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Horst Nöbl, the weather prophet from Saalfelden, predicts the following for winter 2024-2025
November: beautiful autumn month with lots of sunshine above the fog, end of the month - cold air advance
December: persistently cold and heavy snowfall, white Christmas without significant Christmas thaw
January: persistently cold with further snowfall
February: still cold at the beginning, then fair weather with warming, almost spring-like at the end of the month, high snow cover nevertheless remains
March: above-average temperatures, end of snow cover in the lowlands around March 20
April: beautiful, warm spring month, the snow on the ski slopes nevertheless lasts until Easter. Slight risk of frost at the end of the month!
(Report by Heinz Bayer for the SN on 25.10.2024)

The morning view of our operations manager Georg Dürlinger! 29.06.2024. Georg is actually the shirt-sleeved operations manager of the Schmittenhöhebahn, who obviously has an eye for the beauty of HIS workplace. In any case, Georg gets up early for the morning hike up to the Schmittenhöhe, for a mountaineering breakfast at the Berghotel Schmittenhöhe at 2,000m.

The photo artist Josef (Joe) Müller finds the mountain hotel under the Milky Way ... His impressions just before the summer solstice in June 2024. Joe Müller is an artist from Mittersill - his family comes from South Tyrol - who particularly loves and honors animals and his homeland. In his pictures, he expresses what many do not see, making his impressions worth seeing. Welcome to the world of Joe Müller, to the world of the Berghotel Schmittenhöhe at 2,000m above sea level.

The emperor gazes from the Kaiserblick to the Kaiser Franz Josefs Höhe. The Kaiserblick has been open since July 27 and offers a 270-degree view far across the Alps. Starting with the Watzmann in the Berchtesgaden Alps, the Steinernes Meer, the Hochkönig to the Dachstein with the Niedere Tauern, from the Ankogel to the Goldberg to the Glockner group - with the Grossglockner and the Kitzsteinhorn in front of you - via the Venediger group to the Tux Alps, from the Wilder Kaiser via the Leoganger Steinberge back to the Steinernes Meer. This 360-degree panorama can be found around the Berghotel Schmittenhöhe.

The Felbertauern Samer visiting the Schmittenhöhe on 14 July 2024 The mule trade was vital for the entire Zell am See region, for the Pinzgau and especially for the Upper Pinzgau between the 12th & 18th centuries. Even the Counts of Tyrol and later the Archbishopric of Salzburg earned money from the trade in salt, spices, leather, hides, silver and copper, wine, hops and spices in a lively exchange across the Tauern to the south and across the Schmittenhöhe to the north.

Ines Heidsieck was a guest at the Berghotel Schmittenhöhe and kindly provided us with her impressions from 2,000m above sea level. She looks towards the Dachstein, directly from her room and enjoys the sunrise at the Berghotel Schmittenhöhe. Thank you Ines, come back soon and collect impressions, not just for us!