Skicircus Saalbach Hinterglemm Plans For November 26th Opening

If you don't know the Skicircus Saalbach Hinterglemm Leogang Fieberbrunn, you will first smile at the long name. Just as long as the name is, however, the variety around the coolest ski area in the Alps. The cross-state region not only connects 270 kilometers of slopes, 70 modern lifts and 60 cozy, stylish huts, but also one feeling: the spirit of the Home of Lässig - or in other words: the individual feeling of happiness! And that is what fun-loving families, sporty alpine skiers and individualistic freeriders will find here alike.

But how do you define this feeling of happiness? For some it is the care and warmth that can be felt from the hotel to the ski school - for others it is the perfection of the groomed slopes and the ultra-modern mountain railways. Or is it the untracked powder slopes and the "faceshots" that put a smile on your face? The "Home of Lässig" is all about joie de vivre, cosiness and diversity, a varied and incomparable time that will be remembered forever.

What is your individual happiness?

In the Alps there are many beautiful places, family-friendly ski areas and especially good food in the Austrian part of the mountain range. But it's only really casual in the Skicircus Saalbach Hinterglemm Leo-gang Fieberbrunn. What makes the Skicircus so unique?

1. The long name
Anyone who does not know the Skicircus Saalbach Hinterglemm Leogang Fieberbrunn will first smile at the long name. The diversity around the ski area is just as long as the name. The cross-federal state region not only connects 270 kilometers of slopes and 70 modern lifts, but also three communities that could hardly be more different.

2. 3 places - 2 federal states - 1 common denominator
Saalbach Hinterglemm is the liveliest place in the Skicircus. Two town centers with cozy pedestrian zones invite you to stroll and almost every accommodation is near a mountain railway or right on the edge of a slope. Saalfelden Leogang impresses with its wide range of sporting activities. Those who want to spend their winter holidays not only skiing, but also in the Nordic region, have come to the right place in these family-friendly places. The Skicircus also opens up the sporty, family-friendly town of Fieberbrunn beyond the border of the Salzburg region to our neighbors in Tyrol. While you will find an all-round colorful offer for families and active winter vacationers, freeriders cavort on the peaks to make their first tracks on the deeply snow-covered slopes.

3. 408 kilometers of slopes and 121 lifts
With the Ski ALPIN CARD - the ticket network with the Schmittenhöhe in Zell am See and the Kitzsteinhorn Kaprun - you can enjoy the fabulous views of Lake Zell and high alpine air in addition to the extensive range on offer at the Skicircus Saalbach Hinterglemm Leogang Fieberbrunn sniff on the glacier. And for that you don't even need a car from the Skicircus. The Viehhofen exit (168, Zone I) takes you directly to the valley station of the zellamseeXpress and thus to the Schmittenhöhe and back.

4. Feelings of happiness in powder snow
When you experience skiing in its most original form, when you take your turns early in the morning on the untracked slope and you glide gently over the powder snow, you feel a sense of happiness that cannot be compared with anything else. In the Skicircus, this feeling is usually only a cable car away, because many routes are not far from the state-of-the-art infrastructure. Freeriders who want to earn their turns hike to the coolest backcountry spots. Extensive deep snow slopes and exposed flanks even attract the world's elite to the Freeride World Tour in Fieberbrunn every year.

5. The child's heart is laughing here
Who doesn't fondly remember their family vacation in the mountains? The first successful turns in the snow? And the happy faces when you've conquered a mountain from the summit to the valley for the first time? In the Skicircus Saalbach Hinterglemm Leogang Fieberbrunn, piste dwarfs and mini-carvers are introduced to the sport in a playful way in dedicated ski schools. Fun slopes, snow trails and family parks, where the children forget the day's exertions for joy and fun, ensure variety on the slopes. Attractive family packages round off a carefree holiday in the mountains.

6. Alpine lifestyle - the finest cuisine on the mountain
What is part of a successful day on the slopes as well as a fantastic mountain panorama, fast paths to the summit and perfect slopes? The contemplation! And that is by no means neglected in the Skicircus Saalbach Hinterglemm Leogang Fieberbrunn. Whether a rustic 300-year-old alpine pasture, a traditionally furnished hut or an exclusive mountain restaurant with the finest noble cuisine: With over 60 refreshment stops on the mountain, there is something for every wish. If you are looking for peace and relaxation here and want to lie in the sun in a deck chair after a hearty lunch, you will find what you are looking for, as will the ambitious winter sports enthusiast who just wants to regain strength quickly in order to fully exhaust the day on the slopes.

Après-ski with a difference! Cozy huts and bars invite you to end a successful day of skiing comfortably. Modern architecture combined with traditional style elements in the mountains combined with chilled lounge music and the finest cuisine and home-style cooking: this is how tomorrow's après-ski works. You can also enjoy exclusive, unusual dishes and high-quality wines on the finely decorated terraces with panoramic views of the huts in the Skicircus Saalbach Hinterglemm Leogang Fieberbrunn.

7. Hiking in the winter wonderland
With or without snowshoes: winter hiking in Saalbach Hinterglemm Leogang Fieberbrunn is a particularly relaxing pleasure. On 140 km of winter hiking trails, you can explore the winter landscape on the mountains and in the valley on foot and concentrate fully on the surrounding nature. Far away from all the lifts you will find peace and relaxation. And if you need a day off from skiing, you can still meet up with family or friends at a hut on the mountain for lunch along the sunny hiking trails.

8. Sporty vacation - Nordic winter
The Skicircus is a diverse winter sports region. The Nordic Park at the Ritzensee in Saalfelden Leogang is a perfect starting point for anyone interested in Nordic sports. Here even the youngest learn the basics of cross-country skiing in the Fun & Snow Park, cross-country skiing fans get their money's worth and at the natural ice rink you can prove yourself as an ice-skating princess or prince. A cross-country skiing holiday in Fieberbrunn, which is also referred to as the "snow hole" of the Kitzbühel Alps, means a sport and nature experience in a class of its own. Fieberbrunn impresses with its perfectly groomed network of cross-country ski trails with different routes in different levels of difficulty. Whether classic or skating style, beginners or professional, every cross-country skier gets his money's worth here.

9. The largest ski circuit in the Alps - The Challenge
"Ski your limit" is the name of the slogan that describes one of the most demanding ski circuits of the winter and its key figures speak for themselves: 65 kilometers of downhill length, 32 lifts, 12,400 meters in altitude. The ski circus circuit in the “Home of Lässig” can be done in around 7 hours for sporty skiers - a short lunch is not planned. Challenge accepted?

With these distances, "The Challenge" ranks at the top of the renowned ski circuits in the Alps and even outshines the "Sellaronda", the "White Ring" or the "Königstour". You should allow around seven hours for this demanding ski circuit in the Skicircus, which leads around one of the most varied and extensive ski areas in Austria. In this challenge, athletic performance is definitely in the foreground. A long stop in one of the many rustic huts along the way, dreamy summit moments or cozy sunbathing is better postponed to the next day of skiing, because 32 lifts between Saalbach Hinterglemm, Leogang and Fieberbrunn have to be caught for this ski marathon.

10. Numerous activities away from the slopes
Leisure hikers and romantics will find comfortable (snowshoe) hiking trails in the Skicircus Saalbach Hinterglemm Leogang Fieberbrunn in the middle of the winter wonderland. Cozy horse-drawn sleigh rides or a walk over the Golden Gate Bridge of the Alps and the tree-top path turn the winter experience away from the slopes into a dreamy excursion like something out of a fairy tale.

Dare high-flyers with the Flying Fox XXL - one of the fastest and longest steel cable slides in the world - top speeds of up to 130 km / h and view the Alps from above while paragliding.

Families and toboggan fans can look forward to five toboggan runs with different attributes. After a successful day of skiing, a trip on Timok's Alpine Coaster directly at the Streuböden middle station in Fieberbrunn is also tempting (included in the valid ski pass).

New in winter 2021/22

During the summer months, the Skicircus again invested in guaranteed snow and improved comfort for all winter sports enthusiasts. The start of construction of the Limberg 8-seater chairlift on the Schattberg and the technical lift connection to Viehhofen have been postponed indefinitely due to the Corona crisis and the associated delays.

The new ALPIN CARD NAVIGATOR
The navigation APP for three premium ski regions

From winter 2021/22, the three premium ski regions Skicircus Saalbach Hinterglemm Leogang Fieberbrunn, Schmittenhöhe in Zell am See and Kitzsteinhorn Kaprun - or their ticket network ALPIN CARD - will also take you mobile and digital across all mountains and slopes to your desired destination. Even if you have lost your orientation on the way, are looking for a specific hut or just want to swing over blue slopes: the app is the map. Always with you, always helpful, with announcement and all functions like a street navigation system.

Always know where to go

After around a year of intensive development, the free ALPIN CARD NAVIGATOR app will be available for IOS and Android at the start of the 2021/22 winter season. This means that the entire piste network of the three premium ski regions Skicircus Saalbach Hinterglemm Leogang Fieberbrunn, Schmittenhöhe in Zell am See and Kitzsteinhorn Kaprun is available at all times with all the important information: positioning, route guidance, route selection, highlights. With the three categories of lifts, huts and attractions, the innovative APP offers quick access to the desired topic, leads to more detailed descriptions and also enables intermediate destinations to be entered.

Reach your destination safely and individually

For example, if you are on a slope in the Skicircus and want to go over the Schmittenhöhe to the Kitzsteinhorn, the app shows the route including downhill runs, lift rides and any bus connections. The app also suggests different levels of difficulty for the desired route - each with a time. So the descent can be chosen individually according to your own ability. Then you press start and off you go. Directional information comes during the journey via voice announcement over the headphones or you stop and check the situation on your smartphone in peace. The app also calculates closed lift connections in the navigation and notifies them by means of a push message.

In connection with the new slope guidance system in the Skicircus Saalbach Hinterglemm Leogang Fieberbrunn since the last winter season, this enables easy, fast and safe progress in the ski area - especially for children and young people.

Download before downhill!

With the ALPIN CARD NAVIGATOR, the three premium ski regions Skicircus Saalbach Hinterglemm Leogang Fieberbrunn, Schmittenhöhe in Zell am See and Kitzsteinhorn Kaprun have developed one of the most modern piste apps and offer their guests even more safety and comfort. The free APP is designed to be extremely user-friendly and will certainly live up to its slogan this winter: The APP is the map!

Carrying skis was yesterday! Ski connection from the Bernkogel (slope 146) to the A1 + A2 Schattberg X-press

Good news for all those who don't like to take skis and snowboards for a walk, but prefer to swing casually and directly in front of the valley station. The ski connection from the Bernkogel (slope 146) to the A1 + A2 Schattberg X-press will mean a major improvement in comfort for all winter sports enthusiasts from next winter. Operations director of the Saalbacher Bergbahnen, DI Walter Steiner, explains:“The idea for this connection had matured in our heads for a long time. When it comes to comfort, shouldering your skis for a walk from the Bernkogel to the Schattberg is no longer up-to-date. The 6 to 10 meter wide ski path leads through a 25 meter long underpass and over a total length of 300 meters from piste 146, just above the G1 Bernkogelbahn valley station, directly to the parking lot of the A1 + A2 Schattberg X-press. Construction began on this project as early as September 2019, with extensive slope stabilization work and the construction of the underpass. In the course of the construction, of course, the possibility of technical snow-making with lances was also provided for this ski path. "

Rosswald storage pond (to be completed in 2021): 230,000 m³ capacity for safe fun in the snow

In Hinterglemm, the starting shot was given in summer 2020 for a two-year construction project to further improve snow reliability. The new Rosswald reservoir with a net volume of around 230,000 m³ is located directly on the high-altitude cross-country ski trail and on the multifunctional trail between Rosswaldhütte and Wieseralm. It multiplies the snow production of the Filzen storage pond on the Reiterkogel, which was previously used for this area. Ing. Sepp Schwabl, technical manager of the Hinterglemmer Bergbahnen, reports: “The reservoir, which is currently under construction, will supply the ski area between Rosswald and Reiterkogel from winter 2021. The construction of the pumping station and the necessary earthworks were already carried out this summer. After extensive renaturation work, this reservoir will also present itself as a popular excursion destination in the summer, because it blends in wonderfully with the picturesque surroundings of the Rosswald. Due to the good accessibility, the reservoir is ideal for possible summer use. In the summer of 2020 and 2021, the Berg Kodok adventure trail will be rerouted due to construction work - but the lake will be integrated into the course of the themed trail as early as summer 2022. Despite the construction site, the high-altitude trail between Reiteralm and Rosswaldhütte will be usable this winter with a small detour. "

Together safely through the winter

Big changes have shaped the last few months - COVID-19 is affecting our lives worldwide. The focus is on safety and the personal health of every single person, even more than before, as the greatest asset - also in the thoughts and actions of the cable car companies in the ALPIN CARD ticket network Skicircus Saalbach Hinterglemm Leogang Fieberbrunn, Schmittenhöhe Zell am See and Kitzsteinhorn Kaprun.

In compliance with the currently valid regulations and additional safety measures, the extensive range of the ticket network with 121 cable cars and lifts and 408 kilometers of slopes is convincing. Due to the vastness of the region, vacationing with a safe distance is not a problem. In addition, 23 cable cars from the valley provide additional unbundling when entering the ski area.

Measures:
• Signs and information points in the ski area: These indicate the code of conduct at the cable cars and in the entire ski area.
• Masks and tube scarves (MNS): wearing an MNS is compulsory in the areas marked accordingly.
• Organized queuing areas: The queuing areas are organized independently of the current legal requirements in such a way that groups of people standing close together are avoided as far as possible.
• Hand hygiene: Hand disinfection options are installed in the cable car systems in the indoor area.
• Number of people: A reduction in the maximum number of people permitted in the cable car cabins or chairlifts is not legally binding, but the permitted capacities are not used if the number of passengers is correspondingly low. An MNS must always be worn in cable cars.
• Disinfection measures: All cable car cabins are disinfected regularly. Disinfection measures are also carried out regularly in elevator cabins, escalators, sanitary facilities, ski depots and first aid rooms.
• Employees are tested for COVID-19 before starting their work for the first time. For those who are in customer contact, event-related follow-up tests are carried out, with an ongoing test option.
• Employees with contact with guests are instructed to wear an MNS. Before starting work, all employees are measured daily for their body temperature.

The situation is continuously evaluated and the measures are adapted accordingly. Current information at https://www.saalbach.com/de/winter/skigebiet/sicherheit-durch-den-winter