Book tip: Stubai Alps

The Stubai Alps are a versatile and popular ski touring area due to their size, diversity and convenient location. You can find the right ski tour for practically all conditions and all seasons. While the Brenner mountains, the Sellrain and the area around the Axamer Lizum are popular and proven destinations in early and high winter, the tours on the main ridge become interesting in spring. Even at the end of May, you can often still find perfect conditions in the highest areas of the Stubai Alps. The Stubai Alps are so well developed with roads and huts that you are not often alone. Nevertheless, many of the tours in the Stubai Alps are high alpine undertakings that not only require ski touring experience, but also precise planning. The new ski touring guide "Stubai Alps" by Jan Piepenstock makes the latter easier. Over 200 tours to 168 destinations are described on 324 pages, from A for Ampferstein to Z for Zuckerhütl. This makes the guidebook probably the most comprehensive for this region.
The guide is divided into 19 areas: There are popular regions such as the Obernbergtal, but also secluded areas such as the Windach and Timmelstal as well as 9 huts with their respective tour destinations. A schematic map is included for each of the areas, which does not replace a topographical map, but makes it easier to find a tour on one and also gives a quick overview of the layout of the tours in an area. A detailed description of the ascent and descent is included for each tour, as well as information on route finding and particular danger spots. Often you will also find helpful comments on the typical snow distribution in the area and how much and how often the tour is used. There are also summarized key points on the starting point, altitude and avalanche risk for each tour. The whole thing is rounded off with overview photos with marked routes.

Here you can order the tour guide from the publisher...