| St Anton in Austria is a world renowned skiing facility, | | | | and fireworks. This is becoming the new trend in |
| positioned in the belt that is known as Austria's skiing | | | | snowboarding, and what better place to do it, than |
| capital. Only 100 miles from Solden, and with | | | | at St Anton. |
| Innsbruck and Otztal close by, visiting Austria on a | | | | During my trip to St Anton to check-it-out I found |
| skiing vacation could not get any easier, or more | | | | that the hotels around the area were brilliant, making |
| action-packed. The terrain is varied, and offers | | | | it no problem for English speaking holiday makers to |
| excellent opportunities for new skiers, experienced | | | | enjoy themselves. I stayed at a luxury 5 star hotel |
| skiers and even snowboarding - that is on-the-up in | | | | that had an indoor heated swimming pool. The |
| this region. With 2 mountains, and a top of the range | | | | swimming pool peaked out onto the top of a snowy |
| ski lift, skiers have no problems getting from A to B | | | | mountain as you bathed in 40 degrees water. |
| on the 30 000 feet slope. With views looking over | | | | I would have to say that the general feeling around |
| the snowy hills and farmland, it is no wonder the area | | | | the area is amazing, as you sense the genuine desire |
| is a thriving hub for tourists, from around the world. | | | | for skiing shared by everyone who goes along and |
| The terrain is varied, as well as the gradients that | | | | takes part. Before I went I had never been skiing |
| offer great opportunities for high speed, high octane | | | | before, and I found the tuition excellent. They had |
| acceleration, and lesser gradients that assist the new | | | | multi-lingual skiing instructors on hand to try and aid |
| skiers in homing in their skills, 30 000 feet high in the | | | | any new skiers visiting the slopes. I was also taken |
| St Anton mountains. St Anton does not have the | | | | to a specific slope that was built for new-starts, |
| tradition or acclaim that its neighbour Solden has | | | | which also has an easy access point to a lift - perfect |
| managed to gain, however many from around the | | | | for picking that up as well. |
| world still choose St Anton as their preference for an | | | | The area is amazing to look at, and also offers great |
| international skiing vacation. The reasons for this are | | | | entertainment for the non-skier, or skier on a |
| simple - its appeals to a different skiing niche. Whilst | | | | night-off! With clubs, pubs and shops all their to |
| Solden has hosted many world renowned skiing | | | | service the slopes, it is no wonder that the skiing |
| occasions, it has became too commercialised for | | | | facility has three 5 star hotels positioned next to the |
| some skiers who claim the facility has became to | | | | slopes. With all night entertainment within the hotels, |
| simple, and almost too forgiving on certain slopes. | | | | and all-night snowboarding it really is impossible to get |
| With 8 runs and rising, St Anton has failed to give | | | | a minutes rest in St Anton. Should you visit it is said |
| into pressure from around the world, for man-made | | | | that the conditions are best around August, however |
| slaloms, and safety alterations on runs. When you are | | | | that's in the peak of the skiing season, making it |
| skiing on certain sloped in St Anton, you have to | | | | impossible to get moving around the slopes. In order |
| have your wits about you, or something dangerous | | | | to benefit from the best conditions, whilst the slopes |
| could easily happen. The facility has also gained much | | | | are quieter I would say November is the best time. |
| acclaim from adrenaline junkies in the snowboarding | | | | You are also more likely to get discounts from your |
| field, who rank St Anton as being one of the best | | | | travel agent at this time. |
| facilities in the world. St Anton's rise in snowboarding | | | | Learn about weeping mulberry tree and weeping |
| also came as it followed the new trend of offering | | | | norway spruce at the Weeping Trees site. |
| night-time, freestyle snowboarding under flood lights | | | | |