Mountain Coaster

The Coaster on the Egidi-Buckel

Preface

Due to the omission of the first waypoints we had more time than planned before, but our mobile phones could not use their full potential to plan further destinations due to the sometimes rather bad connection, so that the mountainman had to rush to our help. Due to the hero of Andreas Gabalier’s song, respectively his name idol Julian Bergemann, we quickly added the Rodel- und Freizeitparadies St.Englmar to our list, but due to another round on the Monte Coaster at Monte Kaolino the time was already very limited.

Rodel- und Freizeitparadies St.Englmar

Luckily, the Rodel- und Freizeitparadies St.Englmar didn’t finish at 6 p.m. and was still relatively well attended, so that a ride on the Alpine Coaster Bayerwald Coaster could still be done.

Bayerwald Coaster

The layout of the ride, which looks very serpentine from the outside, does not seem to be very exhilarating at first sight, but the ride builds up speed relatively fast. Thanks to several fast curve changes, the ride always feels fast before the big jump starts. One roundabout later, several smaller waves follow in wide curves before the ride comes to an end.

The Bayerwald Coaster was the last Wiegand ride of the day and a very entertaining one as well. A visit to the Egidi-Buckel in the near future will be worthwhile because next year the Rodel- und Freizeitparadies St.Englmar will be extended by a roller coaster made by Zierer.

Pictures Rodel- und Freizeitparadies St.Englmar

 

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Rodel- und Freizeitparadies St.Englmar

Monte Coaster (2015)

On the outskirts of the town of Hirschau is Monte Kaolino, a 120m high dump of kaolin-containing quartz sand, which was created from kaolin mining nearby. On the southern slope of the slag heap there has been a recreational area since the 1950s, which today offers a camping site, a swimming pool, a sand ski slope, the Alpine Coaster Monte Coaster and numerous smaller attractions.

When talking about the first drop par excellence on a roller coaster, the first descent of the Expedition GeForce from the Holiday Park certainly and relatively spontaneously comes to mind, but if you think of an extraordinary drop on an Alpine Coaster, you can hardly talk about the right drop at the beginning of most rides, unless you know the Monte Coaster.

Hardly climbed up the steep slope it goes directly down the steep curve and into some jumps. Under the now existing maximum speed we immediately go into the following helix and after some detours into the small forest. The ride is a bit more leisurely now, but the jumps don’t stop and after a few meters of distance there is another steep turn, similar to the first downhill of this ride. With a clearly existing gradient, the ride continues at full throttle to the end of the ride, which is crowned with a jump, where you have to brake, but don’t want to.

The Monte Coaster is without a question brilliant, but unfortunately it gets the short end of the stick compared to some of the larger rides like the Hasenhorn Coaster or the Trapper Slider from the German theme park Fort Fun Abenteuerland. The only thing missing here are some meters of track, because the rest, which the sand built exotic among the Alpine Coasters delivers, is first class and definitely worth a visit.

 

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Bavaria

Alpine Coaster on the Wasserkuppe

Ski- und Rodelarena Wasserkuppe

The Ski- und Rodelarena Wasserkuppe near Gersfeld is owned by the Wiegand family and, in addition to the prototype of the Alpine Coaster, offers two summer toboggan runs, a high ropes course and the Wie-Li transport cableway as well as another variant of the Wie-Hex, in which the course is not done in a lying position as in the Erlebniswelt Seilbahnen Thale, but rather resembles a small suspended coaster.

Hexenbesen

The ride on the Hexenbesen begins right after you have inserted the 2€ for the ride or scanned your card, with a small predrop into the lifthill. The first curves follow in which one swings out a little before it goes up a further lift hill, whereby the gondola swings a little strangely up and down. After two further curves the third lift hill is reached before the gondola goes up a small curve combination towards the end of the ride.

Rhönbob

After the obligatory programme has been completed, the highlight of the Ski- und Rodelarena Wasserkuppe follows, which can at best be described as Lightwater Valleys The Ultimate among the Alpine Coasters: The Rhönbob. Although its age and the status of the prototype, this is also due to trees falling onto the track from time to time, so that a consistent rattling could develop and a wildness that one looks for in vain on new-fangled Alpine Coasters. Despite its length of almost one kilometre, the track is driven through quite fast, which cannot be reduced so quickly even by the interesting braking system of the bobsleds. At the latest after crossing the Wie-Lis the wild part of the ride follows and thus one tight curve after the other until you leave the forest and enter the jumps. Shortly before the end of the ride there is a small jump, followed by a big jump and a tight right turn after which you descend at insane speed. Afterwards the unsuspecting passenger is released with a big grin in the direction of the lift.

The Rhönbob of the Ski- und Rodelarena Wasserkuppe surprised me very much, whereupon I immediately had to take a second ride to make sure what I had just experienced. It is definitely one of the better and wilder rides and should be ridden without question despite its sometimes unusual and quite brute riding style.

 

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Ski- und Rodelarena Wasserkuppe