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Austrian Ski & Glacier Resorts Snow and Skiing Conditions Reports. Austria Summer Season 2009 Holidays & Ski Trips

(updated 29 June 2009)

The Austrian glacier resorts, offering summer skiing are providing with typical ski conditions for the season. However, some skiing areas in Austria received rainshowers recently, which made the snow cover wet and heavy.

Currently there is still quite large skiable terrain open across the Austrian glacial ski resorts, although the Stubai glacier is now closed for the summer season and snow sports there will be available again in the autumn. The cloudy skies today brought rain showers at the open glacial areas of Austria. The Molltal glacier (330 cm) has reopened for snow sports and one can ski on nine kilometers of open slopes. The Kitzsteinhorn glacier at Kaprun (326 cm) received some fresh snow last week and currently skiing and snowboarding are available on seven kilometers of pistes with very good snow cover down to the Alpincenter. The cloudy skies above Kaprun are likely to bring some more precipitation this week, but these are likely to fall as rain. The Dachstein Glacier (350 cm) is also open for summer skiing and snowboarding but snowsports are available on limitied terrain. The Hintertux glacier (225 cm) provides its visitors with good skiing and snowboarding conditions for the summer season, as well as with the largest skiable area. There are twenty-three kilometers of skiable terrain and their visitors can have great fun, especially on the higher pistes. Mostly cloudy and rainy weather is expected across Austria this week.

Please note that some skiing areas are now partially open or snow sports are available only during the weekends and this information might has changed since we have published it, so it is best to contact the Austrian Tourist Office before travelling or get more recent information at the official website of the particular ski resort you are planning to visit.

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Vienna Jazz Festival 29 June - 9 July 2009 Vienna, Austria

Initially carried out in 1991, the Vienna Jazz Festival has turned into one of the top events in the European jazz, blues and soul music calendar. The Fest attracts lots of very famous bands to city’s venues - from the Town Hall square and the State Opera House, to numerous nightclubs for this popular annual event. Some of the highlights of the 2009 programme include Omara Portuondo (solo), as well as a part of the Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club, John Scofield, Afrobeat from Seun Kuti & Fela's Egypt 80 and many, many other famous artists.

Please for the full programme of Wien Jazz Festival visit the fest’s official website. Also browse our recommended hotels in Vienna for the best hotel accommodation in the Austrian capital as well as Vienna travel guide and Vienna attractions pages.

Salzburg Festival, July 25 - August 30 2009 Salzburg Domplatz, Austria

In a city with greatly preserved baroque architecture, providing an imposing backdrop, the Salzburg Festival presents various concerts and operas performances of the top artistic standards during a period of around one month each summer. The Salzburg Festival is often described as one of the most impressive and important festivals not only in Austria or Europe, but all over the world, and this reputation became firm by countless superlatives, the imposing number as well as quality of performances and annual visitors.
World-wide famous orchestras, singers, actors, conductors, stage directors and virtuoso instrumentalists can be seen and heard in July and August in the Austrian city of Salzburg. Even the most remarkable opera performers come together here to rehearse productions intensively for few weeks and fulfilling the creed of this Fest as it was initially envisioned by Hugo von Hofmannsthal - one of the Festival’s founders: “Dramatic play-acting in the strongest sense is our intention; routine, run-of-the-mill performances have no place here.
For more information, please refer to Salzburg Festival website. To find accommodation during the event, please visit our Salzburg hotels page.

The Arlberg Eagle (various dates in April, July and August 2009), St Anton am Arlberg, Austria

Der Arlberg Adler (The Arlberg Eagle) is a triathlon, but it differentiate with this that it is held over 5 months. The event is very popular in Austria and there are only five hundred places available so one should register earlier! The exciting competition begins in April with "the white thrill" (der weisse Rausch), which is a 9 km ski race with a mass start at 2650 m. elevation on the Vallugagrat mount. Arlberger Jakobilauf - a half marathon takes place in July, after which the event culmination is a mountain biking marathon carried out in August. For further details and participation in the event, please visit the Arlberg Eagle website or contact the tourist office in St Anton.