Ski season opens in Baden-Württemberg: First lifts in operation – meinKA

After the heavy snowfall in the past few days, the first lifts in Baden-Württemberg have given the starting signal for the 2024 ski season.

The snow that has fallen in the past few days is enough to open the lift on Wednesday and the slope conditions are good, the operator of the Unterstmatt ski lift announced on its website on Wednesday. The Seibelseckle and Ruhestein lifts also gave the green light. The SWR had previously reported.

Winter sports enthusiasts have to be patient on the Feldberg. When asked, the Feldbergbahnen announced that skiing on the highest German mountain north of the Alps would not start until December 1st as planned.

According to the German Weather Service (DWD), the snow depth in the southwest still varies greatly: While only 11 centimeters of snow depth was measured at an altitude of almost 600 meters in the northern Black Forest near Baiersbronn and 15 centimeters of snow depth was measured in Simmersfeld at 720 meters, according to the information it is in the southern Black Forest near Todtmoos 681 meters 21 centimeters and at Eisenbach at over 970 meters even 28 centimeters. According to the DWD, things look similarly different in the Swabian Alb.