Schruns is a municipality in the Montafon valley (altitude 690 meters), in the Bludenz district of the westernmost Austrian state of Vorarlberg.
Since 2012/13, Schruns has been part of the FIS Snowboard World Cup, which takes place annually in December.
During the daytime, visitors can watch snowboard cross races up on the Hochjoch of the Silvretta Montafon ski area.
He wintered there with his first wife, Hadley, and oldest son, who was then just an infant; a chapter in his book A Moveable Feast includes several pages describing lodging and skiing there in the 1920s.
[4] In Hemingway's classic story "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" the third scene in the first flashback sequence recounts memories of Schruns.