 Poster: A snowHead
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Wise SH's I need educating on Austria. If I was to go over Xmas week which resorts would be best for snow cover (providing it snows). I have always looked at France but should really open my search up.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Obergurgl is usually good at Christmas.
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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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Lech;
Obergurgl;
Hintertux.
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@chrisrawles, ischgl is also a great spot, as snow sure as anywhere and if you like to party hard, there's nowhere better IMO.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@chrisrawles, Zurs, defo!! Some quality hotels with half decent champagne bars if the snow sucks.
If Zurs is a tad pricey look to stay in Stuben or St Christoph, but still ski over to Zurs/Lech. Probably just next door to the best snowfall depths in the Alps - Warth. 
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@chrisrawles, trust you have very deep pockets for the recommendations thus far. If you are talking about Xmas this year then you have very little prospect of finding anything in Lech and I have never been able to find accommodation in obergurgl when I want to go.
Other options although limited accommodation would be Stubai Gleischer, Sölden and possibly Zell/ Kaprun. All have access to glaciers.
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If you don't have as deep pockets for the above, the Salzburgerland ski resorts while not high provide good skiing. Even if natural snow cover is questionable they do a great job of having enough skiable. Saalbach, Flachau, Wagrain, Zauchensee or Schladming (technically just outside Salzburgerland!).
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Lech was one of few villages in all of the Alps that was white last two horrible christmases. And it is a pretty village on top of that.
But indeed (and logically) there is only limited choice available.
Still it is worth to try.
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Left field suggestion: Obertauern. High village, a lot of ski in/ski out accommodation and excellent snow record. I can recommend Hotel Marietta.
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I've skied Ski Amade many times early season with the snow cannons providing great pistes next to green fields and forests 
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Cheers all I will have a look and also wait to see what mother natures throws at us this year
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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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Mayrhofen? The Hintertux glacier is nearby as back up.
Or look at Saalbach - very pretty and excellent snowmaking.
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@Snowsartre, Staying in Klosterle or Langen apartments are £500-£600 for a week to include Xmas, just a couple of miles from the new Stuben access. Probably a quiet way into the enlarged Arlberg system. But I've always thought that skimping on location has its own pitfalls and that on balance it is better to dig deeper into the ski fund just to make sure you get to the snow. Lech village is 1800m, does not have the fiff-raff ski-bums masquerading as "saisonairres" that are rife in France, the Austrian workers in resort tend to be from the resort and treat skiers with a great deal more hospitality, and Lech does have a decent snow record of late. I bet there's shed loads of cheap accommodation in Bulgarian resorts for the Xmas week. *ponders why* ......... 
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You know it makes sense.
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@skimastaaah, Lech is great, but not at 1800 m; it is at 1444 m. 
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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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I've done Christmas week in the Zillertal three times now and I've never yet made it up to the glacier - there's always been plenty skiing in the main valley areas. Going back to Kaltenbach for Christmas week this year.
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Poster: A snowHead
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@HoneyBunny, We won't need it this year, I'm assured 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Scarpa, and last Christmas we had a great afternoon's skiing together in and around Wagrain.
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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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@hammerite, I recall the day 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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3@chrisrawles, Check out the Sunday Times Travel Section - Ski Special......... looks like the Ski Editor is a Snowhead who has nicked all my advice and ideas....... well a couple of my good points. "Tip of the Arlberg" sums up just why Stuben particularly is a good bet.
(Apologies to Sean Newsom, Sunday Times Ski Editor, who obviously has done his homework/research on Lech/Zurs)
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@Langerzug, my bad ... I was thinking of the height of St Christoph and I stand corrected and humiliated!!
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