Blog Post
Skitrax World • Apr. 17, 2024
Ski slope connection for ski huts
Plan B for the ski huts and ski slope operators.
The largest restaurants in a ski area are usually located near the mountain railway at the valley station or on arrival at the mountain station. However, the most beautiful and coolest huts are usually located on the ski piste or hidden away a little. At the beginning of the ski season, an extra piste with fresh snow or artificial snow is created from the ski piste to the ski hut - which should then last for the whole season. This has now become a dream come true for many hut owners.
As winters get warmer, this piste preparation is unfortunately melting away faster and faster, so that there is often no snow piste to the hut by Christmas or carnival. This is bad news for the ski hut, as skiers can no longer ski to the hut and instead choose a rest stop that they can reach on skis. A major loss of revenue is inevitable!
The early installation of the Slopetrax sliding mats from the ski piste to the ski hut and back to the ski piste is the plan B for a winter with little or no snow. If the snow melts away, skiers can continue to ski to their favourite ski hut and return to the piste without any problems.
| Nummer | Vorname | Nachname | E-Mail-Adresse |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anne | Evans | anne.evans@mail.com |
| 2 | Bill | Fernandez | bill.fernandez@mail.com |
| 3 | Candice | Gates | candice.gates@mail.com |
| 4 | Dave | Hill | dave.hill@mail.com |
UPDATE - Other Installation
It would be so easy with the Lifttrax sliding mats. Many ski resorts with T-bar lifts below approx. 1000m have had to close their lifts due to a lack of snow. In most cases there is still enough snow to ski on the snow-covered sides of the lift, but the snow in the lift track has melted, so skiing has had to be stopped. It didn't have to be! Clever ski resorts have already covered the lift track with our Lifttrax SP skid mats before the first snowfall. First cover the ground with a fleece, then place the mats on top and fix them to the ground with pegs. This means that everything can be quickly dismantled again in spring and stored on pallets.
Straight from the cable car to the piste on Lifttrax sliding mats. The new cable car on the Ochsenkopf in the Fichtelgebirge (GER) will go into operation on 22.12.2023. The installation on the north side of the Ochsenkopf near the municipality of Bischofsgrün comprises 40 ten-passenger gondolas, which are also suitable for families with baby carriages, wheelchair users and monoskiers. The new cable car allows visitors to reach the 1024-metre-high mountain more comfortably, quickly and barrier-free. The gondolas have a transport capacity of around 2000 people per hour. Construction work on the cable car began in March 2023 to replace the old 32-year-old cable car. A particularly helpful attraction will be installed at the cable car exit. A wide track with the fast Lifttrax SP glide mats will be installed to enable monoskiers to glide quickly onto the piste with the skibob immediately after exiting. This allows monoskiers to glide optimally from the cable car exit to the piste.
Winter sports as an attractive year-round offer. Will there soon be alpine theme parks near major cities? It would be feasible in Zuerich, Hamburg, Vienna, Paris or Milan, but also in Singapore, Djakarta, Beijing, Los Angeles, Nairobi, Saigon and Santiago de Chile. When the snow is replaced by Skitrax sliding mats, nothing stands in the way of sliding, carving, gliding, lifting, drifting.
With speed to the lift entrance. For many years, Bergbahn Kitzbuehel (Austria) has been using Lifttrax sliding mats for the lift entry and exit of many chairlifts. Already at the end of October the snow season is opened at Pass Thurn (Resterhöhe). With hoarded "leftover snow" from the last season, an optimal training area can thus be made available to racers of the various performance levels at an early stage. Dozens of national teams train here until the first races of the season start.
Exhibition halls well filled. From 28.09.-30.09.2021 the fair "International Attraction & Amusement fair" (IAAPA) took place in Barcelona (Spain). On 18 m2 stand area we could welcome again many old and new customers. With great security measures the fair could be carried out without any problems.
Lift entrance is covered with mats. The Swiss mountain railway Lank has been using our Lifttrax sliding mats for their chairlift entrances for 10 years. At the Walleck valley station, the mats have been laid out for many years so that skiers can comfortably walk to the lift entrance without scratching the surface of their skis or snowboards. The Lenk ski area is in association with the Adelboden ski area, making it one of the most interesting and most visited ski areas in Switzerland.
Skitrax World - UPDATE - Neuheiten - News
365 Tage Tubing Bahn - Winter- und Sommergäste sind begeistert. Viele Wintersportorten betreiben im separaten Bereich neben der Skipiste eine Snowtubing Bahn. Naturschnee und/oder künstliche Beschneiung schaffen schnell eine gute Grundlage für einige Bahnen nebeneinander oder sogar mit rasanten Kurven. Alles nur möglich mit Schnee. Schmilzt der Schnee weg - lässt sich auf dreckigen Schnee noch eine Weile fahren - bis die beliebte Anlage schlissen muss. Sollte es wieder schneien, geht der ganze Produktionsprozess wieder von vorne los - mit viel Aufwand an Schnee und Mitarbeitern. Diesen Aufwand leisten sich die meisten Wintersportorte nicht mehr. Schade, denn es geht auch einfacher und unabhängig vom Schnee.
365-day tubing track - winter and summer guests are thrilled. Many winter sports resorts operate a snow tubing track in a separate area next to the ski piste. Natural snow and/or artificial snow quickly create a good basis for several tracks side by side or even with rapid curves. Everything is only possible with snow. If the snow melts away - you can still ride on dirty snow for a while - until the popular facility has to close. If it snows again, the whole production process starts all over again - with a lot of effort in terms of snow and employees. Most winter sports resorts can no longer afford this effort. That's a shame, because there is an easier way, regardless of the snow.
Plan B für die Skihütten und Skipistenbetreiber. Die größten Restaurants in einem Skigebiet sind meist in der Nähe der Bergbahn an der Talstation oder bei der Ankunft auf der Bergstation. Die schönsten und fetzigsten Hütten liegen aber überwiegende an der Skipiste oder etwas Abseits der Skipiste. Zu Beginn der Ski Saison wird eine extra Piste mit Neuschnee oder Kunstschnee von der Skipiste zur Skihütte angelegt - die dann für die ganze Saison reichen soll. Mittlerweile ein Wunschtraum geworden.
Die Attraktion auf dem Weihnachtsmarkt in Lagos (Portugal). Mit 30m Länge und zwei Rutschbahnen, war diese Tubing Bahn in der Süd Portugiesischen Stadt Lagos das Highlight auf dem Weihnachtsmarkt. Nach den Ankunft wartete schon eine ca. 4m hohe Staffage auf die Lieferung. Schnell wurden die Tubtrax-M1 Modulen aus rostfreien Stahl vom LKW geladen. Darauf wurden die Tubtrax Gleitmatten befestigt und dann nacheinander auf den Holzbrettern der Staffage befestigt. Fertig - schon beginnt der Tubing Spass.
The attraction at the Christmas market in Lagos (Portugal). With a length of 30m and two slides, this tubing ride was the highlight of the Christmas market in the southern Portuguese city of Lagos. Upon arrival, a 4m high staffage was already waiting for the delivery. The stainless steel Tubtrax M1 modules were quickly loaded from the truck. The Tubtrax sliding mats were attached to them and then fixed one after the other to the wooden planks of the staffage. Done - the tubing fun begins. Naturally on our fast and robust Epic Tube in various sizes.
Wir bieten ganzjährige Attraktionen. „Dort wo Schnee fehlt“: Unter diesem Motto vertreibt Skitrax Attraktionen auf Basis von Kunststoffmatten. Die Ideen des Unternehmens eignen sich dabei für jede Jahreszeit.
Es wäre doch so einfach mit den Slopetrax Gleitmatten. Bei den olympischen Winterspielen 2026 wird Skibergsteigen erstmals ins olympische Programm aufgenommen. Grund genug, sich der immer beliebter werdenden Sportart zu nähern. Immer mehr Menschen gehen im Winter auf Skitour und genießen die Kombination aus forderndem Aufstieg und Abfahrten in unpräpariertem Gelände. Beim Skibergsteigen liegt der Fokus weniger auf der Geschwindigkeit als vielmehr auf dem Aufstieg und der Bewältigung des Geländes. Im Gegensatz zum alpinen Skifahren, bei dem es um rasante Abfahrten geht, ist das Skibergsteigen eine Disziplin, die den Aufstieg in unberührtem Gelände betont.
It would be so easy with the Slopetrax sliding mats. Ski mountaineering will be included in the Olympic programme for the first time at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Reason enough to take a closer look at this increasingly popular sport. More and more people are going ski touring in winter and enjoying the combination of challenging ascents and descents in unprepared terrain. In ski mountaineering, the focus is less on speed and more on the ascent and mastering the terrain. In contrast to alpine skiing, which is all about fast descents, ski mountaineering is a discipline that emphasises the ascent in untouched terrain.
Shredding over the obstacles. A lot has changed in recent years. Globally, the demand for "skiing & snowboarding & tubing" is growing rapidly. Especially in countries where there is no snow or only in high mountain areas, the interest is very high. On small or large alpine ry slope slopes, no matter where in the world, alpine skiers, slopestylers, freestylers, skicrossers, freeskiers can do all year round what otherwise only works in the "snow" areas - carving, riding, sliding, jumping until the lights are turned off. The middle class in countries like China, Thailand, Brazil, Mexico and many more is growing fast and so is the desire for first skiing opportunities. The more "on-site skiing" is offered and refined on dry slope mats in these countries, and even cooperations are entered into, e.g. with winter sports areas in the Alps, the more winter sports enthusiasts come from these countries to the advertising winter sports areas later in the winter.