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Ski season starts at the Zugspitze
The ski season at the Zugspitze starts. photo
© Angelika Warmuth/dpa
The lifts on Germany’s highest mountain are usually at the forefront when the ski season opens. This year it’s different – the anticipation still seems great.
From today on, skiers can take part in the Zugspitze make their first turns. Winter operations start on Germany’s highest mountain – a good two days after the first lifts in the Black Forest and a day later than on Söllereck in the Allgäu. The heavy snowfall in the past few days has somewhat mixed up the order at the opening of the season.
Ski fans have to dig deeper into their pockets again. Depending on the ski area, it is likely to be between just under four and ten percent. At the Zugspitze and in the Garmisch Classic ski area, where the season is not scheduled to start until mid-December, a day ticket costs 62 euros, 5 euros more than last season. In Austria, prices are also rising by up to ten percent.
The anticipation still seems great. “Season ticket sales are going very well, interest in winter sports is unbroken,” said Antonia Asenstorfer, managing director of the Alpen Plus ski areas and board member of the Association of German Cable Cars and Drag Lifts. After two Corona years and a winter marked by the energy crisis, it looks like a normal winter again for the first time, said the spokeswoman for the Bavarian Zugspitzbahn, Verena Tanzer.