The True Alpine Ski Experience

So, as of Saturday, I can mark off one of my lifetime goals which was to ski the the infamous Alps. It wasn't like the biggest or greatest mountains, but it was pretty cool given the stature of the mountains. Now I can count off stating i've skied in 3 different countries, which is cool for any American. But the trip was interesting nonetheless

We went with a travel agency and left kralupy by bus at 11pm on Friday and headed southwest to Austria. We arrived at our destination at about 730 AM to a ski center near Salzburg. The mountain that we went to was called Muelbach. The highest peak was 1900 m (or a bit more than 6000 ft) It was pretty sweet. Most of the slopes were (for Americans) mostly blues. There were only a few greens and a minor amount of blacks.

In Europe the markings of the slopes are different. Greens are Blues. Blues are Reds. And blacks are blacks. We skied for hours and hours. We stopped for lunch at one of the slopes and I had some gulash mit wurst and we listened to a German band for a while and continued skiing til 4. The skiing was perfect. In the morning, it was really great snow conditions and then the sun came out and lit our way the entire day. It was really a perfect day of skiing. The best that you could ask for. The ride was really quite interesting even.

We went by bus and the bus advertises as a bed bus where the buses turn into beds. After a few hours, we got off the bus and they turned the seats into beds and we continued on our way. It was a bad sleep cuz i thought i'd fall off the bunk bed bed bus. But it ended ok. and we finally came back at about midnight on saturday, just in time to change the clocks for Daylight Savings Time. Wow, it was a crazy day, but well worth the fun. It was totally sweet.