New Year's Eve

An afternoon of fun skiing on the Zinkenkögel, 10 minutes drive from our house. There was virtually no one around as it was snowing pretty hard most of the time and I got some beautiful fresh lines in. It's one of the oddities of skiing in Austria: locals aren't that keen on powder or off-piste riding, they love whizzing down groomed slopes under blue skies, which suits me fine. It means it's fairly easy to find untouched deep snow days after the most recent snowfall.


View down the valley towards Salzburg from the Zinkenkögel Sesselbahn. Hallein is in the foreground.


Snowing hard and empty pistes.