This centuries-old, Christmas- card village at 6,000 feet, was reached by donkey until the mid 20th century. Because of those donkey travelers, in 2006 Saas Fee celebrated 125 years of tourism!
Completely surrounded by mountains, the strength of Nature is in your face, exemplified by snow covered peaks and massive glacier s; reasons the first road from the valley wasn't until the 1950's. Today the village still peers down the Saaser Valley. Sunday mornings local women still attend church in native dress while men tend their sheep in centuries-old stilted barns. The encroaching Fee Glacier is so overwhelming one can almost reach out and touch it from your hotel balcony.
Saas Fee with no cars is a terrific resort for families and now those nine and under ski for free. By European stand ards, Saas Fee's terrain is more compact than other resorts so ski passes can now include the lower S aas Valley areas. With those 18 runs the area increases by a third totaling 36 lifts and 90 miles of trails. The resort's on-going effort to eliminate lift lines, for 05-06 they added a new eight-seater chair on the Kreuzboden-Hohsaas and a quad on the Langfluh. Saas Fee, with three freestyle parks, is reputed to have the best snow boarding and a dozen mountain restaurants to please anyone's culinary palette. With six day passes you can ski one day in Zermatt . Saas Fee is not some pip-squeak place for the faint-hearted: these pistes are where Pirmin Zurbriggen, former World and Olympic champion, learned his trade! |
