J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by mackar

You're welcome :-)

Visited Bydalen in Sweden last week. I usually ski in Åre when I ski in Sweden but wanted to try a new place. Bydalen is located about 70 km from the airport in Östersund but we traveled by car from Stockholm a 650km trip, it was snowing quite heavily to it took us about 7 hours.

We have just arrived :-)


We had a lot of fresh snow during the week and there were not many people there, usually we could ski around without seeing anyone else.


Some thoughts about the place.

Pros:
Almost no people there so you can find fresh snow many days after last snow fall
Easily accessible off-piste

Cons:
Small system
Only t-bar lifts
No huts/restaurants on the mountain only in valley
Not steep enough for us

We had a great week but that was mostly because of the weather. I guess the experience would be better if we would know where to go off-piste, we skied beside the pistes but didn't want to go further away without a guide.

So if you want a place with lot of restaurants, large ski system and fast lifts this isn't the place for you but if you want a quiet place with easy access to off-piste this could be the place.

Easiest way is by plane to Innsbruck and then bus to Neustift. I don't have any direct flights from Stockholm to Innsbruck so I either fly to München and rent a car or go by car all the way from Stockholm.

Had another fantastic 10 days on Stubaier Gletscher last year, arrived there in the end of March and didn't think I would get any fresh snow but we got it Happy it snowed a couple of times during those days. Weather was really nice most of the week so they had to close the piste going all the way to the bottom on our last day.



Had one or two days with bad weather also and one of those days a kid broke his leg just in front of us so we helped them to get hold of a Heli. It happened on his first ski day and one day before his birthday Sad
Got information from the boys dad couple of weeks later that he was OK and they were planning to do another ski trip.
http://youtube.com/v/0UIzs8CTrTk

Stubaier Gletscher is open until 4th of July This was filmed there two weeks ago and they have received some more snow since then so you should get quite good skiing in May

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOVyErvNFW0

dean350 wrote:Thanks for posting this. It looks fantastic! Can you recall if there was a ski school at the glacier? My daughter would need lessons.

Yes there is a ski school there, I learned skiing there 20 years ago and took a private lessen last time, have a lot of friends that have used them for their kids. They have one office in Neustift and the other on the mountain.

http://www.schischule-neustift.com/index.php/en/

dean350 wrote:Thanks I shall certainly check these out. Neustift.Fulpmes and the Stubai Valley have also come to my attention due to their very close proximity to Innsbruck and the presence of a glacier.

I've been to Stubaital recently and the skiing in April is very good. We were there the week before easter and there were no that many people in the slopes, they also have a good area for kids.

We were up early so the morning runs were really great.