Silvretta Montafon (Ski area)

The Silvretta Montafon ski area is located in the Montafon valley in Vorarlberg (Austria). It is one of Austria's ten largest ski areas. The Silvretta Montafon ski area originally existed of the two ski areas Silvretta Nova (St. Gallenkirch, Gaschurn) and Hochjoch (Schruns, Silbertal) that have been merged in 2008.

Silvretta Montafon
LocationVorarlberg, Austria
Nearest major citySchruns, Bludenz
Top elevation2430 m
Base elevation700 m
Skiable area141 km
Lift system
Websitehttps://www.silvretta-montafon.at/en

Pistes

The ski area offers 141 km of pistes over 50% of which are at over 2,000 meters.[1] These 141 km consist of 27 easy pistes (60 km), 24 pistes of medium difficulty (45 km), 8 difficult pistes (8 km) and 28 km free ride routes.[2] Skiers can improve their racing skills on two speed measurement tracks. Additionally, there are 8 km of winter hiking trails.

Snow park Montafon

The snow park is situated at 2050m sea level, its surface covers 300,000m². The fun park includes 13 elements such as a boardercross, a funslope, jumps, corners, boxes, rails and wave rides.

Cross-country skiing

The Silvretta Montafon offers 37 classic cross-country ski-runs (72.5 km), 13 skating courses (20.9 km), as well as 7 high cross-country skiing routes (31.3 km).[3]

Sledding

There are two toboggan runs which are floodlit for night-time tobogganing.

Lift systems

The lift infrastructure moves skiers with the help of 10 cable cars, 18 chairlifts and 5 drag lifts.[4]

FIS Snowboard World Cup

The SBX World Cup Montafon is part of the FIS Snowboard World Cup since 2012/13. It takes place annually in December. The races are held in the Silvretta Montafon ski area, starting a little below the Hochjoch summit and finishing near the cable car's mountain station. The difference in altitude between start and finish is around 200 m.

The snowboard-cross athletes race down the 985 m long World Cup track at speeds of up to 65 km/h. The descent doesn't take more than 60 seconds.[5] The parallel slalom course however is 280 m long.

During the World Cup, visitors can watch the snowboarders and skiers during the day time and enjoy concerts in Schruns in the night time.[6]

World Cup races in the Montafon valley
  • 2018/19: In December 2018, all races of the Montafon World Cup had to be cancelled due to lack of snow.[7]
  • 2017/18: snowboard cross (men/ladies), team snowboard cross (men/ladies) on 16 Dec 2017
  • 2016/17: snowboard cross (men/ladies) on 16 Dec 2016, team snowboard cross (men/ladies) on 18 Dec 2016
  • 2015/16: snowboard cross (men/ladies) on 12 Dec 2015, team events (men/ladies) on 13 Dec 2015
  • 2014/15: parallel slalom (men/ladies) on 18 Dec 2014, team events (men/ladies) on 19 Dec 2014
  • 2013/14: snowboard cross (men/ladies) on 7 Dec 2013, team events (men/ladies) on 8 Dec 2013
  • 2012/13: snowboard cross (men/ladies) on 7 Dec 2012, team events (men/ladies) on 8 Dec 2012


Panoramic view of the Silvretta Nova

References
  1. "Skiing - Silvretta Montafon". www.silvretta-montafon.at. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
  2. "Skiing Silvretta Montafon: Ski area Silvretta Montafon - Snowboarding Silvretta Montafon - Cross-country skiing". www.bergfex.com. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
  3. "Skiing Silvretta Montafon: Ski area Silvretta Montafon - Snowboarding Silvretta Montafon - Cross-country skiing". www.bergfex.com. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
  4. "Skiing Silvretta Montafon: Ski area Silvretta Montafon - Snowboarding Silvretta Montafon - Cross-country skiing". www.bergfex.com. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
  5. "Weltcup Montafon im Dezember 2019". www.montafon.at (in German). Retrieved 2019-03-03.
  6. "World cup Montafon December 2020". www.montafon.at. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  7. "Weltcup in Montafon – The world's top-ranking ski- and snowboard-crossathletes". Urlaub in Vorarlberg. 2018-09-17. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
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