Austria

Mayrhofen, Austria 2008 snowboarding holiday

15 January 2008 |

Yes, the site hasn't had alot of updates the past week and the reason for this is that we've been away boarding it up in Austria. We thought this year we would again venture out to a new resort and this time it was the Austrian soil we choose. Our flight landed into InnsBruck just after sunset but during the flight I managed to take a couple of pictures.

Mayrhofen, Austria here we come....

18 November 2007 |

It's booked and paid for, we're off to Mayrhofen in January.  I managed to persuade Sammy to agree to another spontaneous snowboarding holiday and Austria was our chosen destination. Mayrhofen is located 43 miles from Innsbruck and has 146km of pistes split into 40km of blues runs, 86km of red runs and 20km of black runs, the longest run being 9km.  About 30 minutes away you'll find the Hintertux Glacier peaking at 3250 metres. From sources weather can be extreme here going down to a chilling -30 with unpredictable white outs.  However, on a good day the views are meant to be breathtaking. We're...