{"id":29,"date":"2010-12-30T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T06:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lancemcgrath.com\/?p=29"},"modified":"2010-12-30T07:46:23","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T06:46:23","slug":"ski-trip-hoch-ybrig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lancemcgrath.com\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Ski Trip: Hoch-Ybrig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Half a dozen ski trips in December is not bad, not too bad at all. Number six turned out to be a trip to a small place in Kanton Schwyz that\u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;ve been meaning to try for a while, a place called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoch-ybrig.ch\">Hoch-Ybrig<\/a>. Even the name screams out its rural nature; it&#8217;s in the region of Ybrig, but just &#8220;hoch&#8221; (high) up! Having heard one or two things about it I wasn&#8217;t expecting too much, but I figured I&#8217;d check it out.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=d&amp;source=s_d&amp;saddr=Z%C3%BCrich+HB,+City+8001+Z%C3%BCrich,+Schweiz&amp;daddr=Hoch-Ybrig,+8843+Oberiberg,+Schweiz&amp;hl=de&amp;geocode=FQ7t0gId6E-CACmf_JTxCAqQRzHmxAbqSR1ycQ%3BFY1SzQIdnxSGACmR1_xpvEmFRzE7dgmzxrtR6A&amp;mra=ltm&amp;dirflg=r&amp;ttype=dep&amp;date=30%2F12%2F10&amp;time=7:23am&amp;noexp=0&amp;noal=0&amp;sort=def&amp;sll=47.193445,8.669586&amp;sspn=0.494589,1.231842&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=47.193445,8.670959&amp;spn=0.36988,0.27903&amp;start=0&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of those places that&#8217;s kind of ridiculous to get to by train; it takes almost twice as long as by car. Fortunately, some German friends of mine were heading over, so I took a 20 minute train to Zug then rode over with them for another 50 minutes, thus shaving 40 minutes off my travel time. Turns out Matthias is a much better skier than I gave him credit for, and far better than me; the man could fly down the slopes.<\/p>\n<p>The snow was kind of crappy, which has little to do with the resort, so I&#8217;d like to go back and try it sometime when the snow is better. There were 3 primary chairlifts but almost no lines most of the time, and there were some fairly steep fun pistes. It&#8217;s the sort of place where you can see any piste from any other, though, so you don&#8217;t have the wandering feel of exploring a mountain. All in all fun for a day trip, but I wouldn&#8217;t put in on the &#8220;must visit&#8221; list, despite a typically Swiss panorama (I didn&#8217;t get any shots, but at the top of this page you can see a borrowed picture of the mountain).<\/p>\n<p>Two points did stand out as being worth noting, though. First, there were more restaurants per skier than any other mountain I&#8217;ve ever been on. There must have been a seperate restaurant on every piste! Some at the top, some at the bottom, some halfway down; in any case, I had a good raclette for lunch.<\/p>\n<p>Second, I saw more pairs of St\u00c3\u00b6ckli skis there than I have ever seen before. A local brand, I purchased a pair last year and have always been surprised by how few I&#8217;ve seen at the bigger resorts, where people apparently prefer Head and Rossignol and other big-name brands. Apparently more local Swiss ski at Hoch-Ybrig, however, and like people everywhere, they prefer to buy local.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if you&#8217;re in the area, give Hoch-Ybrig a try; but not till you&#8217;ve already had your fill of the bigger placse like Flims-Laax or Davos (or even Flumserberg).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half a dozen ski trips in December is not bad, not too bad at all. Number six turned out to be a trip to a small place in Kanton Schwyz that\u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;ve been meaning to try for a while, a place called Hoch-Ybrig. 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