Scenes from the Road: Ramsau am Dachstein Edition

For the second year in a row, I’m spending the last weeks of October with Team Sjusjoen in the Austrian mountain town of Ramsau. It’s a tiny town about a half-hour outside Salzburg, Austria (think Mozart’s hometown), but awell-traveled location in the cross-country ski world. This is for several reasons. The rolling valley offers great trails for both relaxed skiing and tough efforts on their World Cup courses. Full-pension hotels are everywhere here, and the price is reasonable (40-50 euros a night), especially so for European. And perhaps the most important reason – there’s plentiful snow come wintertime. And, thanks to the Dachstein Glacier that sits up among the clouds in this picture, there’s skiing year round.