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There’s nothing like a little snow and ice to add a spot of jeopardy to your morning dog walk. My own inelegant anxious totter in the slush is bad enough when I’m alone, so adding my small but feisty and often overzealous Manchester terrier, Arty, into the mix was only ever going to be disastrous when we spent a few days in Morzine, just ahead of the ski area opening in early December.
To reach the top of the Waldspritz sledding run above the village of Grindelwald in the Swiss Alps, I hiked 90 minutes into the backcountry, dragging a small runnered sled by a rope to roughly 7,400 feet.
There is nothing tame about this pasttime, where participants rocket down steep, mileslong slopes, sometimes at night
There is nothing tame about sledding in Switzerland, where participants rocket down steep, miles-long slopes, sometimes at night.
The attraction of the race is immense. At the moment it counts as one of the most famous mountain marathon. Route: Interlaken - Lauterbrunnen - Wengen - Eigergletscher - Kleine Scheidegg.