A few weeks before we left on this trip we watched a couple travel videos by Rick Steves of PBS on Bavaria and Austria. In them he talked about summer luge rides in the Alps. We all were real interested in trying it if we could fit it in our travel. In Innsbruck, we searched the internet and asked the front desk person at our hotel about them to no avail. Nothing was coming up under luge, which is what Rick Steves called them. I finally found an article on the internet that referred to "sommerrodelbahn." Ahha! I searched under sommerrodelbahn and a bunch of sites jumped up on the computer screen. There were probably 15 of them all over the Alps. Sommerrodelbahns or summer toboggans are chutes or tracks on ski mountains that you ride
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