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One sunny day, this February in St Johann in Tirol, we were turned away from the two main car parks as they were full (never had this before) and ended up in a satellite village and catching a gondola up from there. There were quite long queues at the lift (again, never seen a queue here) and when we made are way across to the main gondola station in town it was heaving.
There were lots of people sunning themselves at the top of the mountain and sitting around outside all the bars on the mountain.
What I don't get is that the pistes were pretty empty.
Surely, time on the mountain is money - and plenty of it!
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Drammeister wrote:
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There were lots of people sunning themselves at the top of the mountain and sitting around outside all the bars on the mountain.
What I don't get is that the pistes were pretty empty.
Surely, time on the mountain is money - and plenty of it!
...that’s because people have different wants and desires from their holiday. They don’t have to please you, nor do you have to please them.
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Drammeister wrote:
There were lots of people sunning themselves at the top of the mountain and sitting around outside all the bars on the mountain.
What I don't get is that the pistes were pretty empty.
Surely, time on the mountain is money - and plenty of it!
They were probably skiing while you were fighting your way up the mountain. By the time you got there they were soaking up the sun with a nice cold beer and you had the slopes to yourself. Everyone's a winner.
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I suspect it might be locals able to visit most weekends that time and weather allow, probably having done that all their lives. They may have slightly different priorities to those of us only able to visit for one -often fixed way in advance- 6 day window each year. Although I still feel luckier than those unable to ski at all for whatever reason......
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