Montafon Beginner Skiing

Montafon has plenty of runs for beginners. Nearly 50% of the groomed pistes are blue and competent beginners can enjoy long top-to-bottom descents on Hochjoch and Gargellen. The longest of these is a 12km long easy run from the top of the Hochjoch ski area in Schruns.

Hochjoch has good beginner skiing on Kapellalpe, easiest access to which is at the top of the Hohjoch cable car, which is where you’ll find Schruns Ski School, Dreamland children’s kindergarten, Alpin Sports Centre and Kapell Restaurant.

Kapell (1850m) is a convenient meeting point with easy access to a couple of nursery slopes with drag lifts for novices and longer blue runs 9 and 10. Confident beginners can ski blue 9 from Kapell then ride the 8-person Sesselbahn chairlift and ski the similarly long blue 10 past Spetcher-See all the way back to Kapell or break right down the fall-line on easy blue runs that will return you to the bottom of the Sesselbahn.

There’s plenty more blue-run skiing higher up. Confident beginners can take the 2-person chairlift from Kapell to Sennigrat (2300m) then ride another double-chair to the Wormser Hűtte (2305m) on Kreuzjoch. From there you can ski the short blue 2 or better still enjoy much longer blue runs 15 – 19 from Kreuzjoch towards Grasjochhűtte (1975m) and Hochjoch (2520m).

Ride the Platina ski lift back to Kreuzjoch then ski blue 1a which will take you through the amazing 476m long Hochjoch ski tunnel back to Kapell and can continue via blue 1b and 1c all the way back down to Schruns; it’s 12km from start to finish.

Silvretta Nova offers a good selection of long blue runs allowing competent beginners to ski more or less the whole area. There’s a nursery slope down in the valley at Gaschurn and a lovely long and easy blue trail 11/12 running from Garfrescha (1500m) down to the bottom of the Garfeschabahn chairlift or longer still to the Valisera lift in St Gallenkirch.

Gargellen also offers good beginner skiing. There is a short nursery slope with drag lift in the village and another one close to the top of the Gargellenbahn gondola. Better still are the super long blue run 2 and similarly long blue run 6 from Schafberghűsli all the way down to Gargellen; the longest run is 8km from start to finish and easily skied by competent beginners.

Golm ski area is mostly a mixture of red and blue pistes, fine for confident beginners who have mastered the basics, but not as enjoyable a place to learn as Hochjoch on the other side of the valley.