Skiing in the Austrian Alps

This semester I was lucky enough to become friends with a student from Innsbruck Austria named Andy. After finishing finals, we went to his house for a few days to ski. Innsbruck is in the heart of the Alps and was a great place to go outside of France. People were friendly and most could speak English fairly well. The weather was perfect (for skiing) and there was lots of fresh powder on the slopes.

We went to three different resorts outside of town, and two of them had hosted the winter Olympics before. That just made the trip even more special. Every day we would get up early to go skiing and then come home to the family dinner to eat and socialize. One night his mom even made the traditional Austrian wiener schnitzel dish, which was amazing!

I cannot describe in words how beautiful it was from the tops of the mountains. There were Alps as far as the eye can see in the vast landscape. I will let the pictures do the talking for me!

Nathan Larson