Snow advisory updated Sunday 6th July at 9pm NZ time: Snow developing on Monday for the Victorian Alps and spreading steadily east. Initially snow will only settle above about 1700m but by Tuesday it will fall to resort levels. Moderate to heavy snowfalls then continuing for several more days. Snow showers in New Zealand becoming confined to eastern areas including Mt Ruapehu. On Monday, another cold front crosses the country. Otherwise, fine and frosty weather for most areas until Friday. Avalanche risk on Ruapehu is now rated as extreme. Snow depths are at record levels for the time of year with 5m recorded at Tukino. Check local avalanche advisories before venturing off piste anywhere in NZ this week..

Kitzbühel, Austria

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Kitzbühel (Kitzbuhel) is famous for having one of the most demanding runs of the FIS downhill calender, the Hahnenkamn. Extensive coverage of snow making now compensates for the lowish altitude (Kitzbuhel used to struggle during mild seasons.) 165 km of piste are pitched at the beginner-intermediate but the off-piste and bump skiing is also pretty good. Considerable investment in new lifts has reduced problems with queues. Off the piste, the resort Kitzbühel (Kitzbuhel) is attractive and large enough to provide plenty of interesting diversions for non-skiers. A good choice of hotels, bars and restaurants makes for a great apres-ski environment.

Resorts close to Kitzbühel include: Kirchberg (6 km), Fieberbrunn (8 km), Going (9 km), St Johann in Tirol (9 km), Ellmau (10 km),

	Trails (Pistes): 60	Halfpipes: 1
	Summit: 2000 m	Toplift: m
	Beg: 39% Int: 46% Adv: 15%	Terrain Parks: 1
	Vertical Drop: 1200 m	X-Country: -
	Lifts: 56 (27 quads, 29 surface)	Snowmaking: 25%
	Gondolas / Cable Cars: 5	Slopeside accom.: Y
	Restaurants: 55	Acres of ski: 1400
	Bars: Y	Nearest Airport: Salzburg
	Nearest Train: Kitzbuhel	Info phone : + 0043 5356 777 \| Kitzbühel Resort Info Website

Visitor Reviews of Kitzbühel

Joe M from UNITED KINGDOM writes:

Visited Kitzbuhel for a week from 17-24th March 2007.
Journey is short with only a 1hr 15m trf from Salzburg airport.
The resort has a town feel to it and doesn't have the traditional ski resort feel I've experienced elsewhere. The town doesn't have a great number of restaurants to visit. There are quite a few bars, but they're scattered around, and the apres-ski vibe is pretty non-existant. There is no bar at the bottom of the last run so you have to walk around a bit to find a lively bar.
There's one main gondola to the bottom of the start of the main ski area, and another gondola on the other side of town to take you up to 'the horn' which is a small snowboarder aimed ski area (and the boarder park wasn't open when I visited).
The layout of the piste is awful. Once you reach the top of the main gondola, you're faced with a short walk before you can start skiing. You must then ski down a blue run trail which has around 50m of steep red thrown in - not good for beginners. You get to the bottom of this run and can then start to get to the other pistes. Everything seems very disconnected and difficult to reach, and the maps are unclear. To add to this, the maps show ski lift numbers (e.g. ski lift 4B), but the lifts themselves do not carry this labelling, only an Austrian name! Piste markings are poor, with intermittent labels for run numbers, and no distance markers.
Off-piste is very good, supplemented in part by the poor on-piste layout. We spent almost all our time off-piste.
Overall, the resort is only OK for beginners due to the high number of blue runs offset by the difficultly of finding your way around. Intermediates will probably enjoy it the most, as the red and black runs are not challenging at all and the off-piste can also be easy. Experts will not be very challenged and struggle to find steep runs, well made moguls and tree runs.
Snowboarders (which I'm one of) will again enjoy the off-piste, although this is clearly dependent on the snow conditions (we got lucky...). However, if you like pulling tricks this isn't the place to go as I found very few kickers around the runs, and believe me I looked hard. Also the park was not open, so I can't comment on the park.

2007-03-26

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