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Skiing

High Tatras

Although the most of tourists come to Tatras during the summer, a large amount of people like skiing in Tatras. A higher sea level provides good skiing conditions in some resorts until May. In the area of Tatras there was built a lot of ski resorts. The most important are:

Hrebienok (1310 m)
There is a cableway connecting Hrebienok resort with Stary Smokovec and also there were created three downhill slopes: Hrebienok 1 – it is “Horna luka“ that has the inclination of 200m and it is hard level. Hrebienok 2 – “Dolna Luka“ is ideal for the beginners. Hrebienok - Stary Smokovec – a downhill slope is mostly intermediate level and it is 3200 m long. The children like these downhill slopes as well as a bobsleigh track and a sledge route from Hrebienok to Stary Smokovec.

Ski resort Strbske Pleso (1350 m)
There is sport complex FIS and in the year 1970 the World championship took a place there and every year some of the world winter competitions take a place there. In the ski areal there are six ski lifts and two chair lifts with a total transport capacity 3750 persons per hour. The skiers can use three downhill slopes that are mostly intermediate level: Interski, Esicko, Solisko. Around 80% of all slopes are provided with a facility for high pressure snowmaking. In the ski areal there are cross-county ski tracks and technical facilities were completed with two jumps that have two critical point (120 m and 90 m high). There is also many professional ski instructors to learn the visitors how to ski. The visitors can be accommodated directly in the area of ski resort in sport hotel FIS providing 25 m long swimming pool, a sauna, a fitness centre, a ski store and a ski rental. Whole areal of ski resort is situated in mountains at a height from 1350 m to 1860 m (a top cable railway station in Solisko). The prices of ski tickets are higher then in other resorts because of a higher quality of offered services. The prices reach the maximum during the Christmas holidays.

Zdiar – Bachledova dolina (860 m)
The resort is situaied outside of the High Tatras city area but it is very suitable for the unexperienced skiers and for the school ski courses. Three downhill slopes are mostly beginner to intermediate level. There is a chair lift with the capacity of 1350 persons per hour and also two ski lifts.

Zdiar – Strednica (900 m)
The downhill slopes lying on the foot of Belianske Tatras are not very steep, so the ski season can start when a snow depth reachs 30 cm. The downhill slopes do not provide the conditions for the intermediates and experienced skiers, so they are suitable for the families with the small children and for the beginners. With the capacity of 5530 persons per hour it is the biggest ski resort in High Tatras.

Tatranska Lomnica – Jamy (850 m)
There is only one downhill slope that has the capacity of 720 persons per hour and provides an advantage of high pressure snowmaking and because of this it is regarded to be a quality downhill slope for the beginners and the intermediates.

Skalnate Pleso (1750 m)
It is the higher and best resort for ...skiing in High tatras lying at an altitude from 1750 m to 2200 m. There are quality downhill slopes, two are hard level, especially downhill slope “French mudla“ is very extreme. There is also a downhill slope from Skalnate Pleso to Tatranska Lomnica. It is 4800 m long and it is intermediate level. The winter season starts later than in other resorts, because the resort does not provide an advantage of high pressure snowmaking, but it is possible to ski there until a half of May. Sometimes there are the problems with the avalanches that fall from Lomnicke sedlo, but there were built the barriers.

In the area of Tatras there are also another downhill slopes such as Podbanske, Tatranska Lesna or Smokovec. In Smokovec there is a famous “Jakubkova luka“, that has 853 m long downhill slope. The resorts was built especially for the beginners and for the intermediates. The resorts provides also the ski schools for the tourists who would like to learn how to ski. The schools such as Crystal Ski (Strbske Pleso), T-Ski (Stary Smokovec) or JMG_Ski (Strbske Pleso) provide also a ski rental and a ski equipment rental. During the summer the schools organise a lot of sport activities such as rafting, a horse riding, mountain cycling, etc.