Skiing in Borovets
The official skiing season lasts from mid-December to mid-April, though the snow-cover is most reliable in late February and early March. Immediately in front of the HotelRila, the nursery slopes are served by ten drag lifts (daily in winter; 9.30am-4.50pm), and overlooked by a steep slope topped by the Sitnyakovo chalet, once one of Ferdinand's villas, that's accessible by chair lift (same hours; winter only) from behind the Hotel Rila. Experienced skiers favour the pistes on the western ridge of the mountain, which can be reached by a five-kilometre-long gondola (daily in winter, summer opening times depend on how full the resort is; 9am-5.30pm) running from near the Hotel Samokov up to Yastrebets, a former royal hunting lodge (now a hotel). Another chair lift serves the two ski jumps (55m & 75m long), while there are also shuttle-buses to the start of three cross-country runs at Shiroka Polyana, 2km away.
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