A dreamlike winter on the Weissensee, just as the end of the season is announced
A winter on the Weissensee does everyone good, all the more so when conditions there are this favourable. Meanwhile the ice team has announced the day the season ends. Here is the date.
The end of the skating season is here after all
The lovely thing about the Weissensee is that the mountain lake offers a reasonable kind of ice guarantee. Every season there is a thick sheet of ice, this time as much as 55 cm.
From the Netherlands comes an outright migration of skating enthusiasts wanting to try the Austrian natural ice.
They usually come at the end of January and the start of February, when the Alternative Dutch 11-City Tour on the programme is on. This season that tour was cancelled because of corona (as it was last time).
Apart from that organised tour, recreational skating was possible. So enthusiasts enjoyed the handsome sheet of ice after all. And now the end of the season is here.
Weissensee: the date the season ends
“This coming weekend brings an end to the current winter – and with it the ice season on the Weissensee”, says Bernhard Jank at natureislauf.at.
“On Sunday 6 March we will start up the ice equipment for the last time”, the ice team member says. “That will leave around 75 sensational days behind us.”
The youngest son of ice master Norbert speaks of a remarkable winter. “With barely a single day on which the sun did not shine in a blue sky from early till late.
A dreamlike winter on the Weissensee
The Austrian mountain lake fairly regularly ushers in dreamlike images . But this season there is almost constant Kaiserwetter.
Earlier spoke Bernhard had already spoken of a dreamlike winter on the Weissensee. “We wish all our friends and guests a fine end to the winter. See you at the lake?”
The ice team sounds plainly enthusiastic, and that is easy to understand. Last year the mountain lake gave way under 1.40 metres of snow. Norbert escaped from the water at the time.
Wonderful conditions on Europe's skating lakes
The Weissensee was not the only place with plenty of skating this winter. Skaters took to the St. Moritzersee in Switzerland, for instance.
And the Italian Haidersee (small track, great fun) proved suitable for recreational use.
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