Snowed In With the Austrian Skiers

(InnerSelf Enabled🎭) Two thousand three hundred and eighty metres up in the Tyrolean Alps, the last chairlift of the day has stopped, the valley has vanished under cloud, and you have just signed on for a whole winter at the Gamsjoch hut. One stone hut, one tiled stove, forty dorm beds and a crew who will be your whole world until April. Resi runs the place and will not let it fail. Zenzi makes the best Kaiserschmarrn in the Oetztal and the worst jokes. Vroni teaches skiing by day and leads the party by night. Kathi digs people out of avalanches with her dog. Burgi drives the snowcat through the dark while everyone sleeps. Krampus night, storms that cut the hut off for days, Christmas by candlelight, torches down the mountain at New Year, the sauna, the stars. A cosy, snowbound slice-of-life romance.