New Year Skiing in Niederau

As does the nasty feet picture award, and the bad taste in music award.

That's it, I'm outta here :evil:

Well... I've only been to Niederau once before, and I really enjoyed it. The instructors were excellent, and everyone was very friendly, not much of a lift queue, and plenty of jagermeister!! My friend has been going there for years, hence she's persuaded me that it will be a good place to go for New Year.

I can't comment on the severity of the blacks and stuff, as i wouldn't class myself a good skier by any means - but certainly from my point of view, there seemed to be plenty of variety, and enough of a challange for beginners and intermediates alike.

You should give it a go for a week, and make up your own mind!!

bandit wrote:That's it, I'm outta here :evil:

You cant give it and not take it, meduck.

Tony_H wrote:

bandit wrote:That's it, I'm outta here :evil:

You cant give it and not take it, meduck.

It's rather offensive to call a person's medical disability nasty. Try living with it.

I predict the readying of Admin's shears... :lol:

skidaddle wrote:I predict the readying of Admin's shears... :lol:

Snip snip... 8)

Oh JulietP, I don't know how the others are containing themselves. Jan, Adele, Hamish, and others, please contain yourselves.

In fact only a small fraction of J2Skiers are positive correspondents about Niederau. I do suspect however, that Niederau is the most mentioned J2Ski resort. Can this be justified. Let us first address your perception of it's severity.

If you believe that Niederau blacks are blue equivalents, then I believe that you are an extreme ace skier, at least wearing international colours.

Most years, in the week before the Kitzbuhle Hahnemkahn rennen, the Austrian ski team train in Niederau, including during his time, Hermann Maier. Last season three national teams trained there, including the Japanese team. A few years ago, the Polish downhill team trained on the Hochberg, and sad to say, one of them was killed, missing a turn, and flying off into the trees.

Yes, I guess Europes ski teams must scour the world looking for testing blue runs???

There are a couple of "black" runs in Zermatt that would scarely be rated as red runs in other resorts. The reason their status is black, is, I suspect, more to do with each area of Zermatt needing to be seen as having the full range of runs. I am not knocking Zermatt.

The blacks at Niederau are not US standard Double diamond, but if you can easily ski the Stuck, under the gondola, then good on you.

Coming on to milage. More years than I care to remember, a couple of us set a record for the downhill milage in a day. Mark Heller, (he of the Heller World Ski Year book), mentioned it in the following years book, as a couple of Lancashire guys having come close to the world day descent figures. In 2001 I clocked 32 runs, which was reckoned to be a modestly good milage. The record now stands at 37 runs, carried out two seasons ago, by two 17 year old Austrian s...s. Have they no respect for their elders?

Then you could tackle the steep runs through the trees. You won't be insured of course. Or the beautiful Katzenberg run to Oberau, a run that I liken to that of Klosters to Davos, The "Erzahts Standard" It is of course, officially closed, er hrmm.

Skiing is only the half of it. The whole Wildscoenau valley is steeped in Tyrol history, has wonderful music, great old pubs, several of the best harp players, some great characters, fabulous old farm buildings, lovely pubs at the mountain tops, great views from the top over the Kitzbuhleralps, and down the Inn valley.

The main ski school is rated second in Europe, (says Jan)

Stop faffing about, just go there.