Today we find out about SkiWelt Wilder Kaiser-Brixental in Tirol, plus we look at a new women only ski touring to Iceland
We also have snow reports from the opening day of the season in Verbier and Sunshine Valley – the first ski resort to open in Canada.
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Tirol in Austria sponsors The Ski Podcast, which means that this winter we’ll be able to find out more about some of the great destinations in Tirol, and how you can connect with ‘
Lebensgefühl’ - the wonderful ‘feeling of life’ you can find there.
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SHOW NOTES
Nickie Mabey is founder of Mabey Ski (1:45)
Rob Rees reported on Slovenia in Episode 207 (3:00)
Listen to
Episode 186 for tips on autumn skiing in Austria (5:45)
Robin Shah reported from Verbier (6:00)
Check out Xavier De La Rue’s
Insta from opening weekend (7:45)
Kendra Scurfield reported from Sunshine Valley in Canada (8:20)
In
Episode 219, Laax was strongly linked as possible acquisition by Vail Resorts (11:00)
Laax has now
bought its own lifts as defensive measure (11:15)
Where is SkiWelt Wilder Kaiser-Brixental (12:15)
How
to get to SkiWelt (12:30)
It’s easy to travel to
by train – there is a Nightjet package (13:00)
There are 275km pistes and over 80 lifts (14:00)
Ski resorts in the SkiWelt include Brixen im Thale, Ellmau, Going, Hopfgarten, Itter, Scheffau, Söll and Westendorf
The SkiWelt region was created in 1977 (14:45)
You can ski the
SkiWelt Tour circuit (15:45)
Children up to the age of 15 get free lift tickets in low season (16:45)
Another great idea is the
Young Family Ski Pass
SkiWelt uses 100% green electricity from hydro power (17:45)
There are over 80
mountain huts in the SkiWelt (18:30)
Austria's highest revolving restaurant is at the Hohe Salve (19:00)
In Episode 256 Betony Garner told us about her all female ski touring trip to Tromso (22:00)
Nickie’s connection to skiing
goes back to 1912 (22:30)
She founded Mabey Ski in 2017 (25:00)
Maybe Ski is putting on a women’s only
ski touring tripto Iceland (25:30)
Sara Sigurdardottir is an Icelandair pilot (26:00)
The Troll Peninsula (27:30)
Iceland is famous for its geothermal pools (29:30)
Feedback (31:45)
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Immanuel John:
“Loved the Innsbruck in Tirol episode”
Matt Hayes:
“Keep up the great work on the podcast”
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