Most of the day today I kept looking around me and saying “It’s like a painting.” Today was a good day for our first day skiing Ischgl.
Arrival in Ischgl
When we arrived in town Sunday afternoon, it was rainy and dark. Today was sunny and clear. And warm! Quite warm – 6 degrees! There’s a pretty good base of snow here, and especially as you climb the mountains, the snow gets better.
Our hotel is a great location for skiing Ischgl so that’s what we’re doing!
Skiing Ischgl
We can ski so many runs from Ischgl, including into the Swiss Alps and all around. Some of the runs lasted almost an hour. The skiing is awesome. Toward the valleys, the snow was more like slush and ice, but up high, the conditions were great. And the views don’t hurt either.
Skiing to Switzerland
We had lunch somewhere in Switzerland on the Saumnan side – we had no idea we were even in Switzerland until they charged us in francs. Soup and beer for me and Brian had a cheese plate with beer. And a pretzel – which I helped devour, of course.
The day flew by, but we have four more days left of enjoying all the different runs on both the Italian and Swiss sides of the mountains. It is supposed to cool down and maybe we’ll get some fresh snow too.
Photos of our first day skiing Ischgl and Samnaun
Here are photos from our first day skiing Ischgl. I posted more photos from our other days skiing. How beautiful!
Skiers
