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Oberer Spielboden at Saas-Balen

Advanced · 520 m long with 171 m of vertical, averaging 18° and 30° at its steepest, facing N.

30°steepest 50 m
18°average pitch
520 mlength
171 mvertical
2636 mtop elevation
Nfaces

Snow and sun

Oberer Spielboden is poleward-facing: least winter sun, holds cold powder longest, can stay firm or icy.

Grooming: classic.

How to get to Oberer Spielboden

Lifts that reach the top: Längfluh (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Längfluh Sessel (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Panoramalift (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Mittelallalin 4 (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Mittelallalin 5 (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Metro Alpin, Métro alpin (skiing intermediate terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 6 minutes, advanced skiing needed):

  1. Ride Spielbodenbahm
  2. Ride Längfluh
  3. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  4. Ski unnamed intermediate trail (intermediate)
  5. Ski Längfluh (intermediate)
  6. Ski Oberer Spielboden (advanced)

Where it ends

Joins unnamed intermediate trail, Spielboden. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Längfluh (1 min), Felskinn (7 min), Spielbodenbahm (7 min).

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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.