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Salzgäb at Aletsch Arena

Freeride · 463 m long with 158 m of vertical, averaging 19° and 27° at its steepest, facing S.

27°steepest 50 m
19°average pitch
463 mlength
158 mvertical
2137 mtop elevation
Sfaces

Snow and sun

Salzgäb is equator-facing: the sunniest aspect, softens earliest and suffers most in warm spells.

Grooming: backcountry. Ungroomed, off-piste character.

How to get to Salzgäb

Lifts that reach the top: Hohfluh (skiing novice terrain to get there); Golmenegg (skiing novice terrain to get there); Gletscherbahn Moosfluh (skiing novice terrain to get there); Ried Mörel - Riederalp (skiing novice terrain to get there); Blausee (skiing easy terrain to get there); Riederfurka (skiing easy terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 101 minutes, freeride skiing needed):

  1. Ride Mörel - Ried Mörel
  2. Ride Ried Mörel - Riederalp
  3. Hike Winterwanderweg Moosfluh–Riederalp (easy)
  4. Hike unnamed easy hike path (easy)
  5. Ski Salzgäb (freeride)

Where it ends

Joins Scheene Bodu. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Golmenegg (1 min), unnamed platter (2 min), Gletscherbahn Moosfluh (2 min).

See Salzgäb on the 3D mapAll runs at Aletsch Arena
Measured from OpenStreetMap geometry and elevation via OpenSkiMap (ODbL). Times are rough. Grades, grooming and openings change day to day — check the resort's own reports.