Premiere for the new Kalkkögeltrail Stubai
Last updated on 03.09.2024
For more than three decades, the Schlickeralm Run has been successfully carried out with a view of the impressive backdrop of the Kalkkögel. On September 28, 2024, the SV Telfes sports club will now organize a run for the first time, which leads to the Dolomites of North Tyrol, as the Kalkkögel are often called. At the Kalkkögeltrail Stubai, there is a choice of a 42-kilometre marathon distance and an 18-kilometre route, which allows trail running beginners to gain their first competition experience. Both routes are designed as a circular route with start and finish in the centre of Telfes. Registrations, as well as the detailed program can be found under www.kalkkoegeltrail.at
In more than thirty years, the Stubai Valley has grown into an internationally popular destination for mountain runners and trail runners. The staging of extremely popular and successful events contributed to this. These include the Schlickeralm Run with World and European Mountain Running Championships and the internationally acclaimed Trail Running and Mountain Running World Championships 2023 in Innsbruck-Stubai. Trail runners are particularly attracted by the unique landscape in the Stubai, which offers trails between fields, mountains and the glacier.
Demand for trail running is satisfied
“Within the club, we have noticed that the demand for a run within the Kalkkögel is becoming stronger and stronger. Especially because people at the Trail Running World Championships saw that it works. At the same time, it has become increasingly difficult to keep up the number of participants in our Schlickeralm Run, a pure mountain run. After careful consideration, we decided with the SV Telfes as the organizing club, then to implement the Kalkkögel Trail,” describes Andreas Stern, OC boss of the new run.
“We have seen that the landscape of the Stubai Valley has a high attraction within the trail running scene and that we can also offer the existing paths to the running public. The Kalkkögel Trail also closes the circle of running events that will be opened in summer with the Stubai Ultratrail,” says Adrian Siller, chairman of the Stubai Tourism Association, adding the region’s commitment to trail runners.
The routes at a glance
The imposing Kalkkögel, also known as the “Dolomites of North Tyrol”, will form the backdrop for the new trail event in the Stubai Valley in the future. You can choose between the Kalkkögel Trail K42, i.e. a marathon distance, and the Kalkkögel Trail K18, which is suitable for getting started with trail running.
Among other things, the run will take place on the original route of the Schlickeralmlauf as well as some parts of the routes that were also covered at the 2023 Trail Running and Mountain Running World Championships in Innsbruck-Stubai.
Marathon and beginner distances
An encirclement of the Hoher Burgstall, one of the Seven Summits Stubai, as well as the summit of the Saile with a view over the entire Inn Valley make the Kalkkögeltrail K42 unparalleled. After almost 2,700 metres of ascent and descent, the adventure ends in the start and finish area in the centre of Telfes.
The Kalkkögeltrail K18 takes you up to the Schlick 2000 hiking centre to the Panorama Lake via varied trails. From there, the route leads with a view of the Dolomite-like mountain range on a rather challenging path to the aid station at the Pfarrachalm. After 940 metres of altitude have been mastered, the Hirtensteig, where concentration is once again required, leads back to Telfes in the Stubai Valley in a technically demanding way.
Children’s runs and charity runs are not to be missed
In the proven manner, children’s runs and a charity run will of course take place again in Telfes on the weekend of the Kalkkögel Trail. On the afternoon of September 28, the runs will be held in the center of Telfes, before the event ends in the evening at the running festival in Telfes with the prize distributions, a raffle and music.
Registration and further information at: www.kalkkoegeltrail.at
