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52 SAAS-FEE GUIDES . WINTER 2019 Coloured screens replace analogue dashboard displays and automatic steering systems support THE EVOLUTION... the driver; in recent decades, snow groomers have undergone a lot of changes. To mark the 50th ...OF BEASTS anniversary of PistenBully, the industry leader, we took a look at some key milestones in their BEFORE 1950: FIRST ATTEMPTS development. In 1924, the first Winter Olympics took place in Chamonix. All of a sudden, skiing became a mainstream sport, and with its rise in Photos: Archive Kässbohrer Geländefahrzeug AG, Collection popularity came a growing demand for quality downhill slopes. Thomas Burgener Initially, simple manual rollers were used to compress the snow. But innovators soon replaced these with motorized tools. Text: Patrick Gasser 1961: SAAS-FEE'S MOTORIZED SKI LIFT Translation: Danielle Moore & Adam Spensley In the fledgling ski resort of Saas-Fee, transport facilities for skiers were still limited. On Längfluh, a tracked vehicle made by the Swiss manufacturer Rolba was used to transport people onto and around the glacier slopes. 1969: THE ORIGINAL PISTENBULLY In the year most commonly remembered for the first moon landing, Kässbohrer's design engineers test drove their first prototype. Hydrostatic drive and steering wheel control were integral parts of the mass production of the original PistenBully snow groomer. The petrol engine, however, was replaced with a diesel model.1972: BREAKTHROUGH IN SAPPOROSki resort operators from all over the world gradually beganto take notice of the southern German snow groomers. Thedevelopment team showed off six PistenBullys at the 1972Winter Olympic games in Sapporo, Japan, which drew furtherattention to the already growing brand.. 1984: A WINCH FOR STEEP SLOPES With the launch of the PistenBully 200 DW, the first vehicle made especially for grooming and maintaining extremely steep terrain arrived on the market. It was made possible by a special drum winch developed by the small western Swiss company, Plumettaz SA. The winch is used to support and secure the vehicle on extreme uphill and downhill slopes.
THE EVOLUTION 53 1999: CHANGING SHAPE The first iteration of the PistenBully 3000, which came on the market in the mid-1990s, was powered by a Detroit diesel engine. However, at the turn of the millennium, for the very first time, this was replaced by a Mercedes power unit. At the same time, more and more electronics began making their way into new PistenBullys designs, and angular shapes began to give way to curved lines.2007: PRECISION TECHNOLOGY FOR HALFPIPESEver since snowboarders first competed for Olympic medals inNagano's 1998 halfpipe contest, snowparks have been built to anever more professional standard. The curved walls, which standup to seven metres high, require intensive maintenance andgrooming. This photograph from 2007 shows a PistenBully 600using a special device called Pipemagican to undertake the task. 2011: SAVE SNOW AND DIESEL WITH SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY In 2011, the Snowsat slope and fleet management system came into place to aid drivers and reduce costs. Now, thanks to real- time satellite data displayed on-screen, the driver knows exactly how much snow there is and where. This allows them to use the snow, and in particular the costly artificially produced snow, more efficiently.2012: FROG-GREENOver the years, red had become the trademark colour for snowgroomers. But in 2012, the first frog-green snow groomers,which came from the southern German town of Laupheim,appeared. The colour change came with good reason:thanks to the new diesel-electric drive system, developersclaim that the PistenBully 600 E + emits twenty percent lessC02 and up to ninety-nine percent fewer soot particles. The400 horsepower Mercedes engine is bolstered by electricalpower from two generators. The downhill braking forceis converted into energy which propels the rotary cutter. 2018: NOT JUST FOR THE PROS Each autumn, the best freeskiers and snowboarders in the world come to train on the immaculately shaped jumps, and slick metal rails of Saas-Fee. But it is not only the pros whose expectations are rising – ski resorts worldwide are increasingly having to focus on features like funslopes and adventure runs. These developments have meant that snow groomers need to serve new, different roles. And the creators of the PistenBully 400 ParkPro 4F certainly kept that in mind as they developed its highly adjustable blades and tillers. Moreover, simplified, more ergonomic operation makes it easier for drivers with a trained eye and a good feel for it to build high-quality freestyle parks.
54 SAAS-FEE GUIDES . WINTER 2019 “Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.” Sharon Mills Draper (1948), American children's writer and professional educator Photo: Puzzle Media The sun rises over the Fee glacier.
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THE FREE-HEEL REVIVAL 57 Main: Pure Freedom: a day skiing backcountry at the Saas-Free Heel Festival. PROUD PARTNER AND OUTFITTER OF THE FREE-HEEL REVIVALThe Saas-Free Heel Festival returns for the second year. From 12th to 14th April 2019, the Hohsaas ski area above Saas-Grund will find itself in the hands of friends with a penchant for free-heel riding. Photos: Puzzle Media Text: Patrick Gasser Translation: Danielle Moore & Adam Spensley
58 SAAS-FEE GUIDES . WINTER 2019 LEFT PAGE Top: Experience \"Experienced skiers pick the fascination of up telemarking quickly, telemark skiing: plus snowboarders also tend to get into the swing courses in the Hohsaas ski resort of things quickly.\" allow beginners to experience the sport Adi Anthamatten, ski instructor and co- under professional organiser of the Saas-Free Heel Festival guidance.T elemark skiing is, indisputably, the Bottom: If you do original snow sport – as evidenced not have your own by the ancient ski collection held at telemark equipment, the Västerbotten Museum in Umeå, northern or if you would like to Sweden. Scientific analysis shows the oldest test out the latest kit, item on display to be 5,400 years old: a the Saas-Free Heel well-preserved Stone Age ski, which stands Festival is the place to at one and a half metres long. Four holes in the centre of the ski meant that a pair of do just that. leather shoes could be fixed in place. Other skis, several hundred years old, reach up to three metres in length. At the time, sealskins attached to the bases of the skis enabled the very first touring enthusiasts to travel uphill. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, skis suddenly went from being a means of transportation to being a piece of sporting kit, and the Norwegians were the early pioneers. No wonder, then, that the technique in which only the toes of the boot are fixed to the ski is named after the province in southern Norway where the art was perfected. Using the 'Telemark' technique, one Sondre Norheim won an 1868 alpine ski competition, despite having already covered most of the 200-kilometre journey to the contest on skis.
THE FREE-HEEL REVIVAL 59RIGHT PAGETop: Passionatetelemarker: AdiAnthamatten fromSaas-Almagell is co-organizer of the Saas-Free Heel Festival.Bottom: Amongstfellow enthusiasts: arelaxed evening at theWeissmies Hut.NO MAINSTREAM SPORT two days, the Hohsaas ski area offered TELEMARK SKIING BEYOND THENowadays, with the development of heel true aficionados of skiing's original form PISTESbinding systems, telemark skiing has the chance to meet and ski with like- The first edition of the Saas-Free Heelbecome increasingly uncommon. In the minded people. One particular highlight Festival proved a success. From the 12th1970s, however, telemarking experienced for seasoned telemarkers was a one-day and the 14th April 2019, the event will runa revival in the Rocky Mountains. Ski backcountry course. Led by a Saas-Fee for the second time. After a relaxed get-patrollers, in particular, came to appreciate Guides mountain guide, the telemarkers together on Friday evening, Saturday is timethe comfort and flexibility it afforded them in made use of prime spring conditions to explore the areas beyond the markedtheir daily work. However, the masses were for some backcountry ski touring. For pistes. Then in the evening, participantsnever quite persuaded. \"It's too difficult,\" is beginners, there was rental equipment will spend the night at Weissmies Hut. Forthe main complaint, or \"too cumbersome\" available, as well as a varied programme of those with less experience of telemarkaccording to others. But the majority of technical courses. \"Experienced skiers pick skiing, beginners courses will be offeredcritics have never gone as far as actually up telemarking quickly,\" says Anthamatten, on both Saturday and Sunday. In addition,freeing their heels from their heelpieces. who supervised the beginners' courses at Sunday will provide an extensive offeringWhen they do, they're usually quickly the first Saas-Free Heel Festival. \"It's really of bindings, boots and, of course, skisconverted: \"With telemarking, you're just nice to see a first-timer's passion suddenly to test, from a number of manufacturers.so much closer to the snow,\" says twenty- come alive,” plus snowboarders also tend Throughout the event, live musicians andseven-year-old Adi Anthamatten. The ski to get into the swing of things quickly. \"They DJs will provide the entertainment. All-in-all,instructor, who hails from Saas-Almagell, are not inhibited by alpine skiing techniques. the Saas-Free Heel Festival is the perfectcollaborated with the Saas-Fee Guides to So most of the time they manage the opportunity to discover the very originallaunch the Saas Valley's first telemarker- transition without any problems,\" explains form of skiing or to spend a weekend withexclusive event in the spring of 2018. For Anthamatten. others who already appreciate the sport as much as you do. GOOD TO KNOW Packages including a two-day lift pass and an overnight stay in the Weissmies Hut start at CHF 185.- Guided backcountry telemark tours with Saas-Fee Guides are available from CHF 95.-. Find further information and registration: facebook/saasfreeheel www.saasfeeguides.com [email protected] +41 27 957 44 64 Saas-Fee Guides AG Obere Dorfstrasse 53 3906 Saas-Fee Switzerland
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THE FREE-HEEL REVIVAL 61WIN EVERYTHING YOU NEEDFOR THE BACKCOUNTRY!In cooperation with Dakine, TSG, Salewa, Intersport Zurbriggen Saas-Grund, ISTA, and Vallesia ApothekeSaas-Fee, we are giving one lucky winner the chance to win this prize bundle worth CHF 2,100: → Dakine Poacher RAS 36L Rucksack → including Mammut Airbag System 3.0 → TSG Gravity Helmet → Mammut Barryvox S Avalanche Beacon → Salewa Razor Avalanche Shovel → Salewa Lightning 320 Pro Avalanche Probe → ISTA Discovery/ST1 Course with Saas-Fee Guides (Voucher for 1 participant) → Emergency first aid kit For your chance to win, just e-mail us at: [email protected] with the correct answer to the following question: In which year did Saas-Fee Guides mountain guides Aldo Lomatter and Beat Supersaxo ski the legendary northeast face of the Lenzspitze? Please include your contact details, including telephone, e-mail, and home address, in the e-mail. The winner will be announced on 8th January 2019 via the Saas-Fee Guides Facebook page.
62 SAAS-FEE GUIDES . WINTER 2019PUSHING THE LIMITS The northeast face of Lenzspitze rises 600 metres above the Hohbalm glacier. Beat Supersaxo and Aldo Lomatter were some of the first to descend it on skis back in 1976. Taking a quantum leap for the world of skiing, the pair grappled with the fifty-five-degree incline, taking more than 200 turns. Forty years on, Jérémie Heitz and Sam Anthamatten are pushing the limits of possibility on this legendary face once again. Photos: Tero Repo/Red Bull Content Pool, Puzzle Media Text: Patrick Gasser Translation: Danielle Moore & Adam Spensley
PUSHING THE LIMITS 63 Main: Sam Anthamatten follows Jérémie Heitz down the north face of the Lenzspitze.T he two bearded men in their mid-twenties could have and Lomatter, sixty-four. As young residents of Saas-Fee, the been mistaken for hunters. They appeared to be two had successfully completed their ski instructor exams searching for something on Hannig, above Saas-Fee. and were in the final stages of their mountain guide training. But for what – nobody was sure. In the spring of 1976, the They were looking for a challenge, and Lenzspitze would be pair’s search took them to places not even the chamois had it: they would climb the northeast face and then descend on strayed. The summit of Lenzspitze, then called Südlenz, stands skis, a feat which had only previously been taken on by South at 4,294 metres high. It was the imposing northeast face of Tyrolean Heini Holzerfrom and western Swiss Sylvain Saudan, the mountain that fascinated Supersaxo, now sixty-eight, who are now considered pioneers of steep skiing.
64 SAAS-FEE GUIDES . WINTER 2019 1976 WallBisoeterDescending the north face of the Lenzspitze - on skis! Saas-Fee – Critics call them 'kamikaze skiers,' while others marvel at these ‘skiers of the impossible’. They are the members of a small tribe of skiers, who in recent years have begun to take on descents that were previously the sole preserve of mountaineers armed with crampons, ice picks and ropes. These runs, taken on near-vertical walls covered with a stable layer of spring snow are the objects of desire for the avant-garde of this courageous new generation of ski alpinists. Sylvain Saudan, one of the first Valais locals to take on such spectacular descents on skis, has already attracted a lot of commotion in the past. His daring turns have earnt him many a headline. Now, he has inspired imitators in the Upper Valais. They certainly rival the 'master' when it comes to courage and guts, but far surpass him in modesty and sporting spirit. And so it came to be that early this summer, Beat Supersaxo and Aldo Lomatter accomplished a feat only achieved before them by Saudan, and Austria’s Heini Holzer, a skier who has since suffered a fatal accident on Piz Roseg: the young mountain guides and ski instructors from Saas-Fee skied the famous north face of the Lenspitze, a slope of fifty to fifty-five degrees!PREPARING FOR DESCENT their fitness in the gym and navigating the half hours. They took a short break. TheySupersaxo and Lomatter had been Allalin's north face. Even skiing from the ate. And, once again, they gathered theirpreparing for their project for months. \"We snowy summit of the Allalin, which towers strength for what would follow. \"We wereskied a lot of deep snow,\" recalls Lomatter, over Saas-Fee, was a pioneering feat. pretty quiet at that point\" Supersaxoand did numerous descents in \"truly awful recalls. The rope which had secured thesnow conditions\" to train their muscles. On 17th June 1976, the forecast looked two together on the ascent had to beTheir preparation also involved improving promising, and the conditions on the thrown down the wall. On the one hand, mountain were just right. The following it would save weight for the descent, but there was another reason: \"When we “Skiing the Lenzspitze saw the rope falling down the wall, we was one of the most knew – there is no way back now,\" says Aldo. They clicked in their skis and began frightening experiences of riding. At first, they skied one by one, the entire La Liste filming taking turns to navigate the slope with exhausting jump turns. In front of them lay process.\" a fifty-degree slope descending for more than 600 vertical metres. \"The first part Jérémie Heitz, professional freerider was difficult,\" Supersaxo recalls. \"But then it started to feel better and better,\" Over day, Lomatter and Supersaxo set off for 200 turns later, the two finally reached the Mischabel Hut, reaching the then- the foot of the wall. Their descent then much-greater Hohbalm Glacier via Hannig. followed the Hohbalm Glacier, traversing There, they clicked into their more-than- old avalanche deposits before ending on two-metre-long skis to skin up to the the terrace of the Schäferstube restaurant hut. That evening, Lomatter tells us, he in Saas-Fee. By half past eleven in the nervously filed the edges of his skis once morning, they had emptied their first more in preparation for the morning ahead. steins of beer. NO WAY BACK The following morning, they reached the peak of the Lenzspitze in just two and a
LEFT PAGE THE NEXT BREAKTHROUGH PUSHING THE LIMITS 65Bottom: \"I never For a long time after, the face was left dormant. Butpush myself all the in recent years, skis have evolved getting ever- guide. To avoid any nasty surprises, meticulousway to the limit.\" shorter, and ever-wider. New equipment has made preparation goes into each of his impossibly briefJérémie Heitz on a steep skiing more accessible, and, today, the wall is runs. Heitz and his thirty-two-year-old companionvisit to the Saas-Fee regularly skied when conditions are good in June. Anthamatten, a professional freerider and ZermattGuides office. Climbers on the Lenzspitze mountain have now mountain guide, spent two years preparing to take become accustomed to seeing ski tracks on the on the Lenzspitze. They borrowed the single-engineRIGHT PAGE face. However, under the morning sun of the 8th aircraft of a colleague and took several survey flightsBottom: \"We June 2015, alpinists on the neighboring Nadelhorn from Sion, taking countless photos which they had towere looking for noticed a very different set of tracks on Lenzspitze: memorize. Come 8th June 2015 the conditions werea challenge.\" Beat something seemed to have carved two smooth lines finally right. The pair climbed to the summit and thenSupersaxo and into the surface of the snow. Each track revealed that descended the north face together. \"The conditionsAldo Lomatter no more than fifteen sweeping turns had been made. were just perfect,\" recalls Heitz. \"The snow was sowere some of the However, such a run down this face was, at the time, level, it was like being on a ski slope.\"first to traverse the inconceivable. To ski a fifty-degree slope on skis, hitting speedsLenzspitze on skis Jérémie Heitz and Sam Anthamatten, two Walliser usually reserved for motorway-driving, this pair mustback in 1976. skiers, had just skied this face unlike anyone before surely be fearless? But no, “Skiing the Lenzspitze them, reaching speeds of over a hundred kilometres was one of the most frightening experiences of the per hour, carving beautiful sweeping turns in the entire La Liste filming process,\" admits Heitz. He and morning sun. And this groundbreaking descent was Anthamatten have now compiled a new list, and top just one of the fifteen steep faces Heitz selected to of their agenda is to take on some 6,000-metre-high ride for his grand project, 'La Liste'. Heitz, once a peaks in the same way they tackled the original Liste. junior ski racer, still likes to put the pedal to the metal. Since such peaks can't be found in the Alps, the Despite exceeding speeds of 100 kilometres per pursuit is taking them to South and North America as hour, he never pushed himself to the absolute limit: well as the Himalayas. \"The long journeys and thin \"You can't. You have to be able to react quickly in high-altitude air are the biggest challenges we'll face case you hit a rock, or an icy patch without warning,\" on these tours,\" says Heitz. But that is precisely the says the twenty-eight-year-old son of a mountain appeal for the two Walliser freeriders: finding out exactly what's possible.Now... ...then.
66 SAAS-FEE GUIDES . WINTER 2019 COLD SMOKE Canadian powder is every freerider's dream. In an uninhabited part of the Rocky Mountains, Saas- Grund-born mountain guide Danny Stoffel oversees an area as big as the canton of Valais. His base, the luxury resort situated in the heart of this wilderness, is considered the world's best heliski lodge. Photos: Canadian Mountain Holidays (CMH) Text: Patrick Gasser Translation: Danielle Moore & Adam SpensleyF or skiers from all over the province, the total amount of fresh as CMH, launched the first commercial world, the Canadian Rocky snowfall breaks the ten-metre mark heli-ski tour. To this day, the CMH name Mountains provide the perfect almost every winter. is still synonymous with boundlessconditions – as humid air masses adventure. Fifty-five-year-old Stoffel,from the Pacific meet the cold polar OVER FIFTY YEARS IN THE a Saas-Fee Guide mountain guide inair, they generate masses of snow so BUSINESS summer, works for this world-leadinglight that the Canadians call it 'cold Due to the volume and quality of the heliskiing operation throughout winter.smoke.' This weather is typical of snow, British Columbia is considered In fact, he has been spending hisBritish Columbia, a western Canadian a mecca for freeriders. To reach the winters in Canada since 1985. Fromprovince about three times the size best runs in this sprawling wilderness November through May, he overseesof Germany. Just five million people though, you need a helicopter. Austrian activities at the Valemount Lodge andlive in the region, which stretches expatriate Hans Gmoser sensed the guides guests through the Cariboofrom the US border more than 2,000 business potential in using a helicopter Mountains. \"Long, intense days aside,kilometres further north, to the as an airborne ski lift as early as the it really is a dream job,\" says Stoffel.Yukon Territory. In many parts of the 1950s. In 1965, Gmoser's company,mountain ranges that run through the Canadian Mountain Holidays, known
INTERNATIONAL 67INTERNATIONAL Main: Powder snow so light that the Canadians call it 'cold smoke' is pretty much guaranteed in the Cariboo Mountains of British Columbia.
68 SAAS-FEE GUIDES . WINTER 2019BUSINESS IS BOOMINGThe ski area accessible to Valemount Lodge guests and theirguides is larger than the entire canton of Valais. There are morethan 500 runs on offer, ranging from open alpine slopes andglacier runs to the legendary tree skiing. And for guests, theexperience goes far beyond the world’s best snow: a team of upto sixteen employees, from cooks to massage therapists, are atthe disposal of groups of up to ten guests. \"We do the hard workfor you from the very start. We begin by arranging your arrival bycharter plane from Calgary airport to the nearby private airfield.From there, our helicopter picks up guests and takes them to thelodge,\" says Stoffel. What’s more, the secluded lodge itself has alot to offer, with a whirlpool, sauna, gym, in-house shop, and bar. Itall adds up – Valemount Lodge has come to be known as the bestheliski lodge in the world.Of course, this all comes at a price. A week's stay at Valemount FROM THE LODGE TO THE BACKCOUNTRYLodge costs around 22,000 Swiss francs per person. For the On a typical heliski day, the action starts early. Guests might startmost part, it houses wealthy entrepreneurs and celebrities either their day with a warm-up at the lodge, but mountain guides willfrom the USA or Europe, many of whom rent out the whole lodge be out early taking snow profiles and reviewing weather reportsfor their friends. Stoffel doesn't give away much in terms of who for the latest data. Avalanche bulletins like we've come to expectcomes and goes from the lodge though, because \"discretion and in Switzerland do not exist in the Cariboo Mountains. Instead, theanonymity are hugely valued by our guests.\" Despite the steep responsibility lies with mountain guides like Stoffel. \"Every day,prices, the heli-skiing business is booming. So much so that the we have to redefine and specify exactly what is feasible underValemount Lodge has been operating without advertising for prevailing snow and weather conditions. But there’s an abundanceover ten years now. Booking enquiries from Europe are handled of line options,\" he explains. Once they have worked it all out, theexclusively via online platform Powderfinder. private Bell 212 helicopter arrives to collect you from your lodge and take you to one of over 500 potential landing sites in theBy early summer this year, the Valemount Lodge was already pristine, empty wilderness. Your first descent in the virgin \"coldalmost fully booked for winter 2018/2019. \"The booking window smoke\" snow awaits. Accommodating up to twelve people, thefor winter 2019/2020 is already open and we're looking forward to helicopter acts as an airborne ski lift. With each run, the guests andreceiving many more enquiries,\" says Stoffel. their guides ascend to an altitude of up to 1,600 metres, before
INTERNATIONAL 69dropping in for up to twenty different \"I still find working as apowder runs a day. mountain guide here in the valley just as much fun as I didSUMMER IN THE SAAS VALLEY when I was first starting out.\"With more than three decades of localexperience under his belt, Stoffel has Danny Stoffel,earned the trust of the lodge’s affluent mountain guide and heli-ski guideclientele, and contributed significantly tothe development of CMH. Nevertheless,the guide from Saas-Grund still spends hissummers in the Saas Valley with Americanwife Lindsey: \"I still find working as amountain guide here in the valley just asmuch fun as I did when I was first startingout.\" LEFT PAGE Top: The Valemount Lodge's private helicopter carries up to twelve guests to more than 500 potential runs found in an area as big as the canton of Valais. Bottom: For Danny Stoffel, the mountain guide from Saas-Grund, such descents have been part of everyday life for over thirty years now. RIGHT PAGE Top: It is considered the very best heliski lodge in the world. One week at Valemount Lodge will set you back around 22,000 Swiss francs per person. Bottom: The options are endless: from open alpine terrain to forested trails opening out onto glacier slopes. Anything is possible depending on the weather and snow conditions.
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