Unterbäch - Eischoll
Unterbäch - Eischoll is a ski destination in Valais with 37 km of mapped pistes and 11 lifts, between 1'232 m and 2'432 m. Mostly blue and red, 5 km black. Nearby: Bürchen, Eischoll, Raron, Unterbäch.
Rank Unterbäch - Eischoll against every ski area near Bern for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow, weekend forecast and day pass
Snow at the nearest SLF station
Snow depth 1 cm, no new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Chiematte (2'205 m), 13.2 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station MUN2. This is the nearest comparable station, not the ski area's own pistes. Fetched .
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 3°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 3°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Bürchen (1'402 m, 3.3 km from the ski area), with the temperature at the ski area's mid-mountain, averaged over 09:00–16:00. Fetched .
Adult day pass
CHF 49 for . The operator’s published tariff for the season. The coming weekend has no price yet, so this is the day pass for a Saturday in January.
Source: unterbaech.ch, “Skipass ab Unterbäch 1 Tag, Erwachsene (ab 16), gültig in Unterbäch und Eischoll”, read .
For the size: the area maps 37 km of pistes and 1'200 m of vertical, and areas like that charged about CHF 60 for . This pass is 18% less.
Skiboard’s comparison, a curve through the 141 day passes it read for that day; the km are what OpenStreetMap maps, which an operator’s own total can exceed. It says nothing about which lifts run on the day.
Day-pass prices this weekend at every Swiss ski area
Written into this page when it was last built. The live ranking uses the newest values.
Your trip
On the Magic Pass: Magic Pass areas this weekend
Parking at Unterbäch - Eischoll
6 car parks by the lifts
OpenStreetMap maps these 6 car parks by the lifts of Unterbäch - Eischoll, the biggest first.
- Parkhaus Multi-storey car park · paid · 90 m from the Sesselbahn Unterbäch - Brandalp · piste 90 m away · Map
- Car park paid · 120 m from the Übungslift Dorf · piste 120 m away · Map
- Parkplatz Luftseilbahnen Car park · paid · by the Luftseilbahn Raron – Eischoll · Map
- LRU Car park · 40 m from the Luftseilbahn Raron – Eischoll · Map
- Car park free · 320 m from the Sesselbahn Unterbäch - Brandalp · piste 100 m away · Map
- Car park 300 m from the Luftseilbahn Raron - Unterbäch · Map
Distances are in a straight line to the bottom station of the nearest lift. Fees change: check with the car park before you go.
Car parks from OpenStreetMap, read 30 Oct 2026 (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). A car park missing? Fix the map
Travel time from Swiss cities
| From | Car | Train |
|---|---|---|
| Bern | 1h 30 | 1h 16Raron, Turtig · 1 change |
| Lausanne | 1h 43 | 1h 58Raron · 1 change |
| Lucerne | 1h 46 | 2h 23Raron, Turtig · 2 changes |
| Zug | 2h 06 | 2h 51Raron, Turtig · 3 changes |
| Geneva | 2h 18 | 2h 41Raron · 1 change |
| Geneva Airport | 2h 21 | 2h 51Raron · 1 change |
| Zürich | 2h 29 | 2h 18Raron · 1 change |
| Basel | 2h 37 | 2h 25Raron, Turtig · 2 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 2h 37 | 2h 37Raron, Turtig · 1 change |
| Chur | 2h 42 | 3h 45Raron, Turtig · 4 changes |
| Winterthur | 2h 48 | 2h 48Raron · 2 changes |
| St. Gallen | 3h 11 | 3h 27Raron · 4 changes |
Train: the timetable’s fastest connection leaving the city’s station between 06:30 and 09:30 on Sat 16 Jan 2027, to the valley station of the area’s lowest lift, with the walk from the last stop. Car: an estimate from coordinates, not live traffic. Check your trip on sbb.ch before you go.
Plan your trip
Practical links for the trip. They do not affect the ranking.
- Stay in Unterbäch Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 37 km
- Blue pistes
- 21 km
- Red pistes
- 11 km
- Black pistes
- 5 km
- Lifts
- 11
- Top station
- 2'432 m
- Base
- 1'232 m
- Vertical
- 1'200 m
- Longest mapped run
- 7.4 km, from 2'432 m down to 1'408 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 4
- Canton
- Valais
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Unterbäch - Eischoll are
Blue and black: gentler than most. Red: typical.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 14 · 17.5 km | 13 % | 28 % | gentler than most |
| Red | 8 · 8.6 km | 39 % | 38 % | typical |
| Black | 6 · 4.0 km | 46 % | 51 % | gentler than most |
The steepest 100 m: 56 % on Solihang (black).
Long descents without flat stretches 3
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 28 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Unterbäch - Eischoll (30.0 km) on swisstopo’s terrain model: the steepest 100 m of each, against every Swiss piste of the same colour.
Measured along the line OpenStreetMap draws, on terrain without snow: snow and grooming soften steps, and a piste can run beside its line. A gradient of 100 % is 45°. Colours as OpenStreetMap maps them, which can differ from the lift company’s piste map: check it before you go.
Piste lines from OpenStreetMap, read 30 Oct 2026 (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); terrain: swissALTI3D © swisstopo. A piste wrong or missing? Fix the map
Mountain restaurants in Unterbäch - Eischoll
OpenStreetMap maps 4 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Unterbäch - Eischoll, highest first.
- Bergrestaurant Ginals Restaurant · about 1'990 m · Map
- Hotel Alpenrösli Restaurant · about 1'590 m · Map
- Egga Restaurant · about 1'540 m · Map
- Restaurant Schwarzhorn Restaurant · about 1'210 m · Map
Opening times change with the season and the snow: check with the restaurant or the lift company before you go.
From OpenStreetMap, read 25 Oct 2026 (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). A place missing or closed? Fix the map
Ski schools at Unterbäch - Eischoll
| School | Private lesson | Group lesson at the weekend |
|---|---|---|
| Skischule Unterbäch | CHF 130 for two hours | weekdays only |
Every price and time
One ski school publishes its prices for Unterbäch - Eischoll. What it charges for group and private lessons, and when its group lessons run:
- Skischule Unterbäch Swiss Ski School
- Group lessons
- children CHF 60 per half-day (2.5 h), CHF 210 for five half-days; from age 3; groups of up to 10
- Private lessons
- CHF 70 per hour, CHF 130 for two hours, CHF 300 for a day; for one person
- Times
- children’s group lessons Monday to Friday, 09:30–12:00; group lessons on weekdays only
Prices as the schools publish them, the low-season price where they vary; a lift ticket and rental are not included. Skiboard sells no lessons and earns nothing from a booking. Group or private lesson, and what ski schools charge across Switzerland
About Unterbäch - Eischoll
Ski areas near Unterbäch - Eischoll
How popular Unterbäch - Eischoll is
Sportbahnen Unterbäch AG counted 33'318 winter first entries (“Skier days Winter / Ersteintritte Sommer / Total Eintritte”) in fiscal year 2025/26.
How many ski here
Sportbahnen Unterbäch AG counted 33'318 winter first entries (“Skier days Winter / Ersteintritte Sommer / Total Eintritte”) in fiscal year 2025/26. Annual report 2025/26
Each of the twenty areas Seilbahnen Schweiz counts had at least 411'000 skier days in winter 2025/26.
A skier day or first entry is one person on the lifts for one day, whatever the ticket. Skiboard adds no score of its own: the counts are what Seilbahnen Schweiz and the lift companies publish, the placings are polls run by others. Searches and social-media posts follow the news more than skiers, so they are left out.
Unterbäch - Eischoll in numbers
65 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Unterbäch and Eischoll, where the area’s lifts start: the federal statistics, and what the lift company publishes.
Hotels
The Federal Statistical Office publishes no hotel figures for Unterbäch and Eischoll: it leaves out communes with few hotels.
Homes
65 % of the 1'262 homes in Unterbäch and Eischoll are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Above 20 %, the Second Homes Act allows no new second homes there, with narrow exceptions.
Lifts
Sportbahnen Unterbäch AG, fiscal year 2025/26: CHF 763'575 revenue and EBITDA CHF -287'501. Annual report 2025/26
Sportbahnen Eischoll Augstbordregion AG, fiscal year 2025/26: CHF 463'097 revenue, CHF 339'332 transport revenue and EBITDA CHF 30'918. Annual report 2025/26
5 installations with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 2017 (Eischoll - Striggen); half of them date from 1993 or earlier.
The 5 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eischoll - Striggen | chairlift | 2017 | – | – | Sportbahnen Eischoll Augstbordregion AG |
| Raron - Unterbäch | cable car | 2000 | 2'138 m | 587 m | – |
| Brand - Breitensteg | chairlift | 1993 | 1'578 m | 155 m | Sportbahnen Unterbäch AG |
| Unterbäch - Brand | chairlift | 1985 | 130 m | 365 m | Sportbahnen Unterbäch AG |
| Raron - Eischoll | cable car | 1961 | 1'758 m | 574 m | Sportbahnen Eischoll Augstbordregion AG |
Commune figures count every hotel guest, not only skiers, and holiday flats are not in the hotel statistics. A licence year is when the installation’s current federal licence starts: usually the year it opened, sometimes a renewal.
Sources: Federal Office for Spatial Development, housing inventory · Federal Office of Transport, cable cars with a federal licence
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Catalog facts from OpenSkiMap / OpenStreetMap (ODbL). Where an SLF station is nearby, the app shows its measured snow, and the day-pass price is read from the operator’s own shop or tariff; for opening status, check the operator.
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