 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi all me and the other half looking to go ski ing in the new year and thinking about the above.... She is a third week nervous blue piste ski ier yet to experience a drag lift!! But competent enought to ski wide cruisy blue runs...
So out of the two resorts which would be the best suited... Or indeed any other resorts that fit the bill...thanks all in advance
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Saalbach has everything you need with hardly any drag lifts. There are lots of blue runs and you can get to most of the area without doing a red. We went to Zell am See for a day and I found it one of the worst days skiing I ever had.
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Thank you so much for taking the time to reply.... Lets see if others agree or not, I appreciate your input thanks
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Zell has limited blue runs and those that are tend to be busy. Resort runs are all steep and not suited to timid skiers but of course there is always the gondola down.
For me the ski welt offers good cruisy terrain with Ellmau one of my favourites. Niederau another option particularly now the ski area is linked to Alpbach.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Saalbach wins
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Anticlockwise ...
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Saalbach, though maybe more specifically Hinterglemm - IMHO, has the gentler blues requested.
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| moffatross wrote: |
Anticlockwise ...
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I believe this has been replaced with a chair lift now (if not, it's definitely scheduled to be replaced).
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It's actually a good design, it moves a lot of people and even in its unideal downhill stretch through the middle, the skier is effectively managed from travelling too far ahead of the hang bar. Scottish skiers notice these niceties. 
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| clarky999 wrote: |
I believe this has been replaced with a chair lift now (if not, it's definitely scheduled to be replaced). |
No, not yet; maybe next year. The replacement for the Rosswaldbahn is the only new lift in Saalbach-Hinterglemm this year (I think).
But the Bernkogel T-bars are good to practise on - long but relatively flat.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| espri wrote: |
But the Bernkogel T-bars are good to practise on - long but relatively flat. |
Yup - take a good book...
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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This T-bar is the only one left on the main S-H circuit - the Rosswald T-bar has been replaced by a 6-seater chair during the summer. Otherwise, the circuit anti-clockwise can be skied entirely on cruisy blues. Clockwise there are a couple of fairly easy reds around the Schattberg Sprinter and Westgipfel. The route to Leogang has one red bit at the top of the Polten lift - actually just a couple of turns then it flattens out - and one short red stretch on the way back. And then there is the long, empty blue from Polten to Viehofen via the Hecherhutte (with a compulsory stop for the valley's best gulasch suppe).
To answer the OP - Zell am See is good, with an attractive lake and town centre as well as easy pistes, but the skiing in Saalbach-Hinterglemm is bigger and better, as is the après.
Last edited by And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports. on Fri 27-09-13 15:38; edited 1 time in total
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| quinton wrote: |
| Otherwise, the circuit anti-clockwise can be skied entirely on cruisy blues. Clockwise there are a couple of fairly easy reds around the Schattberg Sprinter and Westgipfel. |
I wouldn't have described the run down from the Schattberg Westgipfel (7) as a cruisy blue, though the piste is blue on the map. And a few other sections are moderately steep - all in the eyes of the beholder 
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You know it makes sense.
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Thank you all... Seems Saalbach is winning the race at the mo..
Thanks all again for the info, much appreciated
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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kabby,
I have a place at Zell but have to agree that for pure skiing experience (and blue runs) S-H has a lot more to offer. If your other half wants to spend part of the day away from the slopes, however, Zell is better in that it is a great little town with a picturesque lake. The skiing in Zell might be limited but don't let comments here make you think it is bad - far from it! Though if you are going during school holidays the blues do get busy.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Having been to both I'd say Saalbach as well. I don't remember there being many easy runs in Zell and although beautiful, it's quite limited.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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One of the local hoteliers (who is usually an authorative source of information) told me earlier this year that the long Bernkogel T-bar was scheduled to be replaced this summer by a chair lift, and that a new restaurant was to be built somewhere opposite the Baernalm at the mid-station. For some reason this didn't happen, but I would be surprised if it doesn't next summer. Apparently the stumbling block had been the reluctance of the people who own the land (and the Baernalm) to sanction anything that might hasten skiers on their way over to Hinterglemm, or, to put it another way, that might discourage skiers from lingering on the Bernkogel. I was given to understand that this problem has now been overcome (perhaps planning permission for another restaurant may have been a sweetener, although that is speculation on my part).
Cacciatore, If I were a "third week nervous blue piste skier", wishing to ski easily down to the resort, I think I'd rather be on the Kohlmais and Bernkogel than the slopes immediately surrounding Hinterglemm, although both villages have plenty of cruisy, blue skiing higher up. The Viehhofen run is a particular, confidence-building delight, also the blue run down to Saalbach from the Wildenkarkogel (both 7km in length). However it is to some extent subjective, and I realise that, in forming your opinion, you may be taking some account of the presence or absence of extramural bovine scenery and/or entertainment.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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