‘Wonderful ice news’, high hopes for the ice and #AEW23
The noises around #AEW23 are decidedly positive. Local media speak of wonderful ice news, and the local ice team is enthusiastic too. The outlook seems favourable for the 2023 Alternative Dutch 11-City Tour.
Weissensee News speaks this evening of ‘wonderful ice news’. “(…) The track is being widened back to an optimal width. The coming nights will be very cold, down to -10 degrees Celsius”.
“Very optimistic”, says local ice team member Bernhard Jank today on natureislauf.at about the current state of the ice. “For now the tracks are being swept further and prepared as well as possible.”
- “With cold and dry weather the length and width of the track will improve quickly. We are optimistic that the weather gods are on our side and that the season on the ice will go on for a long time.”
The Dutch organisation Weissensee Alternative Dutch 11-City Tour (AEW) points to the weather trends. “It is getting seriously cold on the Weissensee”, the organisation said, and saw, as early as last Monday.
Monday was a tense moment, as it happens. Snow fell and the mountain lake had to close to recreation for a while. But on Tuesday the track partly reopened. And now skating is fully possible again.
How thick is the ice on the Weissensee?
The ice on the Weissensee is currently 17 cm thick. The ice is expected to get considerably thicker still. This concerns the ‘small’ lake, the so-called west part. The east part (the ‘large’ lake) is not there yet.
#AEW23
On Tuesday 24 and Friday 27 January there are 200 km tours for recreational skaters. This is the first week of ‘#AEW23’, the shortened name for the event.
After that there are more tours, on Tuesday 31 January and Friday 3 February. That is the second and final week of the skating festival. Both weeks draw thousands of Dutch visitors.
Where is the Alternative Dutch 11-City Tour?
The Weissensee Alternative Dutch 11-City Tour is in Carinthia, a southern state of Austria. Carinthian tourism stands for zest for life. A skating holiday fits that picture.
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