Skiing Obertauern
January/February 2006

This skiing vacation stood not under a good star.Already on the third day day it should contrast with any other skiing vacation - unfortunately to our disadvantage.
Nevertheless that I was not in a good health condition, we started Saturday morining at 2 o'clock, direction the south. The usual traffic jam around Munich cost us an hour and reached Austria around 11am. It was the day, the TV show „bets that… “ awaited us in Obertauern. The motivation was high. Arrived, the first bottle sparkling wine and was opened and we unpacked the car. Sandra's colleague Anke reported about very cold weather in the past week. Up-to-date the temperatures were raised to - 5°C - very much  comfortable. That should not change the whole week. Exactly like the sunshine and the blue sky. It was a dream and best conditions for a dream vacation.
We explored Obertauern, but without me, cause I had still this cold... And so I decided to stay in bed. Our hotel " Latschenhof" convinced with very good service, tidy rooms and especially very good meals. So we made a good choice. In the evening went Caro, Sascha and Sandra to the external bet from „bets that… “, while I stayed still in bed.
On the following day unbelievable ski conditions expected us. We rented the skies and explored the 160km skiing area. Sandra started with ski school, it was her first day on skies. And therefore we regularly stopped at the bear, in order to look after her. She didn't seemed to be convinced in the evening. The "idiot's hill" wasn't so funny and a little bit exhausting. However, that changed in the second day. The first successful downhill rides and the feeling to be „master of the skies “ was good for her. We tried to explore the „Tauernrunde “, that's a two hours ride around the village of Obertauern, and started to rerecognize the several runs. The little Schnaps-bottle stayed at home, because it did not get along with the Paracetamol, but the fun factor was high! In the late afternoon I got a sad phone call of Sandra: She teared her ligament in the knee. The meant the skiing career ended for this vacation. The ski teacher of ski school "Koch" was unfortunately a complete disaster. Instead of reacting on signals of his pupils, that strength shrinks, he reinstructed to stand up and drive on. That was the reason, why Sandra fell down and had this accident. It would probably not have had to be - but it happened.
An operation in Radstadt at "Dr. Aufmesser"-clinic followed. For us meant this shortened ski days and only a few Aprés-Ski-parties. After two nights Sandra was back again in the hotel.and started with her training-program in Obertauern. We diverted ourselves during the day in wonderful weather on the runs and drank some "Jagatea" on the numerous huts. Altogether the skiing area with its mostly simple and moderate runs pleased us outstanding. We had a lot of fun. The huts were individual and in sufficient number available. We recommend Obertauern! Furthermore the Aprés-Ski offer seemed to be absolutely ok. We only went to the „Lürzer Alm “ and stopped daily at the little umbrella of the Snowwhite. We could not explore more - unfortunately.
Despite the unfortunate circumstances we had a beautiful time in Austria. Obertauern is a wonderful skiing area and offers much alternation. By teh way, we met some nice people, which I want to greet here: Susi, Rolf and Matteo as well as Dirk and Annette. Somehow they were all from Hamburg, I don't know why. And theer was always a reason to laugh at dinner time :-)

"Ski welfare" in Obertauern!

The mountains	Hotel Latschenhof	In the Lift
On the hut	Sunsinhe...	The "Knirps"-Bar
The Party-mile	On the skies...	Aprés-Ski in Snowwhite-umbrella

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