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Bled's four main ski areas participate in a joint lift ticket scheme which provides a total of 88km (55 miles) of piste served by 22 lifts. They are all linked by a free ski bus service for pass holders. The nearest ski centre to the resort is at Straza, a new, modern area, constructed in 1990, at a height of 600m and only minutes away from the centre of Bled. It is equipped with snowmaking and night skiing facilities, a double chair lift and a rope tow. The latter is suitable for beginners and is used by the local ski school. Two ski slopes, in total about 1.2km (three quarters of a mile) in length are available for both beginners and experienced skiers. However anyone above beginner standard is unlikely to find more than a day's entertainment here. The next centre on the road out of town is Zatrnik, 10km (6 miles) away on the Pokljuka plateau. It is blessed with a chair and four T Bars serving 16km (10 miles) of runs for all standards, the longest 2.5km (just over a mile and a half). The vertical is 344m, three times that of Straza, and the top of the lifts at 1200m is twice as high. Zatrnik is another good place to learn to ski or progress with gentle open nursery slopes and some easy to use lifts. The chair serves long easy and intermediate runs from the area's highest point at Berjanca, and there are a couple of short sharp blacks from the top of the Hotunjski Vrh lift, one of which has staged world cup slalom races in the past. There is extensive cross country skiing in the area from a separate base at Pokljuka, a further 10km (6 miles) along the road, where the 35km (21 miles) of trails are supplemented by a single 200m drag for alpine skiers. The best known cross country trail is on Rudno Polje - a Biathlon World Cup event is held here every year. You can also go cross-country skiing on Zajavornik, Goreljek and in the Kranjska valley. The two 'serious skiing' centres are Kobla and Vogel - in Bohinj, only 20 and 30 km from Bled. There is good snow here almost every winter, because the 36 trails on Vogel run from 1300 to 1800 m above sea level, and Kobla has snowmaking facilities. Both areas have a healthy 35km (22 miles) of trails, each with three chair lifts. Kobla has three additional drags, Vogel five drags and a cable car. Vogel's cable car rises above the forest from lakeside Bohinjsko Jezero up to a ski area base plateau that includes nursery slopes and chairs serving higher, steeper runs. Although official figures give a vertical of only 500m or so, an intermediate run back down to the base of the cable car is open if snow conditions permit, giving a world class drop of 1200m, the upper section of which may be completed on the area's single black, or an intermediate run giving the longest run of 6km (4 miles). From the top of Vogel you can have excellent views of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenija and indeed in the whole former Yugoslav Republic area. A similar vertical of nearly 1000 metres is possible for Kobla, again if snow conditions are adequate. Here there are easy runs at all levels with nursery slopes at the base. The three chair lifts take you in succession to 700 and then 1000 metres. The one short black is served by the middle chair.
Country:
Slovenia
Resort height:
503m
Top lift:
1800m
Bottom lift:
503m
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