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10 cm artificial snow at Hocheck ski resort - Kids are excited
Sommer Rail with Skitrax tiles make this happend
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05.07.2010 -
It finally happened this weekend. 10 cm “artificial snow” were enough
for a 30 metre long rail at the lower station of the mountain tram
Hocheck. Already at 9 a.m. freestylers from Germany and Austria got
together to do their runs on ski and snowboard on the specially built
summer rail at the lower station of the mountain tram Hocheck. Optically
it’s quite strange when the freestylers get into action at an outdoor
temperature of 25°C, wearing ski shoes, long ski pants, gloves, helmet,
jacket and sun glasses, then stampeding uphill over lawn to then speed
down the rails.
By the end of March the winter season with snow actually came to an end,
however, with the new artificial mats from Skitrax, the season makes no
difference, therefore allowing skiing and snowboarding in the summer
months. “This is like snow! Very cool”, commented Christoph Koller, on
of the top freestylers from the “Audorfer” Freestyle team. “This is fun,
giving me a chance to perfection my technique”, he said and took off to
another 360° on the large 6 m long box. A jump onto the mats and then
again the new rail, a 6 m long double bar, is approached.
The rail track is 30 m in length and primarily serves the purpose to
entertain freestyle skiers to have loads of fun during summer. The
combination with the VIKING water jump near the lake Luegsteinsee in
Oberaudorf is very practical. Railing in the morning hours at the
Hocheck and waterjumping in the afternoon at the lake – this is the
daily routine of Alex from Austria, Niederndorf. “And not only on
weekends, but every day, because the holidays are around the corner, and
then it’s fun in the sun”.
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