Bad Hofgastein - Ski Season 2012/13 draws to a close _ April 2013
A Season to Savour - 6th April 2013 The day the Graukogel closed - 31st March - half a metre of new snow! It is the 6th of April and 7pm and I have just looked out the window into the gathering gloom. A large group of skiers is heading down the home run to the village. I imagine they have been celebrating the penultimate day of skiing in a hut on the Schlossalm. They probably have seen the weather forecast for tomorrow and have decided to finish tonight. Skiing after 5 pm when the piste-bashers are doing their work is not terribly sensible. These days the machines often pull themselves up the piste with a cable anchored to a tree. It does not take a vivid imagination to visualise what happens if the ski's go under the cable and some part of the anatomy hits it shortly afterwards. So the season that opened on the 7th December is now drawing to a close. The volume of snow this winter has not been that great but low temperatures have kept the snow firmly on the ground. Conditio...