Apres Ski Meaning: What It Is, When It Starts & Where

The apres ski meaning is no mystery — it is French for “after skiing” — and yet apres ski is the one part of a ski trip nobody has to practice and people still manage to get wrong. We lived on an alpine pasture in the Chiemgau region of Bavaria for fifteen years, ran our own ski lift up there, and at some point started building Shotskis. And why après-ski exists at all has more to do with skiing itself than you would think.

Last updated: 28 September 2026

The short version:

• Pronunciation: “ah-PRAY skee” — the s in “après” stays silent
• Dress code: ski gear stays on, ski boots included
• How long: two to three hours up at the hut, then a second round down in the valley
• Drinks: Jagertee, Glühwein (mulled wine), clear fruit schnapps, hot chocolate
• The symbol: the Shotski — one ski, several glasses, everybody drinks at the same moment
• Works without a mountain: in American English, “apres” has turned into a lifestyle word of its own

💡 By the way: we built the SwigSki3000® for exactly this ritual. More on it further down ↓

Apres Ski Meaning: The Short Answer

So what is apres ski? It is the party that starts the second the ski day ends — and it looks like this: at half past three half the hut is standing on the benches, sixty pairs of skis are jammed into the snow outside, and nobody has changed. It is louder in the Austrian strongholds, quieter in France and Switzerland — the basic pattern is the same everywhere.

The one thing that sets it apart from every other party: it starts in the afternoon, in daylight, in ski boots. That is exactly where apres ski gets its energy — people walk in straight off the mountain, with the adrenaline of the last run still in them.

And yes, in the famous strongholds there are plenty of guests who never set foot on a piste. Something is missing for us then — the best part of apres ski is that everyone came down the same mountain. In American English the word has drifted even further from the slope, all the way into brunch menus and gym flyers: more on that below.

Why Après-Ski Exists at All

Originally it was simply the break: skiing is hard work, so you sit down. Today the afternoon afterwards is the actual reason for the trip for a lot of people. Why that break grew into a culture of its own has everything to do with the sport:

Skiing is an individual sport — but one where you are watched.

Think about the lift. On the chairs above you sit people with nothing to do, looking down. At the slope. At you. Every skier knows this instinctively, and everybody rides the section under the lift line a little differently from the rest of the run. You do this sport alone, and you have an audience the entire time.

Which makes everyone on the mountain a small-scale hero — the one who took the steep face, the one who skied around it, and the one who fell over getting off the chair most of all. You spend the whole day doing something other people saw.

And après-ski is where that heroism gets celebrated together afterwards. That is why one beer on your own is not enough, and why everybody there tells everybody else about their day. It is also why the rituals that work best up there are the ones you can only pull off as a group.

If you ever wondered why our brand is called Apres Allstars: that is why. And it is why we built the SwigSki3000®, a thing that only works in a group.

When Does Apres Ski Start — and How Long Does It Last?

In most ski resorts apres ski starts at around 3pm — so while the lifts are still turning. At the MooserWirt in St. Anton, a cult address since 1989, apres-ski runs from 3:30pm to 8pm sharp, a schedule plenty of huts across the Alps have copied.

The hut stays open a lot longer than the slopes. Those close between 4:00 and 4:30pm, the huts somewhere between 5 and 8pm depending on where they sit. The individual guest stays two to three hours — stay longer and you are not skiing down anymore. Whoever keeps going after that does it in the valley, where normal bar hours apply.

A typical apres ski afternoon runs like this:

• From 3:00pm — the arrival. Skis go into the snow outside, everybody pushes inside, the first round gets ordered. People are still talking about the day. Some huts have music running from 2pm, but it only fills up now.
• From 3:30pm — the hut fills up. The music gets louder, the first people climb onto the benches.
• Around 4:00pm — the decision. If you want to ski down yourself, you have to leave before the lifts close. If you stay, plan for the ski bus or a taxi. This is the most important moment of the afternoon.
• From 4:30pm — the peak. Whoever stayed has no appointment left. This is where the stuff apres ski is famous for actually happens.
• From about 6pm — the second half, down in the valley. Somewhere between 5 and 8pm the hut closes and everybody who stayed moves on to the bars at the base station. From there it is a normal party in ski pants.

One thing that surprises people on their first ski trip: the afternoon is the main event, not the evening. If you go looking for the big party at 10pm, in a lot of resorts you are late — by then most people are long since eating dinner or asleep, because the first lift goes again in the morning.

Apres Ski, Après-Ski or Apre Ski — Spelling and Pronunciation

The correct spelling is “après-ski” — with an accent grave on the e and with a hyphen, because that is how the French original works. In everyday English both have quietly disappeared: “apres ski” without accent and without hyphen is what almost everybody types, simply because no keyboard hands you an accent in passing. Dictionaries list the accented form, French-style with the hyphen (après-ski) and, in English writing, just as often without it (après ski); search boxes see the bare one.

Variants you will run into everywhere:

• Après-ski — the correct French spelling, accent grave plus hyphen
• Apres ski — the form most English speakers write, two words, no accent
• Apres-ski — the mixed form: hyphen, no accent
• Apre ski, aprés ski, apres skiing, alpreski — the misspellings that show up every winter; “apre ski” with the s missing is the most common one in English

None of them gets misunderstood. Somebody writing “apre ski” means the same thing as somebody writing “après-ski”. The one that is furthest off is “aprés” with an accent aigu, the stroke leaning right: in French the accent leans the other way, because the e is spoken open — a stroke to the right would close it. It is the single most common accent mistake in English-language apres ski writing, ours included, until somebody pointed it out.

How Do You Pronounce Apres Ski?

You say it “ah-PRAY skee”. The s in “après” is silent — so it is not “ah-press ski”, even though that is how English-speakers usually read it off the page. The è is an open e, closer to the vowel in “bed” than to “ee”, and the r is the soft French one, not the American one; “ah-PREH skee” is just as good. The stress sits on the second syllable of après, and the whole thing runs together as three syllables: ah-PRAY-skee. In German the stress often moves to “ski” at the end instead, and both are considered correct.

If you want the literal translation to go with it: après is French for “after”, ski is ski. So in plain English, apres ski means “after skiing” — nothing more mysterious than that. And up at the hut you will hear every version anyway, from clean French to a broad “ah-press-ski” shouted across the room. You will be understood either way. Where the German versions come from and what “apres” literally means has an article of its own.

Where the Term Apres Ski Comes From

The word is older than the hut party. Around 1900, après-ski meant what it literally says: the evening after a cold day in the mountains — good food, wine, no sound system. It became a term for everybody in the 1950s in the French Alps, when ski tourism exploded; as a word it is documented there from 1954. The first après-ski venues were plain bistros at the edge of the slope where you warmed up with vin chaud. Austrian innkeepers, in St. Anton for example, later borrowed the French term for their own, considerably louder version — visible from the 1950s and 60s, sold as a package product from the 1980s on.

That is the short version. The whole development from mountain farmhouse to cult bar, with the pioneers and the role of the Arlberg, is in our own article: the history of apres ski.

The Classics: What People Drink and Eat at Apres Ski

What gets drunk is mostly hot and spiked, Jagertee and Glühwein leading the way, with clear schnapps alongside. What gets eaten is heavy: Kaiserschmarrn, Brettljause, Tiroler Gröstl. Both have the same job — getting you warm again fast after a day in the cold.

The Drinks

• Jagertee — black tea, rum, red wine and spices; the name translates roughly as “hunter's tea”. Officially only Austria may use it: Jagertee, Jagatee and Jägertee are protected names across the EU. Outside the EU that protection does not apply, so a bar in Colorado can call its version whatever it likes. The closest thing on an American menu is a hot toddy.
• Glühwein — mulled wine: red wine with cinnamon, cloves and orange. The safe entry point for anybody who finds Jagertee too rough.
• Williams pear brandy and Obstler — the clear fruit schnapps that traditionally go onto the Shotski — four glasses at a time with ours, see the SwigSki3000®.
• Hot chocolate with a shot — amaretto, Baileys or rum. Works even for the people who were not going to drink.
• Feuerzangenbowle — the show drink, for when somebody wants to put on a performance: a rum-soaked sugar cone set alight over mulled wine.

All the recipes with measurements are in our apres ski drinks guide, the modern versions in the cocktail guide.

The Food

The part that decides how your evening goes: eat properly up at the hut and you get through the afternoon without drama.

The most ordered dish is Kaiserschmarrn — shredded, caramelized pancake that counts as a dessert and gets eaten as a main. For a group, Brettljause is the better call: a cold platter of cured speck, cheese and bread that sits in the middle of the table. If you need something hot, take Tiroler Gröstl, pan-fried potatoes with speck and a fried egg on top. Cheese fondue and raclette are more Switzerland than Tyrol, but they work best for big groups, because everybody stays seated for the same length of time.

In detail, with recipes: apres ski food.

The Shotski: Apres Ski Symbol Number One

If apres ski has one symbol, it is the Shotski: a ski with several glass holders that a whole row of people lifts together, everybody tipping it back at the same moment. The ritual grew up in American ski towns, above all in Park City and Breckenridge, which have been arguing over the longest Shotski for years — who did it first is disputed. From there it travelled the other way across the Atlantic, and today a Shotski hangs behind the bar from Ischgl to Saalbach. The trick is in the timing, not the speed; finishing first wins you nothing.

Why this particular object became the symbol fits what is written above: the Shotski is the only drinking vessel you cannot use alone. Four people, one ski, one command. For three seconds, four individual athletes turn into a team. And the picture that ends up on a phone afterwards is always the same one: four in a row, a wooden ski across, everybody on the count. No apres ski photo works more reliably. Which length suits which group, and what matters if you build one yourself, is in our Shotski guide.

How the SwigSki Came About

We did not invent the thing, but we have built an awful lot of them. The five of us shared a house on the LiftlaOim on the Zinnkopf in the Chiemgau for fifteen years. The name of the pasture was earned: we really did have our own lift up there — for the first few years one of the last Wankel-engine tows. That is a gasoline engine the size of a backpack that pulls a steel cable. You clip in with a small handle and get dragged uphill. That lift is in a Wankel engine museum today. After it, we built ourselves a rope tow in the garden and ran a funpark on the hill.

For birthdays and weddings we gave away the same present for years: a homemade Shotski, back then just glasses glued onto an old ski. It went over so well that at the ISPO trade show in Munich in January 2020 — where we were actually presenting our inflatable roof rack ShredRack and won the ISPO Brandnew Award for it — we put a 3D-printed Shotski prototype on the booth as an eye-catcher. The crowd around that prototype was big enough that it became obvious at the show: this has to be a product of its own. And a brand of its own.

So we sold bindings and glasses separately at first, so everybody could build their own. Two things came out of that: most people do not want to do woodwork, they want a finished piece. And we did not want to ship whole skis around the world. The answer to both was the same idea — a modular Shotski you plug together to match your group size and that still fits in a normal parcel.

Music: Schlager, Hüttengaudi — and the New DJ Culture on the Mountain

Schlager always works at apres ski, and there is no point dressing that up. Schlager is German-language pop built for singing along: “Hulapalu”, “Cordula Grün”, “Schatzi schenk mir ein Foto”, plus Mickie Krause and DJ Ötzi. These songs work because everybody in the room knows the chorus. You do not have to like the music to sing it — that is the whole point of it.

Listen closely and you can hear three kinds of hut music taking over from each other across the afternoon:

• The alpine classics. “Schifoan” by Wolfgang Ambros has been part of it since 1976, along with folk-music borrowings and anything that sounds like a wooden room. Plays early, while people are still talking.
• Party Schlager. Once the hut is full, the same repertoire that runs at Oktoberfest takes over. Short choruses, clapping along, very little text to remember.
• Party versions and chart remixes. German-language covers of international hits, often the exact titles that ran on Mallorca in the summer. Which is why half the playlist sounds familiar even if you have never been in a ski hut.

The list grows every season: alongside the permanent fixtures, new titles arrive each winter and old ones come back through TikTok — DJ Ötzi's “Tirol”, for example. When people search for Austrian apres ski songs, this is the catalogue they mean; the genre really is Austrian and German to the core.

Schlager stopped being the only option a while ago. More and more huts and mountain bars book DJs whose sets would work at a city festival, and skip the Schlager playlist entirely. The link between techno and ski resorts started in Austria: Rave on Snow ran for the first time in Sölden in 1994 and has been based in Saalbach-Hinterglemm since 1996. The big multi-day festivals now sit mostly in France — which dates exist in Austria is in our overview of winter festivals.

For you that means one thing above all: check which kind of music a resort plays before you book. The gap between a Schlager hut and a mountain festival is wider than the gap between two ski areas. If you are after a playlist for home, the apres ski hits are the place to look — those are the titles that actually run during the season.

The Best-Known Apres Ski Spots in the Alps

The famous ones are Ischgl, St. Anton, Mayrhofen, Saalbach-Hinterglemm and Sölden — plus Verbier, Val Thorens and Livigno. If you have heard apres ski described as an Austrian thing, that is because it largely is: the loudest addresses sit in Tyrol and Salzburg, and so does the music. What gets lost in the usual party lists is something else, though: the resorts with the rowdiest reputation are almost always the ones with the best skiing. We have been in the Alps since we were kids, and our sets sit in sport shops and hotels from Flachau through the Zillertal to Ischgl and the Arlberg — we noticed the same thing everywhere.

Austria — the Heartland

• Ischgl (Tyrol): the best-known apres ski address anywhere, with bars right at the bottom of the valley run — and at the same time excellent freeride terrain, if you know where to point your skis.
• St. Anton am Arlberg (Tyrol): steeped in history, seriously demanding, with one of the most famous final descents in the Alps. It is also home to the MooserWirt, the Arlberg's best-known apres ski address since 1989.
• Mayrhofen (Zillertal, Tyrol): the address for anybody who wants party and snowpark in one trip — the PenkenPark, known for years as the Vans Penken Park, is among the best-known in the Alps.
• Saalbach-Hinterglemm (Salzburg): around 60 huts inside the ski area, plus the bars down in the villages and the enormous Skicircus. Same principle as Ischgl, spread over more ground.
• Sölden (Tyrol): skiing from October on the glacier — the first apres ski round of the season happens here, while everywhere else is still grass.
• Kitzbühel (Tyrol): expensive and a notch more grown-up than Ischgl — until the Hahnenkamm race arrives in January and the town turns into something else entirely for a week.

Switzerland, France, Italy

• Verbier and Zermatt (Switzerland): international crowd, Swiss prices, the best terrain off the groomed runs.
• Val Thorens (France): the highest apres ski address in Europe, with snow well into late season.
• Les Deux Alpes, Tignes and Serre Chevalier (France): this is where the festival culture sits, with multi-day electronic events in the middle of the ski area.
• Livigno and Cortina d'Ampezzo (Italy): Livigno is cheap thanks to its duty-free status and busy for the same reason, while Cortina — Olympic host in 2026 and already in 1956 — treats the afternoon as an aperitivo, stylish and a lot quieter.

A detailed verdict on individual huts is in our overview of apres ski bars. And if you are going with a group for the first time: how to plan a hut weekend with friends and what belongs on the ski trip packing list have guides of their own.

What Does “Apres” Mean on Its Own?

In American English, “apres” has become a word in its own right. It turns up on menus, on event flyers and in bar names with no ski resort within a thousand miles: apres club, apres vibes, apres all day. The logic behind all of them is the same — apres is the part that comes after the effort, and the effort no longer has to be skiing.

That is not a misuse of the word, it is the word doing what borrowed French does in English: après means “after”, full stop. Après-ski just happened to be the phrase that carried it over. Once English speakers had the piece in hand, they used it on everything.

• Apres bar / apres lounge — a bar with a ski-lodge feel: wood, fire, blankets, hot drinks. Often nowhere near a mountain.
• Apres club — the version with a dance floor and a DJ; in the Alps it is the place you move to once the hut closes.
• Apres party — the party after the activity, whatever the activity was. In a ski resort, that is the hut from 3pm.
• Apres all day — the joke that gave up on the skiing part: the bar opens when the lift does. Printed on more hoodies than we can count.
• Apres vibes — the mood, not the event: warm light, wool, a hot drink, no rush. What people mean when they say a room has apres vibes.
• Apres food — the heavy, warming plate that goes with it: cheese, cured meat, pan-fried potatoes, anything that repairs a cold day.
• Apres-hockey, apres-surf, apres-hike, apres-coffee — the transfer to every other sport. Once “after” is a noun, everything has an apres.

And then there is the ski party with no mountain at all. An apres ski theme party is its own format in the US: the ski sweaters come out, the goggles go on top of the head, somebody sets a snow machine on the deck. Two things matter if you throw one. The look has to replace the mountain — wood, warm light, skis on the wall — because in a hut the surroundings do the work, and in a rented room you do it yourself. And rituals have to carry the evening, because without a shared ski day, the thing everybody was going to talk about is missing. That can be the Shotski, a game like shot roulette, a round of funny dares for adults or one of the apres ski games.

How an evening like that is put together as an apres ski party has a guide of its own. And if you want to build a whole theme party out of it, the full plan is in our guide to the apres ski theme party.

What to Wear for Apres Ski

Apres ski without ski clothes looks strange, and there is a practical reason for it: you come straight off the slope and you want to ski down afterwards, so you do not change. Out of that necessity grew a uniform.

What actually counts up at the hut is less fashion than practicality:

• The ski boots stay on. They are slippery on a wooden hut floor and worse on a bench — most of the bruises of the afternoon happen getting up from the table.
• One layer you can take off. A packed hut gets hot fast, and it is five below outside. If you cannot get out of your jacket, you are cooking in your own sweat within twenty minutes.
• Gloves and hat go into the jacket, not onto the table. Otherwise both stay behind, reliably.
• Goggles up, sunglasses on. The classic photo, and genuinely practical, because the afternoon sun on the terrace is blinding.
• Different rules apply in the village. In Ischgl you may neither wear ski boots nor carry skis through the center between 8pm and 6am — and it is expensive if you do. If you are moving on in the evening, change your shoes first.

One detail that gets noticed at the hut immediately: hang a ski-boot glass on a lanyard around your neck and you have both hands free while carrying your schnapps. The lanyards come with our set; the rest of the apres ski accessories is in the shop.

At home or at a theme party the same idea applies: ask your guests to turn up in a ski sweater, headband and sunglasses. Anybody arriving too civilian gets a headband out of the spare box — that breaks the ice in about thirty seconds. What else works is over at the apres ski outfit ideas, and what counts as good manners at the hut is in our 10 commandments of apres ski.

Apres Ski at Home: Bringing the Hut Feeling Into Your Living Room

Not everybody has a week in Ischgl in the budget. With the right setup your living room becomes a believable mountain hut — it takes three things, and none of them is expensive.

1. The Right Decor

Wooden elements, warm light instead of the ceiling lamp, Miniski and mini ski poles on the table. Detailed instructions are in the decoration guide and in our decor ideas with budget tiers.

2. The Right Drinks

Jagertee or Glühwein at minimum, plus a clear schnapps, ideally an apres ski cocktail like the hot Hugo. Recipes are with the drink classics and the cocktail recipes.

3. The Smell of the Hut

The trick almost nobody thinks of. A real hut smells of Swiss pine — warm, resinous, faintly sweet. That smell is the fastest route into the hut feeling, because a scent fills a room before anyone notices the decor, and it works with no alcohol at all. How to dose it, how long it lasts and what is actually behind the much-quoted Swiss pine effect is in the guide to Swiss pine room scent.

And the piece that turns living-room decor into a hut evening sits behind the bar in every hut in the Alps.

Alcohol-Free: Apres Ski Works Without It Too

Apres ski is a ritual, not a blood alcohol level. The part that makes the mood — everybody together, loud music, the ritual — works exactly the same way without. That is simply reality: in every group somebody is driving, somebody is pregnant, somebody does not feel like it or has to be on the first gondola in the morning.

• Alcohol-free Jagertee works with black tea, orange juice, cinnamon and cloves — it looks identical and tastes almost the same.
• Hot chocolate is the best thing to order at a hut anyway, with or without a shot.
• Alcohol-free wheat beer is available almost everywhere in Austria and is seriously good after a day of skiing.
• On the Shotski you fill as many glasses with something else as there are people not drinking. The ritual lives off the shared count, not the contents. With our ski boot glasses nobody can see what is inside anyway. What to put in them is in our recipes for alcohol-free shots.

Where the Fun Stops for Us

The most dangerous moment of a ski day is not the steep face in the morning. It is the run down after the hut. Decide at four to keep going and ski down two hours later anyway, and you are out there in the dark, usually without a headlamp, with cold muscles and noticeably worse judgement. For anybody who is not very solid on skis, that is the riskiest half hour of the week.

Plus the argument hardly anyone knows: the slopes get groomed after closing, and snowcats work with winches — steel cables often more than 1,000 meters (3,300 ft) long, only 10 to 12 millimeters thick, and practically invisible in the dark. At a break in the terrain a cable like that can swing sideways by up to 30 meters (100 ft), under nearly five tons of pull. That is why the slopes are closed then. If you are still up top at that point, you have no business on the descent.

On top of that, alcohol behaves differently in the cold than it feels. It widens the blood vessels, which feels warm — in fact the body loses heat faster and registers the cold less well. Willingness to take risks and overestimation of your own ability rise from around 0.2 per mille (0.02 % blood alcohol), while reaction time gets worse.

So: either down before the valley run closes — or stay up and take the ski bus or a taxi.

And then there is the reputation as cheap booze tourism. Apres ski brought part of that on itself. What interests us is the afternoon with the group, not the volume in the glass.

Some resorts are drawing conclusions: Sölden, Ischgl, Mayrhofen and Fiss have or recently had a ban on alcohol in public spaces — on streets and squares, not on the slopes and not inside the venues, beer gardens included. So it affects the walk between bars, not the bar. In Sölden, fines of up to €2,000 were on the books. We think that is the right call. These ordinances are sometimes limited to a single season and get reissued every year — worth a quick look at the municipal website before you travel. (As of September 2026.) In detail, with all the hut etiquette: the apres ski etiquette guide.

Who Writes This

Behind Apres Allstars are Michi and Tobi, two guys from Munich. We both learned to ski as kids and spent years with season passes for Tyrol and Salzburg, in the Alps every weekend.

Tobi is a professional skier, freeskier, sport model and stuntman — the season openers on the glaciers in the Stubai, Hintertux, at the Kitzsteinhorn and in Sölden, the ski movie premieres and the parties afterwards have been part of his winter for years. More at model.tobideckert.de and on Instagram at @tobi_deckert.

Our products come out of that experience. They are made by hand at Caritas Wendelstein and the Pidinger Lebenshilfe workshops — a collaboration we are rather proud of.

Frequently Asked Questions About Apres Ski

What does apres ski mean in English?

Apres ski comes from the French “après-ski” and literally means “after skiing”. It covers all the social activities that follow a day on the slopes: eating, drinking, music and dancing in mountain huts, bars or hotels. In Austria and Germany the term stands especially for the loud hut-party culture; in France and Switzerland it is often a more elegant affair.

When does apres ski start and how long does it last?

In most ski resorts from around 3pm, so during the last hour of lift service. It fills up around half past three. The slopes close between 4:00 and 4:30pm, the huts between 5 and 8pm depending on location; the individual guest stays two to three hours. If you want to ski down yourself, leave in good time — the valley run is closed in the evening, grooming starts after that, and the descent gets considerably riskier.

How do you pronounce apres ski?

You say it “ah-PRAY skee”. The s in “après” is silent, the è is an open e closer to the vowel in “bed” than to “ee”, and the stress sits on the second syllable of après. In German the stress often moves to “ski” at the end, and both versions count as correct.

Is it apres ski or après-ski?

The correct spelling is “après-ski” with an accent grave and a hyphen, which is how dictionaries list it. Everyday English drops both, and “apres ski”, “apres-ski” and even “apre ski” all mean the same thing. The one that is furthest off is “aprés” with the accent leaning the other way — that flips the pronunciation of the e.

What drinks are typical at apres ski?

The classics are Jagertee, Glühwein, Williams pear brandy or Obstler, hot chocolate with a shot and Feuerzangenbowle. More modern options are the hot Hugo and an alpine herb spritz. Without alcohol, Jagertee made from black tea, orange juice and spices works practically as well.

What is an apres ski party — and can you have one without the mountains?

An apres ski party is the afternoon party that follows the ski day, with hut music, hot drinks and group rituals. And yes, it works without mountains — that is the fastest-growing part of the culture, from ski-themed bars to full theme parties. At home you need three things: decor that replaces the mountain, hot drinks — and a ritual that involves the whole group at once, because the shared ski day is missing as a conversation starter.

Sources & Last Updated

Research as of September 2026. Spelling, pronunciation and stress according to Duden; English usage and first attestation according to the Oxford English Dictionary (1954). History of the term according to Morton Lund, “Tea Dance To Disco. Après-Ski Through the Ages” (Skiing Heritage Journal 19/1, 2007). Protected designation of origin for Jagertee, Jagatee and Jägertee according to Genusserbe Bayern and EU Spirit Drinks Regulation 2019/787. Operating hours and apres ski times according to MooserWirt, Ski Arlberg, Silvretta Arena Ischgl, Saalbach and bergfex. Alcohol bans in village centers according to ZDFheute, ORF Tirol, the municipality of Fiss and Snowplaza; the Ischgl ski boot ban according to meinbezirk.at. Slope grooming, winch cables and closures according to ISR Internationale Seilbahn Rundschau, the Pistentouren-Handbuch Tirol and the cableway trade press. Effects of alcohol in the cold according to the German Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA). Music history according to the Wolfgang Ambros discography, Rave on Snow and Snowplaza; festival dates according to Tignes, Serre-Chevalier and Alpe d'Huez. Races and events according to hahnenkamm.com, thenightrace.at and Ski World Cup Sölden. Ski area and freeride assessments according to skiresort.info, saalbach.com, mayrhofen.at, bergfex and schneehoehen; duty-free status of Livigno according to Skiinfo and livigno.eu; Shotski records according to GoBreck and Freeskier. Alcohol rules and opening hours can change every season — worth checking before you travel. All statements about our own history, our products and the ski areas we know ourselves are our own experience.