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If you want to ski this season, you should aim high. Snow is scarce in low-lying ski areas. Keeping the slopes in good condition is not possible in many places. The winter season is already over in the first ski areas.
This also applies to Rigi in the cantons of Lucerne and Schwyz. The small ski area decided to stop skiing a week ahead of schedule. “The ski slopes were open for a total of six days this season,” Rigi Bahnen Managing Director Frédéric Füssenich (49) tells Blick.
Even if there is skiing on the Rigi, 80 percent of visitors are winter hikers. “The impact on business is therefore quite small,” says Füssenich.
Hiking instead of skiing
The Rigi region wants to continue to focus on winter hikers in the future. “It works with little or no profit,” Füssenich continues. He knows there will always be ski-free winters in the future.
Many ski regions face this problem. If you look at the slope reports on the Swiss Tourism platform, all of the pistes in more than 50 ski areas are closed.
The situation is the same at Snowpark Eriz in the Bernese Oberland: the winter season ended two weeks earlier than planned. “Due to the constant lack of profits and bad prospects,” the website says.
Only winter hiking trails and snowshoeing trails are still accessible. And there, too, the ski resort warns to be careful. Relevant weather and avalanche conditions should be observed.
Children’s cable car still open
At least the little ones can still hit the slopes at Grimmialp in Diemtigtal BE. Only the children’s chairlift with a slope of 200 meters remains open. There would have to be at least 50 centimeters of fresh snow before the other slopes could reopen. According to the Grimmialp website, the weather forecast will not report heavy snowfall.
The next weekend of March 4, the chairlift will be open to hikers and paragliders. The mountain restaurant also welcomes its guests.
The Braunwald GL ski area is bravely resisting: the track team assembles a new run every day from the remaining snow, as Blick reported a week ago.
Source :Blick
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