Davos, Switzerland

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Davos summary

Davos is a skiers town with 59 lifts. The top lift is at 2844 meters (2 mountain trains, 12 cable cars, 11 chair lifts, 26 T-bars and 4 children's Pomas) on 6 mountains (2 west facing, 2 south facing, 2 skiable on all faces, it being possible to stay in the sun all day). There are 12 marked alpine walking trails at Davos, 1 avalanche training center, 4 fun parks, 4 sled runs, 30 on-piste restaurants, 1 natural ice skating rink (free and free ice skates supplied), 2 commercial ice rinks (1 inside 1 outside), 2 train stations: Dorf and Platz Dorf being 100 meters from Parsenn - biggest pisted skiable vertical drop at 1900m. The biggest off-piste vertical drop at Davos is 2200m. The longest marked piste is 15 km, longest off-piste: 24km. There are 13 marked but unprepared and uncontrolled off-piste runs, 140 off-piste tours of various difficulties from advanced to expert. The regional day pass includes all mountains and all buses in Davos and Klosters and trains between Kublis and Glaris. The most advanced skiing is off-piste with a few day tours without walking and unlimited non-walking powder skiing between pistes and resorts; a guide is essential. Davos/Klosters has 3 in-town beginner areas and several in-tree runs which are open in the worst weather making it skiable every day of the season. The trail/piste maps are too big to be displayed with only the main ski area of Parsenn/Gotchna listed. Night skiing is available every Friday evening on Parsenn from 7pm until 10pm.

Resorts close to Davos include: Klosters (5 km), Arosa (12 km), Fideris - Fideriser Heuberge (15 km), St. Peter - Pagig (15 km), St. Antönien (18 km),

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