Browsing entries tagged with Lech

5 Oct 2016

Arlberg is Austria’s largest ski area

Arlberg is Austria’s largest ski area

A huge investment of over €45 million on four new 10-person gondolas means that the Arlberg, covering the resorts of St Anton, Stuben, Zürs, Lech, Warth and Schröcken, will be the largest lift-linked…

20 Feb 2016

Ski Arlberg to create biggest Austria area

Ski Arlberg to create biggest Austria area

Ski Arlberg in Austria has announced the opening of a new lift that will link Zürs and Stuben and create the largest ski area in Austria. The Flexenbahn gondola is effectively a replacement bus service…

23 Sep 2015

Ski Total launches Pilates weeks in Lech

Ski Total launches Pilates weeks in Lech

Love Pilates and love skiing? Ski Total has launched two dedicated Pilates weeks in the Austrian resort of Lech next February and March, offering guests free classes each day. Pilates is a system of exercises…

9 Jan 2014

Cattle help Lech get ski-ready

Cattle help Lech get ski-ready

The managing director of Lech Ski Lifts has devised a unique way of preparing the slopes for skiing. This autumn, Michael Manhart put 23 Highland cattle out to graze on the slopes of the fashionable Austrian…

18 Dec 2013

Avalanche warnings as Brit teenager dies

Avalanche warnings as Brit teenager dies

A teenager has been killed in an avalanche in the ski resort of Lech, amid warnings from experts that the Alps are about to experience the most unstable snowpack in nearly 20 years. The unnamed 16-year-old…

17 Dec 2013

Great new link from Lech to Warth

Great new link from Lech to Warth

Most keen skiers have heard of Lech and Zürs, the most fashionable resorts in Austria. But few have heard of Warth or Schröcken in the next valley – but the ski area these two resorts share gets more…

19 Feb 2013

New lift links Lech and Warth-Schröcken

New lift links Lech and Warth-Schröcken

A new 2km long gondola will link two of the snowiest ski resorts in Alps next season, Lech-Zürs and Warth-Schröcken in Austria. The Arlberg ski area, which takes in the resorts of Lech, St Anton, St…

14 Apr 2011

Snow falls for Austria and Switzerland

Snow falls for Austria and Switzerland

Somewhat of a transformation for a good few resorts on Wednesday 13 April, with a sudden switch from high temperatures and sunny skies to much cooler conditions and showers – first as rain, then turning…

3 Mar 2011

Lech lift breakdown forces skiers onto worn route

Lech lift breakdown forces skiers onto worn route

Skiers and boarders were forced to use a worn and narrow ski route on Thursday 3 March, when a key chairlift above Lech, Austria, broke down. Novices, children and others (including ourselves, skiing the…

21 Jan 2011

Latest from Lech ...

Latest from Lech ...

If you are wondering about the lack of snowfall recently, these pictures from Lech in Austria this morning (Friday 21 January) might cheer you up – sent to us by Moira Clarke of Ski Total / Esprit…

2 Aug 2010

Iron people watch over Lech

Iron people watch over Lech

Lech has some new residents to oversee the ski area next winter: 100 life-size human sculptures, standing tall near the lifts and slopes of Austria’s premier resort. The eerie spectacle is the work…

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