It had been years since I had been to Austria, but last Christmas holiday we went with the family to Kaprun, Austria for a skiing holiday. Since the children were born, we haven't really gone skiing until now.

I'll give you an impression of the views from the snow-capped mountains Kitzsteinhorn and the Maiskogl. There was almost no snow in the valleys, but there was enough when we went higher up with the different ski lifts and gondolas.

Kaprun is a small town with about 3000 inhabitants and lies at an altitude of 786 meters.
In winter Kaprun has way more inhabitants because of all the tourists that come over there to go skiing. The town is full of hotels and appartments in a traditional Austrian style as you can see in the photo.
In the background you can clearly see that only the mountain tops are covered in snow.

On one side of the town you have the Maiskogel. From there you can take the gondola up the mountain. As you can see it was a bit misty.

At the end of the gondola you can take another skilift that even takes you higher up the mountain.
This day we went through a thick layer of clouds.

When exiting the skilift we had a beautiful view over the foggy valley. Even the town wasn't visible anymore.

When skiing back down we came closer to the clouds again and had this stunning view. When we were above the clouds it was very nice and even quite warm in the sun. But we also had to go through the clouds again to get back down and that was quite cold.

Later in the day the fog cleared and it was also pleasant lower down the mountain where we had lunch.

We also went to the Kitzsteinhorn glacier a couple of days later, but I'll create another blogpost for that one.