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Off to Zell Am See at the end of the month with the family. I won't be taking a bike but have been given the green light for a day riding. Has anyone got any advice or recomendations for riding in the area. I only have the one day, so want to get the most out of it. Is a guide the best plan or are the trails all nicely marked and easy to find?
Also need a bike, so good hire shops, worth getting an ebike?
Staying near the base of the Schmittenhoebahn cable car if that helps.
There used to be a brilliant bike park and hire centre at Leogang. Hire a downhill monster and get a cable car day pass.
Anyone else with any advice?
I'm more of a mincer / trails rider than a big rig DH gnar hitter...
I snowboard out of Zell am See and have had the occasional spin round the lake which is about 30-40 min ride.
However you need to go to the next vally over and Saalbach-Hinterglemm where you can hire bikes and I would recommend the joker card which allows you a liftpass to loop around the vally and includes the lift back out of Leogang.
Great day out 🙂
That does look like a big day out, cheers for the info.
Don't forget to mention that you need the brakes 'the wrong way round' from our European cousins.
Good point stern, made that mistake before.
I'll be there 28th May to 6th June if you want to hook up.
We mainly session the DH lines on DH bikes but we'll be doing a day on the Capras.
Bike n Soul will sort you out a good bike or I might be able to lend you a medium Heckler (usual break it / fix it rules!).
A good loop if you don't want to do the big 5 is start at Saalbach, up Schattberg Xpress, do X line if you like rough stuff, back up Xpress and do Hackelberg trail to Hinterglemm, Z line followed by Blue & Pro line at Hinterglemm, then roll down to Saalbach and do Milkaline a few times. Could do that in a morning if you pushed it.
For some reason I was thinking about this thread for some reason and it occurred to me that as it is still very early in the summer season when you go that it is with checking out the lift opening dates/hours for anywhere you might want an uplift.
For example it won't be possible to do the big 5 unless you rode up as well as down, which might be a bit of an ask! http://www.saalbach.com/en/summer/lift-company/prices-operating-hours.html
Well spotted Hammerite! I forgot about the later opening in S/H, it's the same every year.
Looks like it's Leogang start of the week and S/H towards the end.
A friend runs a rental and guiding operation not too far from there in Kitzühel: www.mountainedge.co.uk.
Rob's from Harrow, but don't hold that against him - he's lived out in Austria for 15 years or so, so is practically native.
Fewer Leogang gnarcore bikes, but there's still a few reasonable travel options. I worked round there for a while and a Five was perfectly adequate; an Alpine 160 would have been ideal. If you're out that way the Ehrenbach trail is worth a go.
Thanks guys, I knew someone on here would have the knowledge..
Colp, you are a Gent. I think I will have to wait till I get out there. I have to line up with my wife and kids and the Inlaws!
That sounds like a good circuit, and the hire options sound relatively straight forward.
But the lift times may put the anchors on things a bit, we were planning a bit of walking obv. the lifts would have been useful!
Jazz, Thanks also for the info, I'll look into that.
I spent a week in Zell Am Zee last August with my wife and 12 year old son. What we found was that while there were trails out of Zell Am Zee there wasn't really a good bike shop to hire a quality bike and there was no guiding that we could find.
So what we did instead was drive 20 minutes to Saalback Hinterglamm which is a mountain biking Mecca. There are tons of way marked trails round there, loads of ski lifts for uplift. Get your bike from Bike N Soul who couldn't have done more for us. They had a great range of bikes, we just rocked up but might be worth booking in advance as they do get really busy.
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My son and I ended up doing two days on the downhill runs. We'd never been to the alps before and never done proper downhill, but had an amazing time. The trails are all graded so you can start off easy till you get the hang of things. There's also loads of more XC type trails if that's what you want.
For the downhill find you feet with Panorama and Milka Line runs. Progress to Blue line, then Z Line. But whatever you do don't miss the cahnce to ride Hacklberg/Buchegg trail (10km 1000M drop) which is the most beautiful trail I have ever riden.