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Bad news for the German ski bunnies and bunnies: The chances of getting a complicated broken bone or a strange illness at après-ski in the next few weeks are getting smaller and smaller.
After Italy and France had already campaigned for a postponement of the ski season due to the corona pandemic and even in Austria, which has so far been unswerving, hopes for normal operation this year have now come to zero, there is now devastating bad news from Germany.
East Frisia was the last hope of ski vacationers
The only region in Central Europe that has not yet issued a ban on all downhill skiing and slalom activities until the turn of the year has apparently collapsed under pressure from anti-business corona hysterics: There were inquiries in Emden and Aurich, but also in the flat country that there are no plans to open the ski lifts and slopes to tourists in the whole of East Frisia this year.
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In the far north, this has followed the example of North Rhine-Westphalia, which will close its ski lifts nationwide by at least December 20th.
While Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder indirectly brought a ski lockdown into January, the situation in East Friesland is much more radical.
No après-ski hype
Between Spiekeroog and Leer, for example, all mountains are closed to tourist activities for the whole winter and there are no hearty parties à la Ischgl.
And that, although the region, like northern Germany, could look back on comparatively low numbers of corona cases during the first wave.
Is it the typical stubbornness of the people on the coast?
Or the famous East Frisian joke?
The only thing that is certain is that fans of rapid descents and daring slalom maneuvers have been deprived of their last hope of being able to enjoy the thrill of speed and the invigorating power of the alpine mountain sun, at least in northern Germany.
For fear of corona: Never again open ski lifts in Krummhörn?
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Locals like Menno Hansen are not optimistic that something will change quickly.
When asked whether he could imagine opening the East Frisian ski lifts this decade, the farmer from Krummhörn, who is regarded by his compatriots as uncomfortably chatty, replies: "Nope."
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