From the wheelchair to the cross-country ski run: the Lech Valley smoothes new ways
Popular sports on narrow trails:
Cross-country skiing is gaining more and more fans.
Many of them like moving on the snow and enjoying gorgeous landscape sceneries.
People with handicaps are also discovering this sport as ideal endurance training.
The Tyrolese Lech Valley, known for its surfaces and extensive trails, smoothes the way for this guests’ group too.
At present, the approx. 250 trail kilometres are measured and divided into difficulty levels.
All collected information gives wheelchair users moving on special toboggans precious information about trail profiles, parking facilities, service infrastructures as well as handicapped accessible hotels and boarding houses. Most of the trails are suited for winter sportsmen with handicaps, for cross-country ski beginners and hobby skiers (see pictures above). The excursion bus in the valley can be used at no charge. Wheelchair detective Harald Hörmann (picture bottom right) is testing together with Daniela Köck the trails, where people with or without handicaps can do some sport together. And for ambitious sportsmen there is - for the first time in Europe - the new Nordic Wisbi trail where you can test your own fitness level thanks to an electronic time measurement device.
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