Quote Originally Posted by Blue Jays View Post
Folks in Austria take the train to the ski slopes and drop their skis onto the snow within 100 meters of hopping off the train!
It is definitely pretty cool to see and is certainly a fun surprise for American tourists. Great infrastructure planning, too.
In Innsbruck you can see people walking round the city in full ski kit, as you can access a good area direct from the city centre, and you also see them at the main train station, from where you take one fast train, change once and then go along the Ziller Valley to all sorts of ski resorts. And of course if you fancy it you can also have a glass of wine or beer.