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This is like the Alpine slide in Whitefish, 10 times longer, and 100 times more awesome!

buh, buh, buh... I wanna go NEXT!

Wow! So many questions...
How long is it distance-wise?
How fast did it get going?
What is it there for?
Why were there no other cars on the track?
How do the cars get back up to the top?

>> ^Deadrisenmortal:

buh, buh, buh... I wanna go NEXT!
Wow! So many questions...
How long is it distance-wise?
How fast did it get going?
What is it there for?
Why were there no other cars on the track?
How do the cars get back up to the top?


Without knowing a thing about it...

-It's got to be a good 3-4 km.
-Didn't look faster than 50km/h (30mph)
-Making money or having fun, depending on what side of the cash you're on.
-No other cars for the same reason there's only ever 1 car on any roller coaster. Collisions.
-I'd think you slide it off at the bottom and head back up the tram with it under your arm. Repeatedly.

I'm just trying to work out how it stays upright with only one pipe

I have found the native website
I think they are missing a huge market of thrill seekers.

So it's 2.8km long with a height difference of 640m (the start is at an elevation of 1620m) and a top speed of 42km/h. Brought to you by the metric system...

Dude kinda sounds like the Travelocity Gnome...

I take my family up to Big Bear CA in the summer months at least once a year. There is an alpine sled that comes down a ski slope there. It's probably only about 200-300 yards long and it simply zip-zags down the hillside.....that's what I was imagining in my mind before I watched the video. HOLY MACKEREL!!! This thing is awesome. My little daughters love that alpine sled in Big Bear, but this coaster is a another beast entirely. It looks like so much fun; however, I don't think there is any chance at all that I would go down that thing without applying the breaks.

Are you strapped in?

>> ^Payback:

>> ^Deadrisenmortal:
buh, buh, buh... I wanna go NEXT!
Wow! So many questions...
How long is it distance-wise?
How fast did it get going?
What is it there for?
Why were there no other cars on the track?
How do the cars get back up to the top?

Without knowing a thing about it...
-It's got to be a good 3-4 km.
-Didn't look faster than 50km/h (30mph)
-Making money or having fun, depending on what side of the cash you're on.
-No other cars for the same reason there's only ever 1 car on any roller coaster. Collisions.
-I'd think you slide it off at the bottom and head back up the tram with it under your arm. Repeatedly.


Don't you guys don't know Sommerrodelbahnen? :-)

They are very popular in Alps' tourist regions (i.e. Austria, Switzerland and southern parts of Germany). I'd go so far and say every ski area has at least one of them. They serve a single purpose: entertain tourists in summer months.

Nearly every time there's other cars on the track. That's why its not so easy to go down without braking. most of the time you have some mom with their kid (usually there's one and two seated cars) in front of you. So braking is not a question of braveness but of collision prevention ;-)

Mieders is one of the longest tracks but a bit more boring compared to others which offer 360 curves etc.

The carts get pulled up on a seperate track, on older tracks you wear seatbelts, some have racing car like "H" belts and the newest and fastest have the same metal "bars" that roller coasters have. the cars cannot slip of the track because it's built something like that:

__cccc
cccccccc
cccccccc
cc_TT_cc
ccc__ccc

Where "c" is cart and "T" is track, "_" can be ignored ;-)

The only downside: A ride usually is pretty expensive.

It seems to me i just got a promising business idea for the US :-D But i guess those tracks are not popular in the Rockys etc. because you guys have 12 months of snow in your ski areas i assume whereas in most ski areas of the alps ski season is from early november to late march.

Why are these things not everywhere?

This is an awesome post! I rode one of these things in Connecticut I think, when I was 7 or 8. My Dad rode with me and hammered the break the whole way while I fought him for it. It is so great to see what it would have been like if my Dad let me go faster!

What the cars look like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA-k3G1F7k0