Ski in Davos

Ski Davos - Ski Resort and Snow Summary

Davos (Rega Pass Area), Switzerland (1110m to 2840m)

The centre of one of Switzerland's largest, oldest and best known ski areas. A large town, split in to two (Davos Dorf and Davos Platz), year round tourism/conference centre, world class facilities. Davos has for centuries been a major health centre and today has a hospital and three clinics, four of them specifically for children.

Sponsored Links	Davos Ski Facts Expert Skiers Intermediate Skiers Beginners Snowboarding Snow Apres-ski    34 Black Runs    47 Red Runs    31 Blue Runs 320km Downhill Pistes 75km Cross Country Trails 38 Ski Lifts 1730m Max Vertical 2840m Highest Lift 1560m Resort Altitude 1110m Lowest Piste
Davos in brief Davos Ski Resort is:- Excellent for Expert Skiers. Excellent for Intermediate Skiers. Good for Beginners. Excellent for Snowboarding. Opened : 20 November 2009 Closes : 18 April 2010 Opening subject to Snow Conditions.	Full Page Map of Davos

The Swiss ski resort of Davos is part of the Rega Pass Area Ski Area and has direct access to 320km of downhill skiing, with 110 individual pistes, served by 38 ski lifts. In addition to the skiing in Davos itself (320km of pisted ski runs), the appropriate ski Lift Pass will allow you to ski or snowboard in the other Rega Pass Area ski resort of Klosters. Davos is directly linked by Ski Lift to the ski areas of Klosters.

The ski resort itself is above 1500m, so skiing or boarding back to the resort is usually possible. With pistes above 2500 metres, skiing and snowboarding is assured throughout the season.

Snowmaking :- Davos is able to augment natural snow, on 15km of ski runs,.

Ski Lift Capacity :- The 38 Ski Lifts of Davos are able to uplift 64,400 skiers / snowboarders per hour.

There are two airports within two hours drive, so ski weekends, snowboard breaks and short ski holidays to Davos are perfectly feasible.

Skiing in Davos

If you want more than just 'vital statistics' to prove a ski resort takes its sports seriously, then consider that Davos opened Switzerland's first Sport high school in 1997. There top young athletes can study for academic excellence and sporting brilliance simultaneously, in disciplines including skiing, ice hockey, figure skating, snowboarding and golf.

The 310km (190 miles) of ski trails above Davos are divided in to six areas (Parsenn, Pischa, Jakobshorn, Rinerhorn, Madrisa and Gotschna), some of them lift-linked. The Parsenn area is the largest and most popular of the ski sectors. It is lift-linked to the neighbouring resort of Klosters, a traditional favourite of the British royal family. On the other side of town there are more ways up the Jakobshorn, the resort's fun mountain most popular with 'boarders. At the bottom of the mountain snowmaking covers the Bolgen nursery slopes.

Most of the ski areas are reached by funiculars or cable cars with the vast majority of the skiing being above the treeline at 1800m. Many of the trails are red and blue but experts will find several off-piste routes to entertain, including an 12km (7 1/2 mile) descent to Kublis and the chance of skiing over to Arosa in the footsteps (or should that be ski tracks) of Sherlock Holmes' creator over a century ago. On-piste blacks are unusually on the lower sections of the mountain, through the forests, as they are steeper at the bottom than the top.

Cross country skiers are also well catered for with 75km (47 miles) of trails. Live pictures (updated hourly) from resort cams, as well as official snow depth reports and forecasts are available on Davos's web site.

Snowboarding in Davos

One of the world's leading snowboarding destinations, with three snowboarding schools, five snowboarding hotels and four fun parks, Davos has held the Snowboarding World Championships recently and stages World Pro Tour events. It has joined in the Top Snowboard Resorts Club with Ischgl, Madonna di Campiglio and Val d'Isere and offers classes in snowboarding at Switzerland's first Sports High School.

The best boarding area up on the mountain is on the Jakobshorn where there is a funpark with plernty of rails and a quarterpipe. There are also two monster pippes (210m long, 5.5m high, 18m wide at a 17 degree pitch). There are more fun parks on Parsenn, Pischa, Madrisa and Rinerhorn plus a boardercross course on Parsenn.

Davos Aprés Ski

Davos offers evening entertainment to cater for virtually all tastes and can be very lively with around 20 night-spots open beyond midnight. They range from sophisticated piano bars such as that at the Central Sporthotel to hi-energy discothèques. The Cabanna Club 'power-disco' gives you the opportunity to burn off all that excess energy after a hard day on the slopes and if you don't fancy sleeping at all then the Express Bar is normally open through to 7am.

Also on offer are folklore evenings, theatre, cinema, concerts and sleigh rides. A new casino opened in the Hotel Europe in the town centre in 1995 where there is also a popular piano bar open into the small hours.

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