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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Maybe try Les Diablerets, or for something slightly different but still tobogganing I suppose try the Leysin Tobogganing park. It is good fun.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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there is a really great place to go taboganing in Austria! I went when I was younger and they had a whole slope dedicated to it in the evenings. I think it was called Alpbach! Hope it's still there! Happy sledging! 
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I went when I was younger and they had a whole slope dedicated to it in the evenings.
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I know that one! My son smashed his ankle there, toboganning into a fence. He says he was blinded by slush (that slope is in the village and the snow was very wet). On the plus side, he got very good treatment from the surgeons in Innsbruck. 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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gamer2471, The Zillertal valley has a number of toboggan runs, including the longest one (7km) on the Hainzenberg, see this
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There's a long toboggan run in Val Thorens I think, not that I've tried it - I've only skied there for one day.
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Try saariselkä in northern Finland. They have a 1.2 km long track with ski bus and chair lift to the top.
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In reply to Pam w: smashed ankle does not sounds good!! In fact thinking about it all the major injuries I have ever sustained have been from skiing or boarding. I wear a helmet now, even for sledging! I can't remember the run being slushy but it was years and years ago!
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I can't remember the run being slushy but it was years and years ago!
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It would depend on the weather. If it's the run I'm thinking of, it is right in the village - so it's ideal for evening sledging but the altitude is quite low. We were there in early January but the snow at that level was extremely slushy. In colder weather it would obviously be harder. I think toboganning is more dangerous than skiing!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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If the OP ONLY toboggans that makes a big difference - some slopes used in the evenings for toboganning, after the lifts shut, are not available for toboggans during the day.
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Switzerland takes tobogganing the most seriously of the alpine areas I've been to. Although I've not been, I believe that saas fee has a dedicated area for a number of non-skiing winter sports.
The sledge run in Zermatt which uses a couple of railway stations on the gornergrat as start/end points is pretty good (I've done this).
I was in Villard de Lans a couple of weeks ago, and they have a large 'parc de glisse' just outside the village which has a number of runs with banking etc. Not as much vertical as the Swiss runs I've done, which are often a couple of km at least and down summer tracks. Most are terrifying.
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You know it makes sense.
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Grindelwald has the longest sledge run in Switzerland at 15km down from the Faulhorn
Theres a 10km one at La Tzoumaz near Verbier apparently
Theres a fully floodlit one going from Preda - Bergün which has snow making facilities and apparently a chairlift to take you back to the top, you can also user the Glacier Express train (which I have been on) to get there well worth it for the stunning scenery
but so far as I can work out the Jungfrau region probably has the most sledge runs of any Swiss resort as well as the longest
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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Thankyou all for your replies... i think it serves to underline my suspicion that there really are no other resorts/areas that come close to the Jungfrau Region in terms of number and length of runs. After all you would not go to a resort to ski just 1 run day in day out.. same with tobogganing.
@ pjd .... Have you been to Seiseralm yourself ?
Whilst the length of those runs are not the longest (compared to being spoilt previosuly in the Jungfrau region) it does interest me... as scenery is also high on the agenda! so looks interesting as a possible alternative.. thankyou for that link.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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gamer2471, If you have a car then you would get to quite a few close together in Austria - including the 8km one at Hochwurzen near Schladming which I would recommend. But if not, then you may indeed struggle to beat Jungfrau region where you can get around by train/bus. Have you done the monster one down from Faulhorn?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Theres a 10km one at La Tzoumaz near Verbier apparently
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That toboggan run in fabulous, I've skied by it, but it goes my that same open air mountain hut we ate lunch at in Feb...plus, if I recall, there were a couple of variations and alternatives for the tobogganing in La Tzoumaz..
Plus there are some nice mountain walks in the snow there, not all super steep
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) as a base for our exploits all over the Jungfrau region - but we dont want things to go stale.. So the possiblity of alternative equally fantastic areas to add to our now annual trip are what we are searching for..
