270: St Anton & Lech and the rise of the ‘Slow Skiing’ movement

Today we find out more about the Arlberg ski area in Tirol, Austria – focussing on St Anton and Lech – plus we look at the rise of the ‘Slow Skiing’ movement.

Austria for sponsoring The Ski Podcast and making this winter’s episodes possible. If this is your first time listening, you’ve already missed out on some great conversations about Tirol.

Host Iain Martin was joined in the studio by Nicole Feliciano, founder of Ski Moms.
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Tirol in Austria sponsors The Ski Podcast, which means this winter we’re are finding out more about some of the great destinations in Tirol, and how you can connect with the Austrian way of life: ‘Lebensgefühl’ – that you’ll find there.
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SHOW NOTES

Nicole skied at Catamount in New England (2:00)
Tim Hudson from Inspired Italy reported from the Dolomites, Italy (5:15)
Jen Tsang from That’s La Plagne reported from La Plagne (6:45)
Floss Cockle, aka FreeFloFloss on YouTube, reported from Tignes (8:30)
Next week’s episode will be an interview with GB freestyle skier Kirsty Muir (10:15)
Iain revealed in Episode 269 that he broke his scapula while skiing in St Anton (10:45)
Find out more about the museum in St Anton (11:45)
Yannick Rumler works for the St Anton Tourist Office
Hannes Schneider founded the first ski school in the world (14:30)
Find out about St Anton’s annual race ‘The Weisse Rausche’ (16:15)
Gerhard Eichhorn is Sustainability Officer at the St. Anton Tourism Board (17:30)
Iain travelled to St Anton by train (18:30)
Lech is actually in the Vorarlberg region of Austria, but both resorts are part of the huge Arlberg ski area (21:30)
Iain stayed in the family run Hotel Stafeli (22:15)
The Stafeli is part of the ChangeMaker network of hotels
Julia Fenneberg is from the Lech-Zurs tourist office (23:00)
The annual ‘White Ring’ race (24:30)
Discover the amazing Lech Skyspace (26:30)
Iain spoke with Angelika Kaufmann about avalanche blasting (28:00)~
Iain tried Kaiserschmarn at the Sennhutte in St Anton (34:00)
He also has a superb Gröstl at the magnificent Verwallestube at the top of the Galzigbahn (34:30)
In Episode 225 Nicole shared the results of your ‘Ski Moms Happiness Survey’(36:30)
Earlier this year Nicole founded the ‘Slow Skiers Club’ (36:45)
Nicole’s Instagram post launching the club went viral (38:30)
Why does slow skiing matter? (39:00)
Nicole conducted a survey to find out more (43:00)
Listen to Episode 229 Kimberley Kay & Carol Porter discuss ‘The Fear Project’ (46:00)
Nicole spoke to Chemmy Alcott on her SkiMoms podcast
The First Rule of Slow Skiers Club (49:00)

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