Ski Amade Area - some advice please.

swskier wrote:I'm remember there being a very good trip report on the snowheads forum from a member who had been to the area, may be worth trying to find it to have a read!?

Thanks for that. Didn't read that, will go look see.

we have stayed in radstadt before and drove round to flachau and wagrain. we are only just back from wagrain and we are staying in flachau in feb.

we love going there as the mountains are brill, even if you are good at skiing, the slopes are good enough for all.

Can certainly recommend Schladming if you can get there. Have just been skiing with a couple who were singing the praises of Zauchensee.

Thanks for the replies. Thing is, I won't have a car, although there is still the option to hire one if I felt it was really necessary. From what I can gather though Zauchensee is only a 10min bus ride from Altenmarkt, so if that is the case, it should be fine as there appears to be a decent amount of intermediate skiing to be done in that area. On the map, Flachau, doesn't look too far away either, so that will be another one to try out.

I think there's a bus link between all the resorts! Flachau is definitely worth getting to, and skiing over to wagrain! I love the area, its fantastic!

I'm probably only nervous about the travelling to and from each resort thing because of getting ourselves in a pickle last year :oops:

Plenty of nice skiing around. Best is Zauchensee which is only a short bus ride away. Absolutely brilliant, one of the best 40km of pistes I have been to. You can ski from Radstadt to Altenmarkt and then a bus to Zauchensee. From there you can alsko ski to Flachauwinkl. Small but again fabulous with nice restaurants and snow parks.
Flachau is also good, as is Wagrain further down. Lots of long cruising pistes. There is another bus from Radstadt to Flachau.
On the other side of Radstadt you have over 100km of pistes in Schladming area.
Obertauern is higher and is very snow sure with some amazing apres ski. But is not on Ski Amade lift pass. You wil have to buy Salzburgerland ski pass which I believe might be 20-30 Euros more. I think if you have plenty of time it is well worth it.
All above areas are close to Radstadt with public transport available.

TomW - thanks for that. That is really helpful. )