Kitzbühel next year?

[David Woodhouse]

Thanks again to Jes for arranging this year's trip. Although Avoriaz is
great, we're thinking of going somewhere else next year just for a
little variety.

One option would be to do it on the left-hand-side of the Atlantic,
especially given the current exchange rate. But it's a lot further to
travel for most of the regular attendees, and the US dollar has to be
_really_ low before it offsets the cost of transatlantic flights.

For a start, can we have a show of hands... who's interested in coming
next year if we do it in Europe, and who would be interested if we do it
in the US or Canada instead?¹ 

While that's not a rhetorical question (and I do want to be able to make
a decent guess at numbers), I'm kind of assuming that we'll end up doing
it in Europe next year. Since it's probably also my turn to take a
bigger organisational rôle, I was thinking of Kitzbühel -- since I know
it quite well and it has a fairly wide range of pistes to keep us all
happy.

The place I usually stay is Aurach. It's a few kilometres out of
Kitzbühel and a small place (two hotels, a ski shop and a bar). But you
can ski back down to it in good weather, it's easy enough to get up the
mountain from, and it's cheap and pleasant. Lacks the variety of
restaurants, but it isn't hard to get into Kitzbühel if we want to.
I always maintain that if you can actually manage to get out an make a
real nuisance of yourself in the evenings, you haven't been skiing hard
enough anyway.

I'm in the process of looking at chalets/apartments in Kitzbühel itself
or in Kirchberg, which would be a little more in the centre of things --
and more expensive too.

Opinions?

-- 
dwmw2

¹ If there's a completely disjoint set of 'yes' answers, maybe we should
get someone in the latter set to arrange a parallel trip.