This was my first ski trip, so I didn't know what to expect at all. When we booked this hotel, i even wondered if we should have booked "the actual ski resort hotel", i.e. the biggest hotel run by the ski mountain operator, like Disneyland hotel belonging to the Disneyland company. Eventually, I found out that, at least for this ski location, there wasn't any "actual" ski resort hotel. Basically, all skiers and tourists stayed at the small local hotels, which were probably 5 to 15 minutes walk to the bottom of the ski resort/mountain.
It was a pleasant 10-minutes walk from our hotel to the foot of the ski resort. It's mainly upward slopes and stairs, with snow and occasional plants and flowers along the way.
At the foot of the ski resort, we went onto the travelator, known as "YU road" locally, that brings us up the mountain. It takes about 5 minutes to reach the top.
At the top, there were only 2 buildings. On the right, was the ski school, which I assume was the main operator of the ski resort. This was where we signed up for classes. The building on the left consisted of 2 to 3 ski equipment rental shops and food/resting places. The rest of this place was basically open space for ski classes. And right in front, we could see the main ski mountain range, where the real skiing took place.
We took a 2 hour skiing class. I felt that it's harder than roller blading, cos skiing took place on constant slopes. So while it didn't take any effort to stay stationary on roller blades, it took constant effort to stay stationary on ski slopes. Age was a factor too. For example, we need to push our right leg out (against the snow) in order to turn left, which I was able to do. But I couldn't 't turn right at all, cos I wasn't able to push my left leg out (no strength). I was much younger and more agile when I learnt blading. And WK didn't do as well as the girls either.
I posted a video of the girls skiing below, watch it!
At the end of the class, all 3 of them were keen to do it again on the next day. Little did I know that the instructor decided that the girls were ready for the mountain the next day. So on day 6, the girls went skiing on the mountain, while WK took the (same) lessons again. Here are the photos (and video) for our first skiing experience!
Views along the way from our hotel to the ski resort:
- some plants thrive in winter!
- all wrapped up for our first mountain encounter!
- the streets were beautiful:
- up, up and away!
- Lynnette looked very pretty in her turquoise coat, red beanie and pink gloves.
This is the travelator that goes to the ski place:
As mentioned above, there were only 2 buildings at this place, but both were not in this picture. The flatter piece of land (slightly sloping) on the right was where we learn how to ski (the video below is of the girls learning to ski at this slope). And there were many other ski paths as show in the picture below, that were for intermediate skiers.
As I was also taking the class, there weren't many photos.. here's one collage.
Watch the video, the girls were good!
Here's a random pic:
2 more night scene photos:
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Did you like skiing? We do it every year and just love it. We were in the hotel Val Passiria and had a great view on the white nature.
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