Still nice to know I can board this run without using T Bars.
But, if nothing has changed since last year, the lift on those runs (5,5a) is the Gaisskarferner T-bar! And, if my memory is correct, from the top of the Eisjochbahn you have to ski/board down to the Windachferner T-bar and go up that to get over to it (you may be able to walk over with a short uphill). I'm not sure whether there is a direct way from the top of the Schaufeljoch gondola, I rather suspect not (especially on piste). The 3D RealityMaps view of Stubai doesn't seem to show any way down.
The map is a bit confusing. Don't be confused by the piste 5c - that is downhill from the Schaunieder ridge to the bottom of the Gaisskarferner lift. You have to come back up the Pfaffengrat lift - and that wasn't running when I was there last October.
If you're looking for runs without T-bars, maybe piste 10 (reached over 4) would be a better bet. Or piste 7 from the Rotadlkopf (though I can't really remember what that is like).
P.S. Piste 1 down from the Eisjochbahn should be good too. There are several clips in YouTube whic show the area, e.g. this one.
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espri, Thanks. 3D map is great.
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ooh I can get from Munich to Innsbruck in about 2 hours, tempting, tempting
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lynseyf, Warming up now, but the pistes should be in great shape still. There's the Moreboards' freestyle comp this weekend, so could be busy, but hopefully entertaining.
clarky999, Hungarian and Polish weeks/weekends at Hintertux so that is likely to be busy. The park action at Stubai is over the back, so it does not usually spill over much in terms of park rats all over the pistes. I was up there this weekend last year and had a great time. It could have been better as it was my first time in ski boots after breaking my ankle in 2 places in the summer and the ankle was not too happy but the people I was with had a great time.
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Samerberg Sue, Cool - should be fun anyway. Lots of Polish (and Swedish) racers at the Stubai yesterday, was pretty hilarious tbh - lots of wipeouts as they struggled to deal with the soft conditions and cut up pistes! Still some VERY impressive skiing though!
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clarky999, I think it is some kind of holiday week in Poland this week, maybe like a school half term. Loads on the A8 heading your way as well as on to the Kitzsteinhorn tonight as I drove home from work! This weekend the school half terms begin in several German states, so we should see increased traffic flow in the direction of the Brenner and other points south. Bavaria has theirs in the last week of October (starts Monday 29th for a week), so getting to Sölden will be fun if I'm too late setting off! Bavaria seems to pour down to Gardasee in the Spring and Autumn school holidays for some reason, so look out if you are planning to use the Brenner Autobahn to get to the Schonberg exit.
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About 15cms of snow in my garden at around 800m (still going too), was snowing down in the city last night too. Apparently 55cms at the Stubaier. Can't go skiing as I have a job interview Hopefully it'll keep snowing 'til tomorrow!
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clarky999, forecast is for Föhn from Weds/Thursday onwards, so get out and enjoy it while you can.
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Samerberg Sue, Hmm, maybe I'll go for a hike later then just in case...
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clarky999, Good luck with the interview, make sure you get 28th Dec off as holiday!
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TomW,
I don't have the experience of Clary do! But I know a bit of Stubai (and love it!) and could gave you some information about the mountain.
Keep in mind that you'll parking at end of the road, on the very bottom of the glacier (Murtterberger). The ski is mostly at the up half of the mountain.
Taht said, you'll need to chose to go to right(Gamsgarten) or to left(Eisgrat). So take the gondola all the way up to the middle of the mountain.
From the first stop since at the left side, just continue to go up to the top.
The left side is amazing (pistes 5 and 10). If you stop at the bottom of 10 you can get a chair to top of 10, or continue to run down and get back to the Eisgrat gondola and up to the top again.
BTW, consider the central of the mountain either. The pistes are very wide and there are a mix of levels.
Don't waste all of your energy until the end of the day!! Reserve a secure time (about 40min) from the finish of the day, plan to be at the Top and down strait to Gamsgaten and joint to Wilde Gru'n and run down to the base (Murtterberger). Top of the # 7(right side) either get a connection with WideG. You'll experience a very exciting 10 to 14 Km(several levels of difficult) run and end up on the parking lot!! Fantastic.
IMPORTANT - know before you go if the Wilde is open and about the snow conditions there.
Wish you have great ski there!!!
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edu_rio, Welcome to and thanks for info!
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We are thinking of staying in Innsbruck for a few days around the middle of March with a view to hitting local slopes around the local slopes to the city.
Where would you recommend we must ski? I am already considering a day in Stubai.
We actually have 3 and half days to ski, 4 blokes who are piste bashers mainly although e will look to hit Wilde Gru'n that edu_rio, mentions.
Thanks in advance.
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clarky999, Good luck with the interview, make sure you get 28th Dec off as holiday!
Cheers - got the job! Will definitely make sure I have the 28th off lol.
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northantsred wrote:
We are thinking of staying in Innsbruck for a few days around the middle of March with a view to hitting local slopes around the local slopes to the city.
Where would you recommend we must ski? I am already considering a day in Stubai.
We actually have 3 and half days to ski, 4 blokes who are piste bashers mainly although e will look to hit Wilde Gru'n that edu_rio, mentions.
Thanks in advance.
Depends a bit on what sort of skiing you like, how happy you are to travel a bit to the slopes (bus or car), and what conditions are like.
I love Nordkette, you can get lifts to it directly form the city centre, it only has two pistes, but you can access a lot of offpiste, and there are a couple of very steep but avalanche controlled couloirs accessed directly from the lifts.
Axamer Lizum should be on your list, one of the bigger areas, but the bus is around 40 mins (I think, could be more or less, it's been awhile and I've only gone with the car before.
Schlick2000 should also be on there, maybe 30mins with the bus?
Patscherkoffel is nearer, I think about 15mins on the bus depending where in Innsbruck you're starting from. Small hill, some nice piste skiing.
Stubai.
Kuhtai is probably also a good bet, this season is the first time it's on my pass, looking forward to trying it.
I think the holiday pass also includes a day at Kitz/St Anton and/or Ischgl, but I'm not 100% on that. Roughly an hour on public transport to them.
Lots of options really...
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Great day at the Stubai again. Lots of snow - can still get fresh tracks in places too. Skied a nice little couloir line under the new Rotadl lift, accessed straight from the piste. Snow was about 20cms, pretty dense with a heavy crust on top - not complaining though. Could still do with a bit more snow cover for most of the offpiste. Pistes in great condition, not too firm and getting a wee bit bumpy/cut up later in the day (just the way I like it).
Pictures are crap quality as they're from my phone.
Nordkette isn't so wintery any more (other than high up). The snowy peaks tempted me into trying to skin up yesterday, but whilst there was lots of snow on the bushes, there was none on the paths/tracks/pistes. Hiked up about 2k in ski boots, gave up and went down for a beer instead.
clarky999, thank you for that info it is most useful as I don't know the area at all although one of my pals was in Innsbruck some time past.
Congrats on the job win!
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northantsred, No worries. Turns out you they don't do the 'Super Ski' pass anymore, so no St Anton/Kitz/Ischgl (at least as far as I can see, would be interested if anyone knows otherwise as I have some friends coming out for New Year).
A lot of (new) snow on the Nordkette peaks today, when they poked out through the clouds. Had to work today, hopefully will still be able to find some fresh at Stubai tommorrow.
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northantsred,
I have done Stubai and Shlick,the latter being a superb little, very scenic ski area at the back of Neustift.
Stubai is great but a bit of a drive up to the very busy car park.
Do not miss the cheesy Austropop apres in the Mutterberg !!!
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Sorry I meant Fulpmes not Neustift for Shlick !
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Saw lots of snow and ice in Innsbruck last Friday - but on the stage
There was an excellent production in the Landestheater of Alfredo Catalani's opera, La Wally (perhaps best known through the "hit" aria 'Ebben? ... Ne andrò lontana' which appeared in the film "Diva"). The opera, based on a story by Wilhelmine von Hillern "Die Geyer-Wally" about a woman living in the mountains, ends with the heroine dieing in an avalanche (maybe on the Rettenbachferner?, for the opera is set around Sölden in the Ötztal, although the original woman on which the character of Wally was based, Anna Stainer-Knittel, actually lived further west in the Lechtal). Photos here.
I enjoyed the evening and found there was plenty of action on the stage. If any other opera-loving skiers are in the area, I would recommend seeing the production. There are further performances on 15.11 and 21.11 and next year on 27.01 and 3.02.
Are there any other operas set in a skiing environment?
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espri wrote:
Are there any other operas set in a skiing environment?
Apparently Winfrey has a chalet in Telluride...
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Bucketing down here, looks like it' dumping at the Stubaier. Should probably get out of bed and go check it out really...
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Friend told me it was raining even pretty high up, so gave it a miss.
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clarky999, it is a full blown Föhn storm that's why! The closer I got to the mountains today, the warmer and wetter it was!
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espri wrote:
Are there any other operas set in a skiing environment?
I don't know about Operas, but there is a good theatre play called On The Piste by John Godber which I saw in the 1990s at Derby Playhouse.
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Alastair Pink, I saw that too in Harrogate at the same time, really good
clarky999, it is a full blown Föhn storm that's why! The closer I got to the mountains today, the warmer and wetter it was!
Strange. I skied today in Kitzbühel (will report later when I have time). Having heard forecasts of rain and 130 km/hr gusts I started out with trepidation. But there was virtually no rain and hardly any wind, although changeable weather (mist one minute, sun the next). And only minimal Föhn effects.
clarky999, it is a full blown Föhn storm that's why! The closer I got to the mountains today, the warmer and wetter it was!
Yeah, was hoping there'd be snow above 2000m, but Jerome said it was raining up to at least Gamsgarten!
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clarky999, Looking at the Ischgl webcams you can see it was snowing there this morning certainly above 2200m and lower before clearing up and briefly sunshine breaking through around 1400. Further east sounds like it missed Kitzbuhel, but was raining heavily to the south in Bad Gastein. Until latest dray it looked like the eastern Alps would be cooler, but this shifted suddenly. Shows how unpredictable theorems can be even across relatively small distances.
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nozawaonsen wrote:
was raining heavily to the south in Bad Gastein.
It does look like Gastein drew the short straw today - the rain was pretty bad. Looking at the webcams only slightly further north around Hochkonig, the weather looked nowhere near as bad and appeared pretty clear.
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Kersh, I'd say it came and went all day to be honest. We had everything thrown at us today except cold and snow! Still too warm here.
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Stubai's promo vid for the new 'Powder Department' - basically they 'created' some new offpiste runs, and have a tranny practise park. Not sure if the runs are 'open' yet, looking forward to them though.
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Hopefully it'll keep snowing 'til tomorrow!
