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You should have these winter sports apps with you on the ski slopes

Roughly speaking, there are three categories of apps for snow sports enthusiasts that can be useful in the ski area and on the slopes.

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You should have these winter sports apps with you on the ski slopes

Roughly speaking, there are three categories of apps for snow sports enthusiasts that can be useful in the ski area and on the slopes. Those that inform, those that measure performance and those that warn and call for help in an emergency.

Snow and piste reports, live images from webcams, but also piste maps are the specialty of information apps such as Bergfex (Android and iOS), Skiresort (Android and iOS) or Snow Reports (Android and iOS).

The second group includes the tracker apps, which record how long and how fast you were on the skis, how many kilometers of slopes and meters of altitude you had at the end of the day, or how many descents are finally on the clock.

Some of the apps also try to determine the calorie consumption so that you know whether you should eat soup at the hut or order the schnitzel. Tracker apps include Skiing (Android and iOS), Skiline (Android and iOS) or Athlete Ski Tracker (Android).

Anyone who goes off-piste as a ski tourer, snowshoe hiker or freerider will be interested in apps that display the official avalanche reports and corresponding warnings.

These are, for example, Snowsafe (e.g. for Bavaria, many Austrian federal states, South Tyrol or Veneto), Lawine Tirol (for the Austrian federal state of Tyrol) or White Risk (for Switzerland).

In the event of a skiing accident, mountain rescue can always be reached across Europe via the 112. National or local alpine emergency calls are often signposted on information boards or can be requested on site.

At least one EU emergency call can be made to 112 via “SOS EU ALP” (Android and iOS). In many Alpine regions, however, the app can also send the GPS location data and the telephone number directly to the responsible rescue control center so that the rescue services can head to the accident site with pinpoint accuracy. The purely Swiss equivalent of "SOS EU ALP" is called Rega (Android and iOS).

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