Sudelfeld and Spitzing: fewer accidents on the slopes - danger due to lack of snow cover

Created: 01/13/2023 13:13

By: Jonas Napiletzki

Topographically less dangerous: The Sudelfeld also has white stripes on green meadows - but these are not lined with trees and rocks.

That reduces the risk of accidents, says the mountain rescue service.

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In the district of Miesbach, too, there are danger spots in ski areas due to a lack of snow.

So far, there have been no major accidents, says the mountain rescue service.

Bayrischzell/Schliersee

– Two out of ten pistes are accessible on the Spitzing, eleven out of 27 on the Sudelfeld.

Due to the warm winter, fun is at least spatially very limited.

This fact is a blessing for the Leitzachtal and Schliersee mountain rescue services: there were fewer accidents during the Christmas holidays than they have been for a long time.

However, the injured are unusually mixed: In the middle of winter, the volunteers rescue not only skiers but also hikers from the mountains.

Winter athletes disciplined on the Spitzing

Lorenz Haberle, spokesman for the Schliersee mountain rescue service, speaks of 15 missions between December 22nd and January 8th.

"Not much happened - before Corona there were about twice as many accidents in the same period." There were also "no outliers" among the alarms, i.e. not a particularly serious accident.

The Schliersee mountain rescue service only recorded one helicopter mission.

"An internal emergency on the Maxlraineralm," says Haberle.

Another hiker was also injured there – as in an accident on the Oberen Schönfeldalmen without ski equipment.

There have been seven classic piste accidents in the recent period, plus two first aids and three false alarms.

"We had the usual injuries in all accidents," explains the spokesman.

Knees or ligaments are usually affected, and according to Haberle, broken bones are also among the classics.

"Of course, there was a risk of serious injuries," emphasizes the mountain rescuer.

In Austria, 13 people died on ski slopes this season alone, and two young people from Germany also died in the Steinplatte ski area in the Tyrolean district of Kitzbühel (we reported in the national part).

The pistes were also dangerous because stones and trees outside the pistes were not covered by snow.

Haberle confirms: "The snow cover was also missing on the Spitzing."

But: "We were lucky - nothing happened." The athletes would stick to the secured areas in a disciplined manner.

Even if it had snowed a bit again, the danger of the slopes ending abruptly would remain.

However, the press spokesman emphasizes, the lift operators are "very hard" in securing the slopes.

Neuralgic danger spots are well padded with thick mats.

Lower frequency at the Sudelfeld

A few kilometers further on at Sudelfeld, Marinus Gruber sees "no major danger spots".

The spokesman for the mountain rescue service Leitzachtal, based in Bayrischzell, explains: "On the basis of geography and topography, I don't assume that we will have serious accidents due to less snow." There are few trees and stones lurking off the slopes - that's why the problem is very much dependent on the location.

So far, the volunteers from Bayrischzell had 50 assignments until January 11th.

"We usually reached this number at the end of December, so there were fewer missions than in previous years." This also corresponds to the number of helicopter missions: Gruber only recorded one flight for a patient with a head injury.

She was walking and had fallen at Lacherspitze.

There were no serious accidents with serious consequences in the catchment area of ​​the Bayrischzell mountain rescuers.

"This is certainly also due to the lower frequency due to the many closed slopes."

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"We had the busiest day on January 4th," reports Gruber.

He suspects that this could also have been due to ski courses that recently switched from other slopes to Sudelfeld - one of the few ski areas that are still in operation.

However, the speaker noticed that more and more hikers are out and about in the mountains.

"Thank God," says Gruber, "but everything is still okay." nap

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