Stuben am Arlberg Beginners
Stuben has great skiing for advanced skiers, but is not an obvious choice for beginners. There is a good ski school however, and young children and novices can learn to ski on quiet nursery slopes before using the full Arlberg pass and modern lifts at Alpe Rauz to reach longer blue runs.Beginner Skiing in Stuben am Arlberg
Stuben’s nursery slopes are separate from the other runs and are serviced by two easy lifts. A special ticket is available for beginners using the nursery slopes, which is significantly cheaper than buying a full ski pass.
After two or three days on the nursery slopes, most novices will be competent and confident enough to ski the blue run from the top of the Albona 1 chair at 1,840m down to Stuben at 1,407m, but will need a full Arlberg lift pass in order to do so (and that’s an expensive outlay for a beginner who won’t make as much use of it as a more experienced skier).
Improving beginners will soon want to turn right when half way down this run and follow another blue piste (103) out of the Stuben ski area and into St Anton’s. They will soon reach Alpe Rauz where modern new lifts (quite a contrast to the Abona I chair) span out in three directions. Probably the most appealing initial option is to ride the Valfagehr chair up then descend back to Alpe Rauz on the wide and very long blue 100 piste. Alternatively, from the top there is another long all blue route (78, 56, 55 then 50) which goes in the opposite direction and twists and turns all the way into St Anton. Allow plenty of time and go slowly at the start because it’s easy to stray onto red or even black pistes by accident; at the bottom be prepared for either slush or ice. The return ‘all blue’ route from St Anton to Stuben via the Galzig, Osthang and Arlenmahder lifts can also be tricky to navigate at the start.
Another option from Alpe Rauz is to take Flexenbahn lift then descend into Zurs on the Trittkopfbahn I bubble, thus avoiding the narrow and often crowded and icy red run. Once you’re in Zurs there is no shortage of beginner-friendly blue runs on both sides of the valley. If you get tired of these, take the free bus from Zurs to Lech and there are even more. Oberlech which is in the middle of this patchwork of blue runs makes a very tempting lunch spot, but if you want to keep going you can get all the way to Warth and back on blue runs. This is a very long expedition though for a novice.
Lastly, remember the family-friendly ski area at Sonnenkopf is just 5km from Stuben and offers a choice of mostly easy blue and red runs served by T-bars and accessed from the gondola station in the valley at Klosterle. It’s not connected by lift but it’s easy to reach by car and taxi, and there are regular scheduled bus services too.
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