Just back from a week in the countryside. We wanted to ski with the kids, but due to the bad weather, we finally went to the nearby ski resort only twice, and I decided to leave the camera at home because it would have been meaningless at these conditions. This image was taken in December (without being able to look through the finder). The snow levels already were qute impressive then. However, meanwhile it has snowed a lot more and Upper Austria is currently "drowning in snow" as the newspapers put it. See a few more images from the Kasberg ski resort at http://www.pbase.com/ekke/winterooe&page=2