’s
just time to take in the scene. The glittering panorama of snow-lathered peaks.
The skaters on the crystal lake far below. The winter-plumed eagle soaring
above.
Obertauern was literally built
for snow, so you can generally ski from your own front door for six months of
the year, making it the snowiest winterskiresort in Austria with a great variety
of runs. You’d want variety, with runs to encourage kids, challenge experts and
provide plenty of choice for those in between. The ideal might be to drop your
resort into a natural bowl in the mountains, surrounded on all sides by slopes
of varying difficulty, plus a plethora of camera-clicking views.
Most years Obertauern’s 26 fast,
modern lifts and gondolas are humming from November until early May as skiers
of all abilities explore more than 60 miles of lovingly manicured runs. They
operate with Teutonic efficiency, and are laid out so that they interconnect
and create the unique Tauernrunde, or Tauern Circuit, enabling you to ski each
route in turn without heading back to base. It’s a bit like a golf course where
each tee is next to the previous green, only better – because you can circulate
in either direction.
There are plenty of facilities
for kids and several ski schools to launch them gently into their first
snowplough, crèches for tots, off-the-slope activities from sports to discos,
and the Bibo Bear Family Ski Park with graded slopes and obstacle courses
designed to nurture on-piste skills. Freestylers flock to the local snowpark,
known as The Spot, with a fine selection of rails, boxes, kickers et al, and
there’s good off-piste skiing if you take an experienced guide. The more
adventurous can have a go at snow biking, or even snow kiting.
Village and mountain offer a
choice good ski and more than 30 restaurants, bars, huts and other après ski spots
offering good food, convivial company and some live entertainment. Several stay
open for night owls, but the resort has been carefully laid out so they don’t
disturb tomorrow’s early risers. Just as though you’d planned it yourself, in
fact. For more information regarding Obertauern, its packages and ski passes do
not hesitate to visit its official website https://www.obertauern.com
and become their fan on Facebook.
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