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2Alps is a large ski resort with its own glacier offering year-round skiing. For snowboarders, it also has an impressive board park that gets moved to the glacier in the summer. Although the vast ski area gets frequent dumps of snow through the winter, the lack of trees on the mountain and the sometimes gale-force winds usually blow the fresh stuff away. The two main gondolas usually get closed while this happens too) If you do manage to get good conditions though, head up to the…

The Sankt Anton am Arlberg ski area in itself is quite small, but the connections make it a large area. The separate areas are connected by several lifts, you will spend a long time using lifts to get to another village. In addition, the connecting lift(s) are frequently closed by high winds, avalanche risk or downright lack of people. I find the area overrated, especially the Sankt Anton sector; there are nicer (more compact, but with at least as many kms) areas to be found in Austria…

There are a good variety of slopes, particularly blue and red slopes. If you are looking for advanced and black slopes, this is not the area for you. We were on a family holiday with very good skiers and they still enjoyed themselves. Few queues and well run area. There are a number of off piste slopes for some challenge and some very pretty runs through the trees.