If You Like Skiing, You Will Love Austria | Season Pass

If you're putting together the ultimate skiing bucket list, there's no better place to start than Austria. In fact, this place might take up the whole list all by itself. Where else can you experience the birthplace of alpine skiing, the World Cup's fiercest downhill, and a museum dedicated to skiing spy James Bond? Oh, yeah, and the skiing's not bad either. If you want to go storm skiing, it's right over there. If you want to go ski the biggest line you've ever skied, it's right over there. There's literally everything you could imagine here in Austria. Aspen's Baker Boyd and Whistler's Ian Morrison don't have a lot of reasons to leave their home mountains. But a chance to pick up some new skis and test them out at a few of Austria's most iconic resorts is a pretty good one. I grew up in Whistler, B.C., skiing Whistler Blackcomb, and I thought we had it pretty good, which we do, but you don't really know what you're missing until you come somewhere like this. It's super easy to move around onto multiple different mountain ranges in a short amount of time. Fresh tracks to be had everywhere. I like everything about it over here. I think Austria's pretty unique in a lot of ways because you're kind of driving down the Autobahn and you look to your left, you look to your right, and there seems to be a chairlift on every little town you drive through. It's just real passionate about skiing. You can sense that the ski history has been going for a much longer time, and they definitely love skiing over here. The medieval town of Kitzbühel is famous for its challenging downhill course, the Hohnenkamp. But there's more terrain to explore here, and you don't have to be a World Cup racer to enjoy it. It's pretty easy to get to anywhere you look at. There's chairlifts and trams everywhere and a lot of great tree skiing. Sölden's great. It was good to get over there after Kitzbühel, which is up lower in elevation, and then Sölden is more high alpine. Glacier skiing and amazing access and great terrain. The terrain isn't the only thing that's elevated in Sölden. They take apres to the next level. They are dedicated to the apres. You'll be like mid-power running, just here. Coming from the hill. Sölden's also home to a mountaintop cinematic experience featuring 007 and his Austrian exploits. The last box to check on their Austrian bucket list is the Arlberg. They started skiing here before the turn of the 20th century and hosted the first ever ski race in the Alps. Now, with all five of its villages interconnected by gondola, the Arlberg is Austria's largest ski area. Coming into Arlberg, it's the cradle of skiing. And I 100% believe that. I don't think it's just a tagline. I mean, when you could be here for three weeks and not even ski every single chairlift, I'd say that's a pretty decent claim to fame. The terrain, you can ski right off the chairlift. You do these massive long runs just through these huge scale mountains and it's just super cool. Yeah, Arlberg is a good nickname for this place. Pretty easy to get gnarly over here. If you just look around, you can find something almost immediately that you can scare yourself on. The Arlberg technique may have laid the foundation for modern alpine skiing, but Baker's Arlberg technique is something else entirely. If you like skiing, you're going to love it here. I think it's that simple. It all adds up to a wonderful experience.