Usually yes but higher is safer. Some local ski resorts (east Austria) recently took out their lower lifts (below 1000m).
If you are going to go that low I'd make sure you are not that far from a...

Haggis,

Link in German for family ski resorts
https://www.snowplaza.de/themen/familienfreundliche-skigebiete/

Serfaus is great for family, advanced piste skiing and a fair bit of offpiste but...

Translation of salient points -
Happened at 12:55 today ( Tuesday 14.11 ), a loud bang was heard.
Avi level 3 (Considerable). Out of bounds slab avalanche.
4 in the group, 1 snowboarder...

It used to be that in Europe only the prepared pistes were avi controlled. Offpiste (non groomed areas) were not generally avi controlled if they did not present a risk to a piste.

Seems now a...

Always thought Sölden was much bigger than Obergurgl & Hochgurgl, Bergfex says Sölden 146 km v 110 km Obergurl / Hochgurgl.
Early Season Sölden is pretty empty in the centre whereas Obergurgl has a...

Doesn't look like much snow is coming before the weekend and it even looks like rain high up tonight. Was on the Kitzsteinhorn glacier last week, the gusts of wind were enough to blow people over...

Can't make it in Jan 08 this season but the snow report is looking good for next week ...

http://www.wetter.at/wetter/sport-freizeit/ski-wetter/oesterreich/tirol/st-anton-am-arlberg/

Site with latest Austrian snowfall figures

http://de.skiinfo.com/snowreport/austria_snowfall.jsp

oder Wien?

Hinterstoder is open this weekend
http://www.hiwu.at/winter/de/1352571/det_highlight.html

Skied hochkar but not Hinterstoder although Hinterstoder looks the larger resort.
...

Kaprun got 40cm fresh last night (137cm total base up top) while the other Austrian glaciers got very little or nothing.

http://www.bergfex.com/austria/schneewerte/

With public transport it'll probably take you no longer to get to St Anton am Alberg (ca 12 hrs). To maximize ski time an overnight train might be your best bet. Plenty of places to rent skis but...

Nearby Tauplitz saw 50cm fresh, Bergfex is saying 40cm fresh for Krippenstein with 200cm total up top.

http://www.bergfex.com/krippenstein/schneebericht/

Heard reports about really warm European temps this Sat - tell me it ain't so. :frown:

Ripzalot,

The 116cm looks to be an error. I'm told it's actually the level of snow at 1860cm and the total new snow in the last 24hours is around 40cm.

I think there's some weird temp inversion going on. This morning the car was covered in clear ice but it was raining :confused:

I know the Bavarians are having their problems too but ....

Two Austrians have died from roof avalanches already. Bad Gastein (or was it Badhofgastein) was shut to traffic because of too much...

Getting a bit crazy here in Eastern Austria, buildings collasping under the heavy snow. Emergency services, the army and local people all helping to get snow off buildings. Some towns have been...

Was with Graham 3rd week Jan and even though it hadn't snowed for 2 weeks he still found us fresh tracks. Then it dumped :biggrin:

There's quite a lot of snow further east at the moment. Don't discard cheap flights to Linz or Graz and resorts in Lower Austria / Styria.

http://www.bergfex.at/austria/schneewerte/?sortBy=Berg

There's a local daily update of the conditions at St Anton from a guide on this site

http://www.pistetopowder.com/

"Today's snow conditions & what's been skied -8/02/06
(Please refresh your...

I was skiing Tauplitz over new year, it's is a real snow magnet. It just got another 60cm fresh overnight and snow depth is now 420 cm :D

Local hills round Vienna have 2 to 3 metres (ca 1 metre...

St Anton 15 cm fresh much more to come ......