Anyone know any good resorts in europe for sledding?

We are looking for a good resort in Europe, where the skiing is good
AND there are good sled / toboggan routes, as not everyone in our
party skis. Does anyone know of any good resorts for this?

Alan van Wyk wrote:
We are looking for a good resort in Europe, where the skiing is good
AND there are good sled / toboggan routes, as not everyone in our
party skis. Does anyone know of any good resorts for this?

Davos

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Alan van Wyk wrote:
We are looking for a good resort in Europe, where the skiing is good
AND there are good sled / toboggan routes, as not everyone in our
party skis. Does anyone know of any good resorts for this?

Davos

I was about to say the same thing, but you beat me to it..

I haven't been sledding, but when I was there, there was loads of people
sledding - something that I haven't seen too much of at other resorts..
actually, where I saw a lot of sledding was under the gondola from mid
station going back into Klosters..

"Alan van Wyk" wrote in message
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We are looking for a good resort in Europe, where the skiing is good
AND there are good sled / toboggan routes, as not everyone in our
party skis. Does anyone know of any good resorts for this?


Probably a bit too ski-centric for the non-skiers but Val Thorens has an
excellent toboggan run

http://www.valthorens.com/hiver/uk/hiver.asp?link=luge


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Alan van Wyk wrote:
We are looking for a good resort in Europe, where the skiing is good
AND there are good sled / toboggan routes, as not everyone in our
party skis. Does anyone know of any good resorts for this?

Lech's toboggan run is fun - watch out for congestion though, one of our
party cracked a shoulder blade in a corner pile up....

Felly sgrifennodd Alan van Wyk :
We are looking for a good resort in Europe, where the skiing is good
AND there are good sled / toboggan routes, as not everyone in our
party skis. Does anyone know of any good resorts for this?

Jungfrau region. It has three long sled runs around the Scheidegg/
Mannlichen area, plus what claims to be the world's longest at First (but
I think you have a long walk to the top of that one). Apart from the
First run, all are well served by the Wengernalp Bahn, who do tickets
specially for sledders. These runs are miles long.

I tried one of them once and really enjoyed it. If I weren't so into skiing
I could easily get into sledding there.

Adrian

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AH wrote:
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Alan van Wyk wrote:

We are looking for a good resort in Europe, where the skiing is good
AND there are good sled / toboggan routes, as not everyone in our
party skis. Does anyone know of any good resorts for this?

Davos


I was about to say the same thing, but you beat me to it..

Sorry about that :-). It is really good for sledging, there is also a
run down from the Schatztalp and a very good run from the Rinerhorn.
Most resorts hate sledgers coz they get in the way of skiing but the
Rinerhorn descends the whole vertical of the resort on a good technical run.

Adrian D. Shaw wrote:
Felly sgrifennodd Alan van Wyk :

We are looking for a good resort in Europe, where the skiing is good
AND there are good sled / toboggan routes, as not everyone in our
party skis. Does anyone know of any good resorts for this?


Jungfrau region. It has three long sled runs around the Scheidegg/
Mannlichen area, plus what claims to be the world's longest at First (but
I think you have a long walk to the top of that one). Apart from the
First run, all are well served by the Wengernalp Bahn, who do tickets
specially for sledders. These runs are miles long.

I tried one of them once and really enjoyed it. If I weren't so into skiing
I could easily get into sledding there.

Adrian


Actually, pretty much anywhere in Switzerland. It's a big local pastime,
a lot of people go out purely to sled. The better runs will be quite a
few km long and have restaurants and drink stops. Some hills are
dedicated to sledding and the railway will sell combined tickets from
places like Bern to a sledging location with sled hire thrown in.

A common combination for people is sledging and spas.