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A long long time ago, about 16 years to be precise, I took my last ski trip. For 2 years in a row I went with my school to a resort in Austria and now (as we are planning going with the kids for the first time this year), I thought I would like to see were we went all those years ago.
I think the village we stayed in was called Windersgarten or Windersgarden or something like this, yahoo and google have both drawn a blank...
Snowheads... I need your help! Any ideas?
Cheers,
Peter
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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welcome to snowHeads Peter  We are a friendly bunch and try to help when we can.
Goodness, what a question. Here is me not remembering where I was yesterday and you wanting to know where you went 16 years ago!!
I am wondering if it might be the skiwelt. There is Hopfgarten and Westerndorf right next to each other, might you have amalgamated the two?
Otherwise I can't think of any beginning that way - sorry, hopefully someone else will be along in a minute that knows Austria better than me.
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Ooh, good challenge prthomas, welcome to
A comination of Hopfgarten and Westendorf??
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prthomas, welcome to snowHeads!
Is there anything else you remember about your trip - how big were then mountains? How many lifts were there on the nursery slope? Did you do any day trips to nearby towns (like Kitzbuhel, for example)
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Did you fly, if so was it a long transfer? If you went by road can you remember and towns you went through?
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I'm in a similar quandry with a school trip as well, there wasn't any snow where we were staying so we had a 45minute-ish coach ride to the snow each day, I think we skied Saalbach but I'm not 100% certain. I'm going there end of Jan so if I remember bits & pieces of it I'll know.
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Blimey, I did not think I would get this many replies.
Anyway here is all I can recall.
It was a smallish town called Windersgarden or something I think. We had a 10/20 min drive to the ski slopes which was a single cablecar up to the mountain from the car park and then about 6 or 7 runs with only 2 back down to the car park. Most memorable (I was a teenage boy) was a shop called Sport Fuchs which caused us to snigger (in a Finbar Saunders way) every time we passed it!
We travelled there by coach so no clues as to airport or anything.
Cheers,
Peter
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Hmmm, well google shows up a sport fuchs in Brixen im thale, which fits nicely with the Skiwelt as that is the next town in the line Hopfgarten, Westendorf, Brixen im Thale...
The skiing does sound a bit like Westendorf too. Does this piste map look at all familiar? http://www.snow-forecast.com/pistemaps/Westendorf_pistemap.shtml
Last edited by snowHeads are a friendly bunch. on Sat 18-11-06 17:43; edited 1 time in total
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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...but if you were in Brixen im Thale you'd head up the gondola into Ski Welt proper...
When you say cable car - do you distinguish between cable cars (big single cabins holding 10 or more people operating in pairs) and gondolas (a string of ~6 man cabins)?
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A few runs and 2 back down to the car park could be Westendorf as well. The name Fuchs crops up a few times further round the Skiwelt in Soll.
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You know it makes sense.
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prthomas, I've been to Westendorf a few times, and it's where I learnt to ski, I wrote a report here and there are a few photos here
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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Hoppo, what lovely pics! 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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Hoppo, Windischgarten is right, this is the resort and as I remember it did have a monorail rather than a cable car. Now off for an afternoon of reminiscing...
Cheers All,
Peter
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.....case closed.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Peter Leuzzi, .......the 'Christopher Columbus Syndrome'.........
........He went not knowing where he was going,
........arrived not knowing where he was.....,
........returned not knowing where he had been...... 
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