Think spring skiing in Italy is impossible? Not quite. Up in Arabba, winter doesn’t really care what the calendar says. While most resorts are winding down, this tiny alpine village hidden in the Dolomites is still very much white until late April. Arabba feels like a loophole for those not ready to say goodbye to snow. It’s small, it’s high (about 1,600 meters), and somehow it keeps delivering proper ski days well into spring.
In the common narrative of spring skiing, there is always a general sense of melancholy, the kind that marks any sort of ending, from summer to Christmas holidays. Yet, in the Dolomites, there is an exception that defies this story. Nestled between the Sella Group and Marmolada, Arabba maintains conditions that elsewhere vanish by late winter.
