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The Zillertal Arena is a winter sports area and the largest ski area in the Zillertal valley in Austria. It has 163 kilometres of piste and 50 lifts that can transport 76,000 people every hour. It consists of two parts: one with valley lifts from Zell, Gerlos and Königsleiten and anothern with valley lifts from Ramsau and Hainzenberg.
Ski resorts are often combined with other winter sports facilities, such as cross-country trails, toboggan runs or thermal spas. There are also some glacier ski resorts in Austria, which essentially offer year-round winter sports regardless of snow conditions. Some of Austria's ski resorts repeatedly host World Cup races.
Mayrhofen Harakiri-Piste. The Harakiri is a slope in the ski resort of Mayrhofen Ski Zillertal 3000. It is named after the Japanese vulgar term for seppuku, ritual suicide by samurai. With incline of up to 78% (38 degrees), vertical drop of 375 metres and a length of about 1500 metres, it is the steepest groomed slope in Austria. Thus the slope ...
There are many snow ski areas and resorts around the world. At least 68 nations host snow-covered outdoor ski areas. [1] Indoor skiing on snow is available in more than 30 nations, including Egypt and UAE.
The railway runs between Jenbach and Mayrhofen itself, and there are several intermediate stations, which provide access to many of the valley's well known ski areas, namely Zell am Ziller (Zillertal 3000), Fügen (Spieljoch) and Uderns (for the Hochfügen and Kaltenbach ski areas). The railway operates year-round, although in summer additional ...
Morzine: 22 ski lifts, 34 ski slopes (45 km), 40 km of cross-country skiing; Orange: 3 ski lifts, 5 ski slopes, 14 km of cross-country skiing; Passy: 6 ski lifts, 6 ski slopes (12 km), 12 km of cross-country skiing; Plaines-Joux: 40 km of cross-country skiing; Praz de Lys: 23 ski lifts, 41 ski slopes (40 km), 60 km of cross-country skiing
Uderns in the Ziller Valley. The Ziller Valley [1] [2] [3] (German: Zillertal) is a valley in Tyrol, Austria that is drained by the Ziller River. It is the widest valley south of the Inn Valley (German: Inntal) and lends its name to the Zillertal Alps, the strongly glaciated section of the Alps in which it lies. [4]
Name Resorts Base elevation (m) Summit elevation (m) Vertical drop (m) Lifts 1 Ski pistes km Website Gstaad Mountain Rides: Gstaad: 1050: 2971 1921: 69: 250