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This is a list of summer toboggan installations worldwide, ... Pfingstegg Grindelwald, BE Slide 725 metres (2,379 ft) long, elevation 1,350 metres (4,430 ft).
Grindelwald - First; Grindelwald - Pfingstegg; Kandersteg - Allmenalp; Kandersteg - Sunnbüel ; Eisigbach - Eisigenalp; Unter dem Birg - Engstligenalp; Luftseilbahn Wengen-Männlichen: Wengen - Männlichen; Isenfluh - Sunnwald; Stechelberg - Mürren - Schilthorn; Bergbahn Lauterbrunnen–Mürren: Mürren-Lauterbrunnen; Central Switzerland
Grindelwald is a village and municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Berne.In addition to the village of Grindelwald, the municipality also includes the settlements of Alpiglen, Burglauenen, Grund, Itramen, Mühlebach, Schwendi, Tschingelberg and Wargistal.
The first form of summer toboggan was the alpine slide, which started in its present form in the 1970s. Josef Wiegand had envisioned the idea of creating a roller coaster ride for ski resorts that would take advantage of the topography of the land, rather than building a structure to create the elevation changes that traditional roller coasters required.
In 1970 the last landlords, the Kreutz family, sold the property to the construction company Adolf Braun, who transformed it, with the help of wildlife biologists, into a wildlife park. The park opened its doors in 1974. In 1979, a chair lift and two summer toboggan runs were added, one of which was roofed in 1989.
The Mettenberg (also spelled Mättenberg) is a mountain of the Bernese Alps, overlooking Grindelwald in the Bernese Oberland. It lies north of the Schreckhorn and forms a huge buttress of the Schreckhorn range. From Grindelwald, an aerial tramway goes as high as Pfingstegg (1,387 m), which is situated below the first cliffs of the mountain. [2]
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Toboggan is a portable roller coaster that was built by Chance Industries from 1969 to the mid-1970s. [1] The coaster features a small vehicle, holding two people, that climbs vertically inside a hollow steel tower then spirals back down around the same tower.