Stubai Beginner Skiing
The Stubai Valley is a great place for beginners to learn to ski or snowboard. Stubaital really bends over backwards in its efforts to please families and beginners alike with superb child-friendly skiing presented through their BIG Family programme.
Beginner Skiing in Stubaital
The BIG Family Stubai offering is a concept built around mascots B.BIG at Stubai Glacier, BIG Ron at Schllick 2000 as well as Mini B. It is specifically given material form through the BIG Family ski camp at Gamsgarten on the Stubai Glacier and BIG Ron’s Kinderland at Schlick 2000. Both these facilities are up the mountain (ie. a ride by gondola or cable to arrive from the base station) and that is a plus in not only creating a proper mountain feel for kids but also in gaining better snow through the season. Both these facilities are outstanding.
At the Stubai glacier, children have wonderful choice of four magic carpets, wave runs, and arches. There is also BIG Family boardercross and once a week pistenbully rides. Recently added is the popular BIG Family Funslope, a 1km long piste with small obstacles, steep curves and jumps. Children can eat in the BIG Family children’s restaurant designed for kids. And kids can play during or after skiing in the play area, which has a climbing tower.
Over at Schlick 2000, BIG Ron welcomes kids and, just a few yards away from Kinderland itself, is the BIG Family crèche where babies from the age of 4 months can be looked after. Children from three years old, who do not ski, can also be looked after in the kindergartens in Schlick 2000 and on the Stubai Glacier.
Both on the Glacier and at Schlick 2000, as beginners and children progress, there are good blue runs accessible by excellent lifts, taking them above the BIG Family camps. And these are great Tyrolean high mountain surroundings to start to develop your skiing experience in. The Glacier has a good selection of well served blue runs right across its range from the tops of Schaufelnieder on the left (as you look at the piste map) to Schaufelspitze itself in the centre of the range and Wildspitz taking you off to the right down Piste 7 back to the camp at Gamsgarten. Beginners on the Glacier will want to take the lifts down at the end of the day, either from Gamsgarten itself or from Mittelstation Fernau, as the only marked descent to the base station is the technically challenging ski route Wilde Grub’n from Gamsgarten.
At Schlick 2000 beginners can similarly enjoy some very scenic blue descents from Kreuzjoch at 2136m and from the top of Sennjoch at 2240m all the way down to the valley station at 1000m, below a beautiful row of five peaks to the front and on your left as you ski down, the highest of which is the Schlicker Seespitze at 2804m. What a great experience for someone learning to ski and this in some seriously beautiful Tyrolean scenery, that even has a resonance of the Dolomites to its look and feel.
Families and beginners can have a great day out as well on a limited number of straightforward runs at either Elfer in Neustift itself or Serles in Mieders, lower down the valley.
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