Stunning Images - Filzmoos, Salzburg Austria

Filzmoos in Austria (in the Salzburg region) is a large resort with 14 lifts (2 chair lifts, 11 surface lifts) that offers skiers an impressive 588 metres (1929 feet) of vertical descent. Filzmoos has 14 pistes with a total length of 12 kilometers (8 miles). Filzmoos is best suited to intermediate skiers and snowboarders but there is some terrain for beginners and advanced skiers. There are 40 kilometers (25 miles) of cross country ski trails at Filzmoos. Over half of the pistes at Filzmoos are covered by snowmaking. The closest airport is at Salzburg but the transfer time is 1.5 hours. The nearest train station to Filzmoos is at Eben im Pongau. There is accommodation located close to the pistes but we would welcome additional information about any hotels or chalets in Filzmoos.

Filzmoos is a village in the Pongau area of Salzburg. It is a famous ski resort and part of the Salzburger Sportwelt, the skiing area that seeded the formation of Ski Amade. The latter is now among Europe′s biggest skiing areas, Filzmoos is a part of that one, too. The altitudes of the Filzmoos slopes lie between 1,060 metres and 1,600 metres. Filzmoos has a total population of 1,450. It is one of the many places in Salzburg where tourists make a drastically larger population than locals - at least during the skiing season.

Geographically, Filzmoos lies between the Gosaukamm area of the Salzkammergut, near Mount Bischofsmütze. The latter is part of the Dachsteinmassiv mountain range. On the Salzburg side, Filzmoos goes towards the Salzburger Schieferalpen, not just a mountain range, but a geological entity. Like Filzmoos itself, all of its neighbouring communities are ski towns, which makes it an attractive base for exploring a diverse array of slopes during the winter.

That being said, don′t expect Filzmoos to be a skiing ghetto only. In fact, it is a proper village with quite a bit of history. Traditionally, the area was very remote and characterised by agriculture (mountain cabins that were used during the summers for raising cattle) and mining (silver, copper, iron, lead, arsenic ores and other minerals). Tourism started to gain significance only in the late 19th century.