Raich is the reigning giant slalom champion

Men's and women's giant slaloms will take place on 22 and 23 October.

Reigning World Cup champion Bode Miller is expected to take part, although he is still in America after his brother was injured in a motorcycle crash.

Last season's World Cup giant slalom champion Benjamin Raich will compete but Austrian team-mate Hermann Maier is still recovering from injury.

Maier, who won giant slalom gold at the World Championships, was involved in a spectacular training accident in New Zealand in August.

After Soelden there is a month's break before the season resumes in Lake Louise in Canada in November. He said: "I hope that when the season really gets going in north America everything will be perfect again."

I've had so many injuries at least they don't faze me. I'm back on snow but I'm not back in the pipe yet Lesley McKenna

Women's overall World Cup winner, Sweden's Anja Paerson, and giant slalom champion, Finland's Tanja Poutiainen, are set to start.

The snowboard World Cup season heads to Saas Fee in Switzerland next weekend and Britain will have three men competing in the half-pipe.

Dom Harington, Ben Kilner and Dan Wakeham have already clinched a top 25 finish this season and each need one more to satisfy the British Olympic Association qualifying criteria for next year's Winter Olympics.

Lesley McKenna will not be taking part in the women's half-pipe as she has only just returned to snow training after breaking her right ankle at the end of last season.

McKenna, in London to promote her snowboard film Transfer, told BBC Sport: "I've had so many injuries at least they don't faze me. I'm back on snow but I'm not back in the pipe yet.

"I'm targeting Whistler in Canada in December for my first World Cup half-pipe of the season."

Zoe Gillings, Britain's snowboardercross competitor, missed the season-opening race in Chile but is expected to take part in Saas Fee.