Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
MAGIC MOUNTAINS<br />
Saalbach and its three<br />
neighbouring villages<br />
combine to make<br />
a skier’s paradise<br />
Saalbach<br />
<strong>The</strong> crowd pleaser<br />
A snowsports mecca that pulls out all the stops<br />
Skicircus Saalbach Hinterglemm<br />
Leogang Fieberbrunn is – as its<br />
impressive full name suggests<br />
– a whole lot of ski resort; one<br />
that’s frequented by the world’s<br />
best skiers and snowboarders.<br />
To break down that name,<br />
Hinterglemm is in the same<br />
valley as Saalbach, and Leogang<br />
and Fieberbrunn are next door.<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir combined 270km of pisted<br />
ski runs make the Skicircus one<br />
of the biggest resorts in Europe.<br />
As you’d expect, with such<br />
a large piste map comes a<br />
remarkable range of riding.<br />
Beginner or intermediate skiers<br />
have access to a variety of route<br />
options from most of the 70 lifts.<br />
If you’re an expert, there are<br />
long, challenging black runs –<br />
not least the 12er KOGEL, which<br />
spans 3.6km on gradients of up<br />
to 72 per cent and has been used<br />
as an FIS World Cup route.<br />
Knee-deep off-piste is in no<br />
short supply, either. As well as<br />
the Lycra-clad racers, the world’s<br />
best freeriders come to the<br />
Skicircus to compete in the<br />
Freeride World Tour. <strong>The</strong>y’re<br />
next scheduled to drop from the<br />
Wildseeloder in Fieberbrunn in<br />
March 2020.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Skicircus is worldrenowned<br />
for freeriding, worldclass<br />
for racing, and it has the<br />
tour stops to prove it.<br />
MIRJA GEH (2), DER BRECHER, DANIEL ROOS<br />
74 THE RED BULLETIN
Change language