Skiing in Gulmarg | Gulmarg Kashmir | Hill Station in Gulmarg

Skiing season usually commences here just before Christmas and continues till early April. In year 1998 Gulmarg hosted first National Winter Games of India, for which the facilities were enormously upgraded and improved.

Gulmarg is well suited for learing skiing. It has some of the best slopes for beginners and intermediate skiers, all serviced by ski lifts and chair lifts.Most of the skiing activities are centered around these slopes,which have ski runs ranging from 200 to 900 mtrs. Good quality equipments including skies, sticks, gloves, and goggles are available on hire from the government run ski shop. Trained instructors are at hand for guiding amateur skiers.

Among the numerous slopes,some are not serviced by ski lifts.  These are quieter than those immensely populor with average skiers. Trained skiers take to those slopes and even trek in the snow for several hours to the top of the Apharwat range, to make a descent lasting not less than 30 minutes. Now with the setting of the Gandola cable car, Gulmarg has become the highest lift served ski resort in the world providing a downhillski run of 5.2 km from a height of 14000 feet in Apharwat range. It is also Asia’s longest Gandola served ski lift. Gulmarg also offers a host of other snow sports at this time of year.The most populor snow sport in tourists is riding on snow sledge and being pulled on snow covered roads or gentler slopes.Tobogganing alos does not require any skills, A woodden snow board is taken up the hills and then allowed to slide down hill. Snow boarding is also introduced in Gulmarg.

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