Top 10 Skiing Destinations in Germany | 2022/23
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- čas přidán 7. 06. 2024
- Top 10 best ski resorts in Germany ranked - 2022/23 season. While Germany doesn’t have the giant ski areas of France, Austria, Italy, or Switzerland, it does have great ski resorts with picturesque villages and panoramic views of the Bavarian Alps. Germany offers some of the most accessible and best value-for-money skiing in Europe.
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Timestamps and helpful links:
00:00 Intro
01:10 Willingen - www.booking.com/city/de/willi...
02:12 Sudelfeld - www.booking.com/city/de/bayri...
03:07 Oberjoch - Bad Hindelang - www.booking.com/city/de/oberj...
03:57 Brauneck-Lenggries - www.booking.com/city/de/lengg...
04:55 Winklmoosalm-Steinplatte - www.booking.com/city/de/reit-...
05:48 Arber - www.booking.com/city/de/bayer...
06:57 Winterberg - www.booking.com/city/de/winte...
07:56 Feldberg - www.booking.com/city/de/feldb...
09:00 Oberstdorf - www.booking.com/city/de/obers...
10:21 Garmisch-Partenkirchen - www.booking.com/city/de/garmi...
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At 7:39 it is not Winterberg, but Innsbruck-Igls in Austria.
00:08:23 this picture does not show the Feldberg in Black Forrest, but the mountain Grosser Feldberg in Taunus near Frankfurt on Main.
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The commentary is odd. I wonder if it’s a computer generated voice.
I learnt skiing in Germany, and I have a lot of fond memories at a huge amount of the lifts here. I grew up in the swabian alpes, about two hours from the first real mountainrange of the alps. Skiing was, while not as pronounced as in the ski towns in the alpes, a important part of the winter. Back in the day, sleds pulled by horses and cross country skis where the only way to connect the various little villages. You would often hear stories about how sleigh rides through the storm, through Forrests and vast opend Forrests were necessary. A lot of people would not have been alive if thier parents and villages hadn't made these trips to bring children to hospitals and bring medicine back for the elders. A lot of towns had a massive sleigh parked in some shed, that would see the light of day every now and again when the towns were snowed in. Everyone had skis, with old wooden ones often mounted on living room walls. Towns with as little as a hundred inhabitants had a ski club and operated a lift. And when I was a child, these hills were packed with families teaching skiing to thier kids. No one would take ski lessons, you either learned it from your parents or in a ski club. But growing up, things changed. With the increasing price of ski equipment and cold weather gear, a lot of people never joined in. As only a third of kids in my class could ski, we didn't go to the usual alpine trip. I later realized that a lot of parents that had never skiid themselves didn't want to adopt a seemingly expensive hobby. The prices for lift tickets in the alps rising from 20 to around a hundred euros within just a few years proved them right. As I grew older, fewer and fewer of my friends skiid. The only ones that did went to expensive resorts in Switzerland and expected you to be able to pay the exorbitant sums of money this entailed. As the years went on I begrudgingly accepted the facts my more class-concious friends layed out: skiing was a rich people thing. They couldn't relate to my stories, to my insistence that I wanted to teach them skiing. They had no interest in it because they knew they couldnt spare that mich money on being able to go down a mountain fast. And they were right.
Skiing in the resorts my parents go to now coast about 150 euros before you even set foot on the snow. And that's not even counting having to drive there. Staying at a cabin, going for walks, eating there.. All that now adds up to 800 euros for a weekend. Which is impossible to pay for at lead 95% of the German population.
My current ski, together with the boots, where 40 euros. My sticks are the same ones I had since I was a child, as they are telescopic. I have a second hand pair of winter pants, gloves and a old pair of ski goggles from my father. He also equipped my ski with cross-country catches and skins.
I ski a lot better then anyone with this year's ski and fancy new jacket.
The lifts back in the swabian alpes where 5 euros for twenty rides. It was a little cardboard piece, and the guy at the start of the lift would punch a hole for every time you passed him in the cue.
These lifts are gone now. The old, ineffective lifts are to expensive to run and maintain for the two days in the year where we get snow. The swabian alpes, which had thick, consistent snow, often continuesly from November till February now get less then a week. Chlimate change hit us hard, but no one really blinked, because we were not a tourist region and there was nothing we could do. In the surrounding towns in only know 2 ski clubs that are still regularly meeting. They only plan group trips into the mountains now. There had to have been hundreds of club with at least 50 lifts within a 50km radius. They are all gone. Actually seeing a lift running is now a rare sight. But there are hundreds of empty hills with steel arms sticking out of them, no cables attached and slowly being overgrown. It's incredibly sad. The areas in the alpes used snow cannons to combat the loss of snow, but even there you can see how all the lifts at the bottom of the valley aren't running as well. My father said that within Germany and even a lot of Austria, most lifts aren't suitable for skiing below the middle Station. They are sad, brownish lines of snow in brown and green fields. And as soon as you go over the middle stations, you get robbed of all your money by the skiing industry with its terrible music touristy cabins and alcohol. Skiing is dead in Germany. What didn't die from climate change was ruined by greedy firms trying to get a return on investments.
So what do I want to say?
Go to a second had ski fare, and if there isn't one in your area then organize one. If gotten all my friends cheap to free winter gear and ski's as well as boards. Then, look for cross country (touring ski) catches and skins, and mount them to your ski. et voila, you are now free to ski without a lift. Did you know that the ski companies can't stop you from just walking to the top of thier neat and fancy three star diamond black run and riding it down without paying a fair? Funny how that works. It's almost as if the mountains are for everyone and no one. Step three is to find one of the many towns decimated by lack of tourists and Chlimate change and rent a room from the locals. If your friendly and come back every year it's really reasonably cheap. Forth is the advice to avoid traveling to ski destinations at all costs. If you take your suv up into the mountains and park it with thousands of others you are actively hurting the environment and making climate change worse. Stop it. If your thinking about taking a plane to go skiing I will personally come to your hous, slap you with a wet fish and cook you a pot of beans afterwards. Don't. You claim to love the mountains, so please stop killing them. Forth, and I can see you yelling : "but anonymous youtube person not everyone lives in a ski area! “ well I also don't anymore thanks to all of the doofouses before me, but we make do. Chlimate change also brings some more extrem weather events, so anytime there is a snowstorm and the next morning, everything is covered in beautiful white, tkae this newly acquired skiing freedom and ride over to the next village. I promise you it's super fun and skiing a long forgotten lift in the middle of the Forrest completely alone is just beautiful.
Have fun people!
Also remember that avalanches are a thing.
Your estimate of 800 euros for a skooing weekend is about what it costs me top fly from Ireland to Munich and travel on to Austria for 3 days skiing and 4 nights accomodation. Since covid there has been a noticable increase in accomodation prices. I I would budget 100 euro now for one days ski rental and ski lift pass so 300 euro approx for 3 days skiing. As for my taking a plance to go skiiing, I live on the islaand of Ireland and it si the only practical way to get tpo Austria
Thats maybe the best ranking of german ski resorts, which exists currently.
The resorts in Top 9 are picd perfect. Maybe in another order, but thats not that important.
The 10th place - willingen - could be questioned. It is located very low and its technical snow system isnt as good as the one in Winterberg nearby.
With Ofterschwang, Balderschwang and the Jenner there are three mid sized ski resorts in bavaria, which could be easyly on 10th place. Its hard to rank them though.
Plus; you counted "Kleinwalsertal" as one resort. So Oberwiesenthal + Klinovec (germany + czech republic) could be also counted as one resort. They are connected through a short skibus ride.
Oberwiesenthal allone isnt a Top 10 resort though.
Thanks, appreciate your feedback. I agree that there are many mid sized Bavarian resorts which could placed as 10th. Which German resort is your favourite?
@@mountain_sightThe brauneck. It has three slopes with big altitude. The slopes have an interesting course and the majority is pretty steep. On top you have a great mixture of lifts. Modern chairlifts, an old gondola and multiple nice surface lifts. Most famous lift is the Idealhanglift. Its a surface lift which take you to the higest point and the best slope (also named Idealhang) of brauneck. You can see it in your vid. at 4:16
The video transitions make me dazed.
Willingen is 578-838m. Not 600.
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At that elevation level snow quickly melts and there will not be any ski resort there in the not too far away furure because of global warming
0:10 0:10 tutorial at 10 likes
the picture change effect made me dizzy, I stopped watching because of it
No way Germany has the most ski areas of any countries in europe a joke! Lucky if you have snow. Wouldn’t fly one and half to ski anywhere in Germany!
Germany has with 497 areas (2020) the most ski areas in europe. Austria for example has about 400 ski areas.
@@f.z.649 How is this counted? They probably count every 200m run in anyones garden as a ski area. It makes no sense and I say that as a German. The 10 ski areas in this video here are like 50% of every ski area I know in Germany. They must have counted some yank 1 person ski areas no one cares about and cross country ski areas that don't even have lifts, like they count every trecking road in the summer as a cross country ski area in the winter.
@@f.z.649 I am familair with some of the Austrian resorts, eg Ischgl , Maryhoffen and St Anton am Arlberg and most of the German resorts listed here just cannot compare - some fo these resorts are unlikely to have snow for a good deal of the normal ski season.
@@pperoni7047 I do go to Austrai skiing as was surprised to see then ski resorts listed here - but as you suggest, the video exaggerates a great deal
Nobody said, that the german ski resorts are cooler or bigger than autrian resorts. I live in munich and 99% of the time I go skiing in Austria, not in Germany. I am sure that Austria has more ski lifts than Germany but when you count every single backyard with a t-bar lift as a resort, Germany has most resorts, even when they are smaller than austrian ones.
Very disappointing video - some of the resorts are so low lying they wont have snow for a good deal of ski season and some will simply not survive at all with global warming