# Ski instructors in Schladming

> Four linked mountains from the Planai World Cup slope to Hauser Kaibling, skiing's biggest night race, the Dachstein glacier and Ramsau's nordic trails nearby.

- Region: Styria
- Country: [Austria](https://alpinepal.com/en/ski-instructors/austria)
- Time zone: Europe/Vienna
- Currency: EUR
- Coordinates: 47.39417, 13.68917
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q254221

Page: https://alpinepal.com/en/resorts/schladming
Last reviewed: 13 September 2026

## About Schladming

Schladming is a small, old market town in the Enns valley in Styria, and its ski area is the 4-Berge-Skischaukel: four mountains — Hauser Kaibling, Planai, Hochwurzen and Reiteralm — linked by lifts and pistes across the valleys between them into around 120 km of piste between 745 and just over 2,000 m. The Planai, directly above the town, is the famous one: it hosted the World Championships in 2013, and every January its floodlit slope stages the Night Race, a World Cup slalom in front of a crowd that can reach 50,000.

The terrain is wooded, moderately steep and consistently well groomed, with long tree-lined reds that hold up in bad visibility and a valley-run home from each mountain. The links between the four are real but involve some traversing and a couple of bus connections at the ends, and the resort is part of Ski amadé, which puts the rest of the Salzburg areas on the same pass.

What sets Schladming apart is what is around it. Across the valley, Ramsau am Dachstein is a high plateau that is one of the best cross-country skiing centres in the Alps, host of the 1999 Nordic World Championships, and above it the Dachstein glacier offers a small high-altitude ski area, cross-country trails at 2,700 m and a walk-out viewing platform.

## Where lessons start

The classic beginner area is Rohrmoos, on the lower slopes of the Hochwurzen, a broad, gentle, sunny shelf above the town that has been teaching people to ski for generations and is far better for a first week than the Planai itself. There is also a nursery area at the Planai valley station. Schladming suits families and intermediates who want reliable grooming and a real town in the evenings; anyone interested in cross-country should look at Ramsau, ten minutes up the hill.

## Getting there

Schladming has a railway station on the line between Salzburg and Graz, with trains from Salzburg in around two hours and from Graz in about the same; the Planai gondola is a short walk from it. By road, Salzburg airport is about an hour and a quarter via the Tauern motorway, Munich two and a half hours, Vienna three and a half. It is one of the more accessible resorts in Austria, and on Night Race weekend that is exactly the problem.

## Resort areas

- Planai
- Hochwurzen
- Hauser Kaibling

## Instructors at Schladming

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## Qualifications required in Austria

Teaching for payment in Austria requires the Skilehrer qualification, issued by Landesskilehrerverband.

## Frequently asked questions

### Can I ski all four mountains in a day?

A fit intermediate can, but it is a long day with some flat traverses and a bus at each end rather than a seamless loop like the Skicircus or the SkiWelt. Most people do two mountains a day and are happier for it. Hauser Kaibling and Planai are the closest pair to the town and the easiest to combine.