{"id":2842,"date":"2021-07-23T18:46:01","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T16:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/?p=2842"},"modified":"2021-07-23T20:30:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T18:30:35","slug":"history-of-arosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/graubunden\/history-of-arosa\/","title":{"rendered":"Arosa Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/arosa2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>The author in Chur, about to take the narrow gauge mountain railway to Arosa.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was working on a project about the history of Arosa and it reminded me it is about time I planned another ski trip there &#8211; I think my last must have been about four years ago as my recent focus has mainly been on Vaud and Valais. The Arosa-Lenzerheide ski area is the largest  in Graub\u00fcnden, some 225km of piste and 43 ski lifts. Arosa is a bit of a sprawl, but there is more to the resort than skiing, so around a half of the winter visitors don&#8217;t ski at all.  In recent decades it has fallen out of favour, but in 2013 a new cable car linking Arosa to Lenzerheide trebled the ski area size and re-established Arosa as a go-to resort for keen skiers &#8211; although, on the whole, the slopes are better suited to intermediates than experts. I like the resort, though, and the train journey from Chur is one of the great train journeys in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, and I&#8217;ve skied main street:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Skiing in Arosa Town Centre\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b4BlOhsZj5g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was working on a project about the history of Arosa and it reminded me it is about time I planned another ski trip there &#8211; I think my last must have been about four years ago as my recent focus has mainly been on Vaud and Valais. The Arosa-Lenzerheide ski area is the largest &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/graubunden\/history-of-arosa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arosa Revisited&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[39,114,154,8,126,99,13,100,69,37,33,113,401,168],"class_list":["post-2842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graubunden","tag-alps","tag-arosa","tag-arosa-lenzerheide","tag-davos","tag-graubunden-2","tag-high","tag-lenzerheide","tag-mountain","tag-rail","tag-ski","tag-skiing","tag-swiss","tag-valais","tag-zurich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2842"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2850,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions\/2850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}