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Saas Fee / Lift system

Saas Fee's lift system is not the resort’s strong point, but it does carry you to great heights over considerable distances.
 

Saas Fee

Cable cars4
Funiculars1
Gondolas3
Total chair lifts2
Surface lifts13
Rides per hour22,690
Saas Fee's 22-lift system is not the resort’s strongest suit, though it’s by no means bad. As with neighbouring Zermatt, it’s easy to grumble about the duration of some of the lifts, when they are in fact carrying you to great heights over a considerable distance. But unlike Zermatt, the infrastructure hasn’t benefited from recent major investment: Saas Fee’s last big installation in the main ski area was the Alpin Express jumbo gondola in 1991 (stage 2 in 1994), which not only shifts people quickly from base to 3,000m (with one cabin change) but is closer to much of the village than the main base area.

The tunnel-bound funicular, the speedy Metro Alpin, which completes the trip from 3,000m Felskinn to 3,500m Allalin, has an improbable guide’s request stop, the ‘Metro-Window’ halfway up, where parties can exit through an access tunnel to emerge through the rock face onto the blinding brightness of the Hohlaub glacier. Prevailing snow and ice conditions determine how sporting this exit is at any given time. The resort’s top lifts, high on the glacier, are inevitably T-bars - drag lifts are often the only feasible installation on moving glacier ice.

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