Even thought this winter was warm and with little snowfall on Plesivec the trials with artificial snowing were open (at the beginning of march) and one could enjoy the snow and sun together. The conditions there are perfect for the families with small and bigger kids (small hill for kids to learn and indoor play room to get rest).
Stóg Izerski is the peak situated in the Polish part of the Jizera Mountains (near Świeradów Zdrój). Below the top is the upper station of Gondola that takes tourists, skier snowboarders, bikers in the summer and other lovers of mountains up the hill. We visited it in the winter season. This year there was there a lot of show, up to 2 m on the top! Gondola is kids and skiing beginners friendly. Also the read down the hill is not sharp. Till around 14 o'clock (in winter) the hill is on the sunny part of the mountain later the Sun hides behind the mountain. At the bottom station and in the neighborhood there are more small lifts for small kids (3 years old) or total beginners. Nice place to ski with kids but I was enjoining most the vies on the mountains pick going out of the clouds.
Mikulov (German: Niklasberg) is a village in Teplice District surrounded by hills. Although not very high (869 m a.s.l.) are quite steep and offer also routes sharply going down. Near the bottom stations are places for beginner to learn. Additinaly there are many routs for Ski touring. Refer to the details on the area web page.
Skiing areal Bublava - Stříbrná are actually two separated places: smaller one in Stribrna with one anchor lift and the bigger areal in Bublava. The first one as smaller is nearly empty - no waiting to the lift. There are three roads: blue, red and black, but already the red is quite difficult red and suitable only for better skiers. There is also snow part for the beginners. The areal in Bublava offers seating and anchor lifts and more roads. Is suitable for real beginners and for good riders: so for whole family. For the easies parts there are sometimes queues up to 10-15 minutes. The infrastructure around is better: ski service and rent, bar etc. To sum up: Bublava is worth of spending there few winter days and get really tired with different skinning options without much crowed.
Bublava
Bublava
Stříbrná
Swieradow Zdroj SKI & SUN is an attractive place for beginners and moderately advanced skiers. It has only one (but long) blue road. At the beginning it is a bit tougher and later easy, even flat in some parts. Suitable for kids how learn to ski. Big advantage is that there are no queues to the gondola which is able to lift up to 2,400 people per hour. We were skiing in the main season during the sunny weekend and still we never waited longer then 3 minutes. For the smallest one there is also a small snow park and lift to make first steps on the snow. Fully recommendable for families.
On Plešivec we enjoyed a perfect conditions for skiing with children. There is prepared a band also for the smallest (e.g. 3 years old) and playground above the restaurant to take a rest. It is worth recommending to take a rest in the restaurant on the pick of Plešivec and admire the view from the tower.
