100 years of skiing in Obertauern, Winter Sports in Austria
Alpine skiing sport in Obertauern: Skiing legends back then and now
100 years of skiing in Obertauern
Yes, you have read right, for more than 100 years skiing in Obertauern has been practiced. From the beginnings of the military skiing brigade via the first skiing tourists, which had reach the Radstadt Tauern mountain on foot, to the very first skiing schools, and when the first one already existed in the 1930s. What followed are Austrian skiing legends and Austrian Skiing history. The Austrian Obertauern is not just famous as the home of internationally successful winter sports pros, such as the snowboarder pros Doris and Heid Krings and the ski racer Heinz Schilchegger, but it was also the Olympic high altitude training centre for the whole of Europe. Not just the Ski-ace Herman Maier trained here for years, but many a skiing holiday makers learnt how to ski in Obertauern of Austria.
Since the turn of the century quite a few things have moved on though, skiing equipment, as well as the many different ways of skiing and snowboarding have opened the pistes for a wider and sports orientated holiday crowd. From sun-skiing to high performance skiing, carving, off-piste free riding and freestyle-snowboarding or even snow-kiting - there is space for everyone.
