PLANAI & HOCH WURZEN
Centre of the Schladming 4-Mountain Ski Swing

Largest skiing destination in Styria
Both skiing mountains, Planai and Hochwurzen, in Schladming and Rohrmoos are by far the largest and most famous skiing destination in Styria. Every day, over 15.000 guests can easily move around the ski region.

PLANAI
On the Planai, sporty skiers and speedy slope racers are truly in their element. Legendary is the 4,6 km long Fis descent from the summit of the Planai down into the valley of the famous Planai target slope as the final crowning moment. However, more relaxed winter athletes are also as happy as clams to be on the broad, inviting slopes, or on the continuous racing course of the “Quick Shot Slope”. The tavern “Planai Genussspechte” provides one with the needed refreshments between times.

HOCHWURZEN
Skiers, snowboarders, tobogganists, and winter hikers take off from Hochwurzen – day and night! Broad, long descents sets skiers’ hearts racing, beginners and families are content with offers for children and easier slopes. The evening continues on with evening tobogganing (7 km long toboggan run), night skiing (3 km of flood light slopes) and Après Ski! Snowboarders and freestyle-skiers can indulge themselves on the Playground Hochwurzen!

Austrian Leading Company
The Planai-Bahnen (Planai Rails) is the leading Austrian company in the cable car branch. Many innovations came from Planai-Bahnen, which were later employed all over Austria. It was a pioneer in the development of snowing facilities (first attempts as early as 1978), greening ski slopes (development of own alpine seed mixes for long-term tests), creating the most up-to-date ascent supports, constructing a chat-room at a height of 1900 m, as well as the successful introduction of the first “Ski ECG” (Electrocardiogram) in the Austrian ski region during the 2004/2005 season! The new cable car facilities “Golden Jet”, with its special architecture, sets new highlights at the valley station.

Winter offers:

• Centre of the Schladming 4-Mountain Ski Swing with 115 slope kilometres and 46 cable cars & ski lifts
• 3000 m floodlight slopes on Hochwurzen
• Music slope
• Playground Hochwurzen for snowboarders and alpine skiers
• 7 km toboggan run (day and night) on Hochwurzen
• 23 cozy ski lodges
• Permanent race courses
• Quick Shot Slopes
• Hopsi Kiddie Land
• Internet chat-room at 1.900 m in the Planai mountain station, internet terminal at the Golden Jet valley station.
• E-Mail-Flash-Blitz
• Ski-line/“Ski ECG“

SECURITY AND SERVICE
So that your day of skiing is completely perfect...

• PLANAI INFOPOINT
Our employees at “Planai Infopoint” not only assist you in finding accommodation, they are also more than happy to answer any of your questions and help you with any of your concerns! “One Stop Shop” at “Planai Infopoint”: from accommodation searches to recreational tips.

• HELMET RENTAL FREE-OF-CHARGE
Protect your head! At our Infopoint, you can rent helmets for children and adults at no additional costs! You can rent a helmet up to one week for a deposit of 10 euros (you will receive the money back upon helmet return).

• SLOPE SECURITY
Since the season of 2004/2005, employees of the Slope Security have constantly been on the go along the slopes of the Planai and Hochwurzen – to provide you with assistance, information and also to monitor the opening hours of the slopes.

International Sports Stage

The first Men’s World Cup race took place on the Planai in 1973 – and Franz Klammer, who took the gold in his first World Cup race, rose to fame. Since then, international ski events have been carried out over thirty times on the Planai with special highlights: 1982 Alpine World Ski Championships, European Snowboarding Championships, Olympic World Youth Winter Games, Junior World Ski Championships, etc.
The annual highlight is the Men’s Wold Cup Floodlight Race at the target slope on the Planai. The largest floodlight facilities in Europe for alpine purposes draws round 50.000 fans, where night becomes day. Merely the indirect returns of this annual event are quoted by experts at round € 6,6 mln.
Meanwhile, the Night Slalom on the Planai is one of the largest Alpine spectacles in the world, after Kitzbühel. With an audience rate of over 1,8 mln viewers (Austria), the Night Slalom is one of the most popular programs on ORF (Austrian national television channel). Every time this event takes place – the next one is scheduled on January 22, 2008 –Schladming becomes one big party location.
During the course of the winter season, there are round 10 other large events taking place, which also attract thousands of viewers. At the top is the Planai-Classic (event for old-timers and skiing legends), the Austrian Winter Giants (event for strength trainers), etc.

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