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FREERIDE SKIING IN THE TYROL

The Stubai Glacier offers various opportunities for descents away from the groomed pistes. The “Powder Department” provides information on selected freeride routes and the terrain in the ski area. Its high-altitude location allows for freeride experiences across different types of terrain, depending on weather and snow conditions.

Ein Freerider fährt einen Rechtsschwung durch den kniehohen Tiefschnee

AT A GLANCE...

  • Freeride Checkpoints at the Eisgrat and the Gamsgarten: info panels with route descriptionstransceiver check and information on avalanche situation

  • Exercise terrain for searching buried persons at the Gamsgarten: Search persons buried by avalanches with avalanche transceivers and probes. Use is free of charge. Introductory courses on request
  • Freeride runs in the open ski area that are listed on an off-piste map and are available as GPS-tracks
  • Videos show even more information about the Powder Department
  • Rental of safety equipment at the Intersport Shops on the Stubai Glacier

Powder Department Stubai Glacier

Zwei Freerider führen einen safety check mit einem LVS Gerät vor dem Verlassen der Piste durch
RISK MANAGEMENT
Safety first - Off-piste risk management
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Freerider zieht in einem breiten Gelände die erste Line am Stubaier Gletscher
GPS Tracks
Download GPS tracks on your phone and off you go
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Zwei Freerider stehen vor der Powder Department Tafel und planen ihre Runs
OFF PISTE MAP
Stubai Glacier map with freeride routes
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OFF-PISTE FREERIDE RUNS - IN THE POWDER DEPARTMENT

The Stubai Glacier provides access to high-alpine terrain with plenty of space for fantastic freeride runs. However, this terrain also requires appropriate experience and training in alpine environments, as well as responsible behaviour adapted to the conditions. A specially created off-piste map shows freeride routes in ungroomed terrain. The routes are also available as GPS tracks in the Outdooractive app. This gives freeriders the opportunity to discover rewarding descents.

You can download the POWDER DEPARTMENT OFF PISTE MAP here.

Zwei Freerider führen einen safety check mit einem LVS Gerät vor dem Verlassen der Piste durch

GPS TRACKS: HOW IT WORKS

  • Download Outdoor Active App in the App Store or in the Google Play Store
  • Load the Powder Department Track on your smartphone
  • Use the your-position-button (bottom left) to locate your position
  • This way you can check at all times whether you are still on the route.
  • The availability of a track doesn’t mean that you can ride/access it at this time!
  • Slight deviations from the route can already increase the risk.
THE MOST IMPORTANT RULES

Fresh snow or rain always increases the risk of avalanches.
The first nice day after snowfall is particularly prone to accidents!
It is often easy to trigger fresh snowdrift accumulations.
Rapid, marked warming and/or strong sunlight increase the risk of avalanches.
Low visibility (fog) makes orientation and the assessment of the avalanche risk more difficult.

Zwei Freerider stehen vor der Powder Department Tafel und planen ihre Runs

NOTE

BEFORE GOING FREERIDING, THE FOLLOWING THINGS MUST BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION:

  • Information about avalanche risk (see avalanche bulletin on lawinen.report)
  • Check risk factors and if possible eliminate them
  • Check emergency equipment (avalanche transceiver, shovel, probe, mobile phone...)
  • Basic knowledge of alpine dangers and what to do in an emergency

If you are not sufficiently informed on alpine dangers and avalanches, please book a training session with a pro (e.g. certified mountain or ski guide) before going into the open area on your own. More information.

GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE STUBAI GLACIER

Freeride ski schools and mountain guides

The Freeride Center
Schischule Neustift - Stubaier Gletscher
Stubaitalstraße 91
6167 Neustift
Österreich
Alpin Schischule Neustift
STUBAI ALPIN - Die Neustifter Schilehrer und Bergführer
Dorf 5
6167 Neustift
Österreich
ATTENTION

You leave the secured ski area when riding on the Powder Department Runs! The runs are NOT prepared, NOT secured from avalanches (and other alpine dangers) and are NOT checked. The Powder Department Runs are – since they are open ski area - not declared open or closed.

You act exclusively at your own responsibility and are outside of the area of liability of the lift operators, which offer only the open, prepared pistes and ski routes and assume no liability whatsoever.

Freeride Runs should only be entered with a certified mountain and ski guide.