Although 20% of it will have melted over the summer months, enough will be left by the start of the new season to lay down a 1.5km cross-country piste.
There will, ultimately, be a piste running down the same slope once the exact route and funding can be agreed; but, for now, you can ski only 2km down from Schatzberg to the gondola's mid-station, and must ride the rest of the way down.
My room had a balcony that allowed me to look straight on to a piste and you could ski straight out of the front door down to the nearest lift.
As a teenager in Vorarlberg, Austria, Geiger taught himself to yodel down empty pistes and imagined a career as a professional skier.
Like nearly everyone else, he'd never parried or riposted on a piste, either.
There I discovered, on an early-season ski trip, that Mozart is a piste.
Further down the slopes you're less likely to be accosted by oversize squirrels than by taxi drivers, who gather wherever a piste comes close to a road to shout for custom.
Ski down the high street Once upon a time, when mobiles were no longer brick size but still rare, there was a telephone at the top of a piste in Colorado's Winter Park resort, with a direct line to the pizzeria down at the bottom.
That was on a piste, which isn't the safest.
