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What is adaptive skiing?
What is adaptive skiing? To the adaptive sports world it is self explanatory. For those of you reading this who haven’t heard the term before, adaptive skiing refers to skiing for people with disabilities with [...]
Accessibility of Waidoffen 6 Chair in Hochfügen
We took a biski up today to check out the accessibility of the new Waidoffen 6 chair in Hochfügen. Apparently, it's the first of its kind and "combines the highest standards of design, safety and [...]
First powder turns of the new season in Hochfügen
It's been snowing in the mountains so we went ski touring to get our first powder turns of the new season in Hochfügen. Hochfügen are opening for the new season on 26th November. It looks like they're working hard [...]
Winter is Coming to Zillertal!
To me, the last winter season (2015/16) in Hochfügen was strange. At the beginning of the season the natural snow didn’t come – the ski areas made a lot of snow and did a great [...]
Skiing with Autism
A while ago I wrote a blog post about why people ski. Reasons included feelings of freedom, challenge, obsession, others suggested for having fun with family and friends, closely related to aprés ski and beer! [...]
Biskiing in Hochfügen
When I started training to be an adaptive ski instructor, many years ago!, we had to learn about specific disabilities that we would encounter whilst teaching skiing. I was reflecting recently about how many students [...]
The season so far in Hochfügen
Well, the season so far has been a strange one. It is the start of February tomorrow and it feels like the season is only just getting going. It helps that it has been snowing [...]
Hochfügen is open
28th November and Hochfügen is open. A week of cold temperatures meant a week of snowmaking. Fresh snow on Thursday falling on top of a good base lead to excellent conditions for the opening day [...]
It’s snowing in Hochfügen
After a glorious autumn, all weather forecasts were saying that snow would come this weekend. And they were right 🙂 I took my touring skis up to Hochfügen to have a look around. There's still [...]
