Stubai Advanced & Expert Skiing
The Stubai Glacier has seven marked ski routes for experts including the 10km Wilde Grub’n all the way down to the valley station at 1750m and loads of opportunity for freeriding. On piste, the opportunities for experts are more limited; just a few black runs on the glacier and a couple or more so over at Schlick.
Glaciers being glaciers – fairly flat as snow features go – there are just a few black runs, and pretty light black ones too. Piste 7 is a short steep pitch off Widspitz; to its skier’s left is an ungroomed bump run. A longer run weaves off the four-man Rotadl chair.
Looking at the piste map for Stubai Glacier to the right will indicate the Daunjoch chair ascending to below the Daunkopf at 3225m which gives you Piste 22 a relatively narrow and steep descent back to Gamsgarten, which can usefully be connected to Ski Route 14 – Wilde Grub’n (see below here). Perhaps more interestingly, there are four marked ‘proline’ ski routes to explore, none of them groomed or patrolled according to signs.
The ski route Wilde Grub’n is a twisting and varied off-piste route that winds through a dramatic open bowl and finishes down at the base station, covering a vertical drop of over 1 kilometre with snowmaking the entire way. If you connect this to for an easy start from blue 7 from Wildspitz at 3000m you have a great and varied descent over 10km to the valley station. More challengingly, strong skiers can head down under the Gamsgarten gondola to get first tracks in the morning avoiding Wilde Grub’n crowds at the day’s end – like the ski instructors do.
Over at Schlick 2000 a couple of shorter blacks in the middle of the range accessible from the Zirmach chair probably don’t make Schlick an advanced skiers’ place per se but coupled with the much longer Ski Route 1 from the Kreuzjoch , they do spice up a good fun day’s skiing in this most beautiful area.
For Freeride opportunities in the Stubai Valley see Stubai Off-piste.