Skiing trips - 13-17.Mar.2006

Last week i got suddenly assigned a week's holiday (god bless german work laws) so I'm going to try skiing for the first time. Someone at work said lenggries is good for beginners so I'm going to go every day on the BOB & get a week's lessons. Is this the right thing to do and does anyone else fancy it, or even just sharing a Gruppenfahrschein? Will it be fun on my own?

i want to do the same thing next week, but for snowboarding (I want to learn how snowboard!)! i could probably tag along, but probably get my own BOB tix. not sure yet though.
did you look at a week course. is cheaper that way or will you do just day courses?

Ah you can already ski! Is it not worth getting a group bob thing? Even just company on the bob would be good.. I am excited about it but i'd feel better if i wasnt alone on the first train there.
Have you been to lenggries before?

Thanks for the link, that post has links to other good stuff.. im reading this whole forum but couldn't find the right information.. BOB still looks the best though. Who did you have lessons with?

Lenggries is only good down the bottom though for beginners, and the Wegscheid side is better and that isn't where the bus drops you (I'm not 100% sure on this though, maybe there is another bus that takes you there)..

If you have a car, there are a lot of better places, but otherwise Lenggries probably is the best within reach of the train..

Also, there is a ticket you can get for 33 euros a day which includes the train, bus and the ski pass..

So you don't get the ski pass included in the group ticket on the BOB?
Is lengries really not good for beginners? If i go every day for a week (with lessons) would i get bored of what's available?
I haven't got a car no, and i'd prefer something that's a short trip as i think hours on the train + stress would take the fun out of it.. i live near Ostbahnhof
So the best plan seems to be, marry a ski instructor with a car?

I have never been to Lenggries, but I have skied in Bayrischzell at the Sudefeld, and its nice area to ski, and for beginners also a a good choice- was my first place to ski after a 4 year abscence. (and before that I was still a real beginner to ski). Its got some nice easy areas, and by the end of the week, you might want to do some of the longer slopes.
They are also on the BOB ticket.

I've skiied a couple of times in Lengries and apart from the very bottom it's not that suitable for beginners (lots of steep and narrow parts, and because it gets a lot of shade, it can be very icey)

I would recommend Waidring/Steinplatte for beginners, lots and lots of wide, long blue and reds runs plus hardly any t-bars (my snowboarding friends hate them!), they even have heated chair-lifts! I went there as a (very reluctant and grumpy) beginner and loved it.

Only disadvantage is that there is no Talfahrt so you have to take the gondel down to the bottom...

Carm, is the ski pass also included on the bob ticket for bayrischzell? How long does it take to get there?

LFF how long to get to waidring? and how expensive?

Now work people are suggesting lermoos and garmisch/partenkirchen. This gets more and more confusing. I just want somewhere easy to get to and cheap. (don't we all.)

I was at steinplatte with my kids last week and would agree with this, it really is a great place to practice and having to get the gondel down is a bonus, when you've been skiing as a beginner all day it's good not to have to do that last run!
Don't know about the train but it takes about 1.5 hours in a car.

The BOB to Bayrischezell, I think was about 45-60min- but if you check out the Dbahn (www.diebahn.de) you will get the exact travel times.

Two votes for Steinplatte! I'm on the website and it does look good (scary!) though harder to get to if its not on the BOB. I'm keen on Bayrischezell if it's so close and the 33€ includes a ski pass.. Nobody wants to come and get lessons with me though?

this page is informational : http://www.muenchen.de/Stadtleben/Specials...n_alpinski.html

Another vote to Steinplatte - its excellent for beginners and has nice fast chairs.. however, I don't think its easy to reach with the train and for a true beginner maybe its even a bit tougher than those runs at the bottom of Lenggries..

Bayrischezell can be reached pretty easily on the train, and its good for beginners too, but not as good as the bottom runs at Lenggries. These ones at the bottom of Lenggries are perfect for a true beginner but they are not long (which is good for a beginner, otherwise not good) and they are pretty boring if you can ski at all.. unfortunately, the rest of Lenggries is not for beginners - most of it is red runs and there are some nasty narrow bits just like LFF mentions.

Maybe your best bet would be to go to Lenggries to start with, and then head over to Bayrischzell when you have a little confidence.

Both Lenggries and Bayrischzell are in the deal for 33 euros which includes the train, bus at the other end and the ski pass for the day.

I was recommended to go to Lenggries as a close friend was desparate to take advantage of me and my current location here in Munich to learn to ski. Since neither of us did, it made sense.

HiSki did us a good cheap deal for 3days of 3hrs tuition. At least now I can say I can ski. My partner is out this w/e and we're going again (she already ski's).

Its not a massive area - but easy to get to and not full of 'full-of-themselves-types' in their designer gear that never touches the snow! Quite family oriented. Best by car...

I guess when i get a bit more confident and if the season lasts a bit, I might try Schaffau as that was also recommended...

OH my god im so excited now. I think i shall try all of them. But particularly Lenggries and Bayerischzell if they're both on that BOB line. If Steinplatte is not too good via the train then i shall have to save that one till i find someone with a car.. In the mean time i've found someone who'll come with me, hooray! Also we're going to stay in a hostel or something. Also also, I've found a guy who'll lend me his ski clothes! But if anyone has some old ones they want to sell cheaply I would like to buy some (preferably ladies' - i am a size 14), because his sound kind of expensive..

Thank you for all your helpses by the way, this is fab .. I honestly did read the past topics but they are so difficult to understand when i don't know what half the ski-words mean..

i would have no idea how to get to steinplatte with the train, so i think your best option then would be sudelfeld (bayerischezell) - it's 1 hour 20 mins with the train and the runs look a lot better than Lengries
sudelfeld

enjoy!

Haha, thank you for the picture.. Are you trying to make me cry? it looks Big and Scary. I can't believe people actually go down a whole mountain.

I d go for sudelfeld also... that s a nice area.

Hi

I'm coming to Munich 13-17 as well, been skiing once and found it really hard. I have friends in Munich and they have all told me to go to Garmisch. When I look on the Piste map though I can't see a way to get down without going on a red run. Does anyone know Garmisch and whether it's good for beginners?

I d not say it s the best idea for a beginner to go to garmisch... the resorts near bayrischzell (spitzingsee, sudelfeld)/lenggries are quite fine for beginners..

I thought that. Do they not identify green runs in Germany? All seem to start at blue on the maps. Sorry, I am a real novice as you can see. My last memory was crashing into the orange fence at Val Cenis in France...still look forward to it though...

Well as far as I know there are no green slopes in Germany (at least I havent seen one), but blue ones are really for beginners, so dont worry about that...

Thanks

In Germany, Austria and I think most of Italy the notations are blue (easy), red (medium) and black (hard).

In France it is Green, Blue, Red, Black and in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand it is Green, Blue and Black.

Thanks

I think we'll go to Lenngries...it looks like there's a nice bit at the bottom that I can mooch around on while the other 2 can go higher up!!!