Browsing entries tagged with Lech
8 Aug 2019
Crystal Ski Holidays has added a new flight route to Memmingen Airport in Germany for this winter, in response to a growing number of skiers wanting to head to nearby Austria for their holiday. Flights…
5 Oct 2016
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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