Trail map
Published by Brauneck- und Wallbergbahnen GmbH; this copy via Brauneck- und Wallbergbahnen GmbH. The current official map is at Brauneck- und Wallbergbahnen GmbH.
Routable 3D map
The whole lift and piste network of Brauneck is routable in the app: difficulty limits, live lift and piste status, alternative ways to the same place, and a 3D view of the terrain.
Open in SkiAllDayThe verdict
Brauneck is the steep, ungroomed side of Bavarian day skiing, an hour from Munich above Lenggries. Skiresort.de measures 30.7 km of piste, but only 3.5 km is graded easy; our own measurement finds 25.1 km at a 22% average gradient. The reward is real mogul terrain and a black run built for a 1980 World Cup slalom. The catch is that beginners have almost nowhere easy to go.1234
Goes well for
- A day trip from Munich: about an hour by car or by the Bayerische Regiobahn, with a free ski bus or the bundled MVV Skipass Brauneck covering the last mile
- Confident intermediate and advanced skiers who want steeper, rougher red and black terrain than most Bavarian day resorts offer, including a dedicated mogul piste and the Weltcup-Abfahrt
- Families who need dedicated children's terrain rather than open beginner pistes: three separate kids' ski areas and a flat-rate family day ticket
Goes badly for
- Beginners: only 3.5 km of the marketed 30.7 km of piste is graded easy, and our own routing measurement puts just 17% of the network within reach of someone who never leaves an easy run, the second-lowest share of the ten German resorts measured this way
- Late-season and spring skiing: no glacier, a top height of only 1,712 m, and just 28% of the piste network facing north, northeast or northwest, the lowest north-facing share of the ten German resorts in this dataset
- Cautious or nervous intermediates: most of the mountain is red-graded at a measured 22% average gradient, and forum reports describe long ungroomed and icy stretches even outside the black runs
Key facts
Every card opens. The headline number is the answer; underneath is how it was measured and where it came from.
Elevation 1,032m vertical · 680–1,712 m
| Village | 680 m3 |
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| Lowest piste | 680 m3 |
| Highest lift-served point | 1,712 m3 |
| Vertical drop | 1,032 m |
The operator's own piste map marks Lenggries at 680 m and the Latschenkopf, the highest point on the map, at 1,712 m; skiresort.de agrees on both. The Brauneck-Kabinenbahn's own valley station sits higher up the hillside, at 720 m per the company's technical specifications on German Wikipedia, and several aggregators round the base to 700 m. The Brauneck summit itself, at 1,556 m, is well below the Latschenkopf and is not the ski area's highest point; the Benediktenwand at 1,801 m is visible from the pistes but outside the ski area entirely.
Pistes 30.7km 25.1 km measured from the network
- Easy 3.5km 11%
- Intermediate 20.7km 67%
- Difficult 6.5km 21%
Marketed vs measuredSkiresort.de and skiresort.com agree on 30.7 km, split 3.5 km easy, 20.7 km intermediate and 6.5 km difficult; that is the figure used here, since the operator's own site does not publish a single total in running text. Several tourism aggregators, including bergfex and municipal listings, round the area to 34 km, a total we could not trace to a primary source, so it is not used. Our own measurement of the OpenStreetMap network finds 25.1 km of marked piste, about a fifth less than skiresort.de's figure, and only 17% of that network is reachable without leaving easy-graded terrain.
Lifts 15 3 types in the fleet
- T-bar 10
- Chairlift 4
- Gondola 1
The Brauneck-Kabinenbahn, an 85-cabin gondola opened in 1957, is the only way up from Lenggries; skiers based in Wegscheid instead ride the Milchhäuslexpress chairlift or one of the Draxlhang and Jaudenhang T-bars into the network. Ten of the fifteen lifts are T-bars, and our own measurement finds 32% of the resort's total climbing, weighted by vertical, is on surface lifts rather than chairs or the gondola.3
Season December – March winter season
| Winter season | mid-December – late March |
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| Lift hours | 08:15–16:30 |
Day pass EUR 53 adult, main season
| Adult | EUR 533 |
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| Youth | EUR 463 |
| Child | EUR 263 |
| Multi-resort passes | Alpen Plus multi-day (2 days up to 7-of-9 days) and season passes cover all four Alpen Plus areas: Brauneck, Sudelfeld, Spitzingsee-Tegernsee and Wallberg. Single-day, half-day and hourly tickets carry no Alpen Plus branding and are valid at Brauneck only. MVV Skipass Brauneck bundles a day ticket with return travel across the whole Munich transport network (MVV) plus the bus transfer to the valley station: 64.50 € adult, 59.50 € youth (15 and over), 31.80 € child (6 to 14), valid to 29 March 2026. The same ticket also covers Spitzingsee and Sudelfeld at their own prices. Family day ticket: both parents plus all their own children aged 6 to 15, a flat 129 €. Happy-Hour ticket, daily from 14:30: 27 € for adults, seniors and youths, 10 € for a child. Mittwochskracher: every Wednesday from 7 January 2026 (excluding Ash Wednesday), a flat 37 € for everyone from age 16 up, 26 € for a child. |
Tariffs for the 2025/26 winter, from the operator's own piste-map and price list dated October 2025; the operator had not published 2026/27 prices as of 30 August 2026. Youth is 16 to 18 and child 6 to 15. Seniors from 65 pay 50 € and students with a valid student ID pay 47 €, both between the adult and youth rates. A 3 € deposit for the reusable chip card is added to every ticket.
The mountain
These figures come from measuring the resort's actual piste and lift network rather than from its brochure. Measured from the SkiAllDay routing graph on 30 August 2026. Where the resort publishes a figure of its own, that figure is the one shown.
Piste km per lift km
1.04
Piste km opened by each kilometre of lift line. It measures how sparse the lift network is, not how good it is: a high figure means long runs off few lifts, so more skiing between rides but more traversing and more people funnelled onto each lift; a low one means dense lift service, quick laps and short waits, at the cost of repeating the same runs.
measuredLift minutes per ski hour
97 min
Time riding up for every hour spent descending, from the graph’s own traversal times.
measuredLongest continuous descent
4.3 km
The longest run of linked pistes that never rides a lift.
measuredReachable on easy runs only
17%
Share of piste a skier can reach from the base without ever descending something harder than an easy run.
measuredNorth-facing terrain
28%
Piste facing N, NE or NW, from the bearing of each descent. Shaded aspects hold snow longest.
measuredVertical on that descent
793 m
measuredUphill on surface lifts
32%
Share of climbing served by drag lifts and platters, weighted by vertical rather than by lift count.
measuredPiste above 2,500 m
0%
measuredMedian piste altitude
1,273 m
Half the piste length lies above this height and half below, weighted by length.
measuredMean piste gradient
22%
Length-weighted across every piste. Comparable between countries in a way that piste colour is not.
measuredPiste measured
25.1 km
measuredLift length measured
24.0 km
measuredHow steep is it, really
Piste colour is set by each resort under its own rules, so a red in one country is a blue in another. Measured gradient is comparable everywhere.
- 12% 0–10%
- 24% 10–20%
- 43% 20–30%
- 18% 30–40%
- 2% 40%+
Guide
Two valley bases feed one connected network on the slopes above Lenggries and Wegscheid. Lenggries has the Brauneck-Kabinenbahn, the only lift over 800 m of vertical; Wegscheid has the Milchhäuslexpress chairlift and four T-bars, and is where the resort's children's terrain sits.
Two ways in, one mountain
The Brauneck-Kabinenbahn, an 85-cabin gondola, is the only way up from Lenggries, climbing 800 m in 12 minutes to the Bergstation at 1,520 m. From Wegscheid, three kilometres away, skiers ride the Milchhäuslexpress six-seat chairlift or one of the Draxlhang and Jaudenhang T-bar pairs instead. Our own measurement finds the two sides link into a single connected network, not two separate ski areas sharing one ticket.52
Mostly red, and steeper than the map colour suggests
Skiresort.de splits the marketed 30.7 km as 3.5 km easy, 20.7 km intermediate and 6.5 km difficult, and our own measurement of the network puts the length-weighted average gradient at 22%. The three black-graded descents, the Weltcup-Abfahrt, the Garlandabfahrt and the Weltcuphang, take their names from the FIS World Cup slalom held here in 1980. One numbered piste on the operator's own map is named the Buckelweg, mogul path, rather than being an unofficial line skiers have nicknamed themselves.126
A reputation for staying rough
Brauneck's grooming does not flatten every red and black run the way many Bavarian resorts do. A schneehoehen.de reviewer named schnappi, writing in a 28 January 2015 review, described the Garland and the Milchhäusl piste as deliberately left bumpy and steep, and said the resort suits skiers comfortable with moguls, heavy snow or ice rather than a freshly groomed surface every morning; a second reviewer, bucki, made the same point in a 17 February 2017 review. Forum trip reports from the 2025/26 season describe the same pattern on individual days: shaded pistes like the Finstermünzabfahrt staying firm and bump-free while south-facing sections turned soft and chopped up by mid-morning.478
Where the easy terrain actually is
The 3.5 km graded easy is concentrated around the three children's areas in Wegscheid: Villa Lustig at the Jaudenhang, KinderSchneeLand at the Draxlhang, and a third area at the valley station run by former ski racer Michi Gerg's ski school. Our own routing measurement finds only 17% of the whole network reachable from the base without descending something harder than an easy run, the second-lowest share of the ten German resorts measured this way; a beginner is better off staying in Wegscheid than trying to explore the Brauneck side.32
Snow and aspect
Snowmaking has covered part of the area since 1990, backed by a water-storage reservoir built in 2012, but there is no glacier and the highest lift-served point is 1,712 m. Our measurement finds only 28% of the piste network faces north, northeast or northwest, the lowest share of the ten German resorts in this dataset, which works against holding snow into spring once natural cover starts to fade.62
| Skier | Verdict | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Confident intermediate | good | The bulk of the terrain suits this level directly, and at about an hour from Munich by car or by direct train it works as a repeatable day trip rather than a single big holiday.13 |
| Advanced skier | good | The Weltcup-Abfahrt, Garlandabfahrt and Weltcuphang carry the name of the 1980 FIS World Cup slalom, and one piste is named the Buckelweg, mogul path, directly on the operator's own map. Reviewers going back over a decade describe the black terrain as deliberately left bumpy rather than groomed flat, which is unusual for a Bavarian day resort.641 |
| Family with mixed abilities | good | Three separate children's ski areas, Villa Lustig, KinderSchneeLand and the Michi Gerg ski school's Kinderland, sit together in Wegscheid, and a family day ticket covers both parents and all their own children aged 6 to 15 for a flat 129 €.3 |
| Second-week skier | fair | Most of the mountain is red: 20.7 km of the 30.7 km marketed, at a measured 22% average gradient, and forum reports describe long ungroomed stretches even outside the black runs. A skier still building confidence will find plenty of it demanding.124 |
| Budget skier | fair | At 53 €, an adult day ticket sits in the middle of the Bavarian day-resort range. The Happy-Hour ticket from 14:30 (27 €) and the Wednesday Mittwochskracher (37 € flat) are the ways to bring that down, though the Mittwochskracher is also the resort's most crowded and most chopped-up day, according to forum reports from both 2019 and January 2026.397 |
| First-timer | poor | Only 3.5 km of the marketed 30.7 km is graded easy, and our own measurement finds just 17% of the network reachable without a harder run, the second-lowest share of the ten German resorts measured this way. The three children's areas in Wegscheid are a better bet than the open piste network.123 |
By car
From Munich, take the A8 to the Holzkirchen exit, then through Bad Tölz to Lenggries, about an hour according to the operator. Parking is at the valley stations in both Lenggries and Wegscheid.
By train
The Bayerische Regiobahn runs hourly from Munich to Lenggries. A free ski bus then runs hourly from the station and from Hohenwiesen, Winkl, Fleck, Anger and Wegscheid to the lifts, in high season and only while the lifts are running. The MVV Skipass Brauneck bundles a day ticket with the round trip across the whole MVV network and the bus transfer for 64.50 €.
Where to base yourself
| Lenggries | Valley station of the Brauneck-Kabinenbahn, at 680 m; the free ski bus hub |
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| Wegscheid 3 km | The other valley base, with the Milchhäuslexpress chairlift and the Draxlhang and Jaudenhang T-bars, and the resort's three children's ski areas |
| Munich 60 km | About an hour by car or by direct regional train |
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Panoramarestaurant
At the gondola's mountain station, rebuilt in 2004 and made wheelchair accessible by a lift from the station itself.6
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Brauneck-Gipfelhaus
A DAV hut run by the Alpiner Ski-Club München section, a 10-minute walk from the cable car's mountain station and distinct from the modern Panoramarestaurant below it. Built in 1930, with 88 sleeping places across rooms and dormitories.10
What skiers say
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Treat noon as the end of the prime window and complete your must-ski laps before then.11
A Brauneck local said conditions were normally manageable before midday, but that a large Munich day-trip wave arrived around 12:00.
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If the Brauneck gondola is already stacked at 08:00 on a bluebird Sunday, make one upload and then lap the Garland chair instead of returning to the gondola.12
One peak-Sunday report needed 27 minutes to board at 08:00, although pandemic admission checks accounted for part of that delay; the shaded Garland chair and Weltcupabfahrt were markedly quieter.
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Avoid the discounted Wednesday if piste quality matters more than the cheaper ticket.97
Reports from both 2019 and 2026 identify Wednesday as the busiest weekday because of the promotion; in January 2026 lift passengers described an exceptionally crowded Wednesday with badly degraded pistes.
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Do not wait for a dependable lunchtime lull; switch from queued Ahorn, Idealhang or valley drags to Milchhäusl or another quiet lift instead.12
A crowded-Sunday report found no post-pandemic lunch lull, five-minute Idealhang queues and similar waits at the Draxl and Jauden drags, while Milchhäusl was empty.
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For the Wegscheid family sector, park at Draxlhang or Jaudenhang and enter there rather than joining the main Brauneck gondola queue.13
The Wegscheid entrance feeds four roughly parallel drag lifts and then the Milchhäusl chair; forum regulars found its queues and parking more dependable for that sector, although parking management has changed since the report.
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When arriving by train, verify the operating day's ski-bus service with Brauneck rather than trusting the DB journey planner alone.14
On 11 March 2025 the bus to Wegscheid stopped when that side of the resort closed but remained displayed in DB; the regular bus still provided access to the main Brauneck gondola.
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On sunny weekends, either leave before closing or eat at Jägers by the main valley station and delay the drive toward Munich until roughly 18:45.1213
Brauneck reports repeatedly mention return congestion before Bad Tölz and around Holzkirchen; one skier deliberately waited at Jägers until 18:45 and still encountered a short Holzkirchen queue.
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On a warm or sunny day, start with Garland and the Weltcupabfahrt before moving to the south-facing sectors.812
A February 2026 live report found Garland's shaded pistes still firm and well groomed while the southern slopes were already soft and forming bumps by 09:30; another packed-day report also found Garland unusually quiet.
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Repeat Finstermünzabfahrt 22 from Schrödelstein when other pistes are chopped up.7
A January 2026 report singled out its fast opening traverse, steep pitch above Strasseralm, sharp bend and shaded lower section; it remained largely bump-free all day despite sunshine.
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In the afternoon, concentrate on Familienabfahrt 3 and 3a below the Milchhäusl top station rather than skiing the full descent from Ahorn.7
That lower shaded section was still almost perfect around 14:00 in a January 2026 report, whereas the upper part from Ahorn was already mediocre and not worth repeating.
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Treat Waxenstein as condition-dependent rather than an automatic Brauneck highlight.97
A March 2019 skier ranked its narrow wooded middle section second only to Garland, but a January 2026 visitor found it merely adequate and not worth a repeat; lower snow cover and thaw conditions appear decisive.
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Use Quengeralm as the lunch stop while repeating Finstermünzabfahrt 22.7
A recent trip report praised both the food and service, and its terrace directly complements laps through the Schrödelstein and Finstermünz sector.
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On a packed day, take an early lunch around 10:30 at Stie-Alm instead of spending the first major queue window at Idealhang.12
One skier used exactly this tactic when Idealhang waits reached about five minutes and later listed the Stie-Alm stop among the day's positives.
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If a novice will remain on the Draxl and Jauden valley lifts, compare the points or time ticket with the full-area day pass.13
A local forum contributor specifically recommended the points card for skiers staying on the Wegscheid practice slopes; current products and prices should be checked before travel.
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For a deliberately short session, buy the Brauneck Happy-Hour product from 14:30 instead of paying for a full day.15
A Munich discussion highlighted the 14:30 ticket as the economical way to ski the closing hours; the quoted price was season-specific and should not be treated as current.
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Do not interpret the easy Wegscheid valley runs as evidence that the whole mountain is beginner terrain.16
Local advice describes Draxlhang as suitable for learning, but warns that the upper area is dominated by narrow red and black pistes; beginners should remain in Wegscheid until genuinely ready.
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Do not assume the Ahorn exit and inter-sector links will be easy cruising after mid-morning.7
In January 2026 the track from Ahorn toward pistes 3 and 12 was already piled into ridges and slushy shortly after 10:00, while the link into Ahornabfahrt 4 and part of piste 20 had polished ice and longitudinal ridges.
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If your car is at the Brauneck gondola, plan to reach Ahorn by about 16:00 rather than finishing the day deep in Wegscheid or Finstermünz.17
A detailed circuit report treated the Ahorn chair as the necessary return link and aimed for it by 16:00 before the main gondola's 16:30 close; confirm the current day's lift times because schedules can change.
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Do not infer that Idealhang and Flori are skiable merely because Brauneck's snowmaking core is open.7
A 2026 local report said the Idealhang connection is repeatedly scoured by wind, while another reported that Florihang was no longer being snowmade and Flori 2 was not prepared; check individual runs and lifts before committing.
History
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1952
Brauneck Bergbahn GmbH Lenggries is founded, the starting point for the cable car project.6
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1957
The Brauneck-Kabinenbahn opens on 16 November after about 16 months of construction: 2,500 m long with an 800 m rise. It carries 170,000 people in its first year.618
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1960
The Deutsche Alpine Skimeisterschaft, the German Alpine Ski Championships, is held on the Brauneck.6
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1975
The lift network is expanded through the late 1960s and early 1970s, mechanical piste grooming begins, and the Ahornlift completes the connected ski circuit.6
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1980
A FIS World Cup slalom is held at Brauneck; the Weltcup-Abfahrt and Weltcuphang pistes still carry its name.6
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1990
Snowmaking is introduced on the mountain.6
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2000
The valley station, rebuilt closer to the mountain in 1993, receives modern four-person panoramic gondola cabins.618
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2004
The mountain station is rebuilt, made wheelchair accessible, and gets a new panorama restaurant.6
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2014
The Milchhäuslexpress, a six-seat chairlift with heated seats, opens at Wegscheid.6
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2019
The Schrödelsteinbahn, a detachable six-seat chairlift, opens.5
Nearby and comparable
- Sudelfeld
The other large Alpen Plus area, and similarly sized. Shares the Alpen Plus multi-day and season pass with Brauneck.
- Garmisch-Classic
Bigger, higher and further from Munich, with a proper valley descent and the Kandahar; a separate ticket, not part of Alpen Plus.
- Zugspitze
Germany's highest ski area, reached by cable car or cog railway rather than by road. Far smaller than Brauneck but skis into May most years, which Brauneck's lower, natural-snow terrain cannot match.
- Spitzingsee-Tegernsee
Another Alpen Plus area, with one of Germany's longest floodlit night-skiing runs; the fourth is Wallberg, mostly a single cable car above Rottach-Egern.
Questions
How many piste kilometers does Brauneck have, and how much of it is easy?
Skiresort.de measures 30.7 km of prepared piste at Brauneck-Lenggries/Wegscheid, split 3.5 km easy, 20.7 km intermediate and 6.5 km difficult, so only about one piste in nine is graded easy. Our own measurement of the OpenStreetMap network finds 25.1 km of marked piste and puts just 17% of it within reach of a skier who never leaves an easy run, the second-lowest share of the ten German resorts we have measured this way.12
Is Brauneck good for beginners?
Not especially. The marketed piste split has only 3.5 km rated easy out of 30.7 km, and our routing measurement finds just 17% of the network reachable without descending something harder than an easy run. Beginners are better served by the resort's three dedicated children's areas in Wegscheid, Villa Lustig, KinderSchneeLand and the Michi Gerg ski school's Kinderland, than by the open piste network.123
How do you get to Brauneck from Munich, and how long does it take?
About an hour, by car via the A8 to the Holzkirchen exit and through Bad Tölz to Lenggries, or by the Bayerische Regiobahn directly to Lenggries, with a free ski bus on to the valley stations. The MVV Skipass Brauneck bundles a day ticket with the round trip across the whole Munich transport network and the bus transfer, for 64.50 € for an adult.3
What does a day ticket at Brauneck cost?
An adult day ticket was 53 € for the 2025/26 winter, with 46 € for 16 to 18 year-olds and 26 € for children aged 6 to 15; seniors from 65 paid 50 € and students with a valid ID 47 €. A Happy-Hour ticket from 14:30 was 27 € for anyone from 16 up and 10 € for a child. The operator had not published 2026/27 prices as of 30 August 2026.3
What is the Alpen Plus ticket, and which resorts does it cover?
Alpen Plus is the joint multi-day and season pass covering four Bavarian areas: Brauneck, Sudelfeld, Spitzingsee-Tegernsee and Wallberg. A single-day, half-day or hourly ticket bought at Brauneck is valid at Brauneck only; it is the two-day-and-longer passes and the season passes that carry the Alpen Plus name and work across all four areas.319
Is Brauneck a steep, advanced-skier mountain?
By German standards, yes. Our measurement of the network finds a 22% average piste gradient, and the marked difficult terrain includes the Weltcup-Abfahrt and Weltcuphang, both named for the FIS World Cup slalom held here in 1980, plus a piste the operator's own map names the Buckelweg, mogul path. Reviewers describe the black terrain as deliberately left rough rather than groomed flat, which is unusual for a Bavarian day resort, though it does not make Brauneck a high-Alpine steep-skiing destination.264
Does Brauneck have snowmaking, and how reliable is the snow?
Snowmaking has covered part of the area since 1990, backed by a water reservoir built in 2012, but the resort has no glacier and its highest point is only 1,712 m, so the season depends heavily on natural snowfall. Our measurement finds just 28% of the piste network facing north, northeast or northwest, the lowest share of the ten German resorts in this dataset, which works against holding snow into spring.62
References
Every claim on this page carries a numbered marker linking here, and every reference links back to the passages that used it. Numbers not yet checked against a source are marked like this.
- 1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Testbericht Skigebiet Brauneck – Lenggries/Wegscheid
- 2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k SkiAllDay routing graph, computed from OpenStreetMap
- 3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Pistenplan & Preisliste Brauneck 2025/26
- 4. ^ a b c d e Bewertung Brauneck - Lenggries: Erfahrungsbericht
- 5. ^ a b Unsere Bergbahnen
- 6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o 60 Jahre Brauneck Bergbahn: Geschichte
- 7. ^ a b c d e f g h i Brauneck 2025/2026
- 8. ^ a b Lenggries Brauneck 2025/26
- 9. ^ a b c Brauneck / Lenggries - Wegscheid 2018/19
- 10. ^ Brauneck-Gipfelhaus
- 11. ^ I also made a honest map for my local ski hill! Brauneck in Germany
- 12. ^ a b c d e Brauneck - Großkampftag zum 2. (13.02.2022)
- 13. ^ a b c Skigebiet nähe München für Anfänger
- 14. ^ Skitour Brauneck
- 15. ^ Skiing for beginners (quite)
- 16. ^ Ski Slopes(Pisten) for Beginners near Munich?
- 17. ^ Brauneck 26.03.2019 | Nostalgie trifft Moderne [XXL-Bericht]
- 18. ^ a b Brauneck-Bergbahn
- 19. ^ Die Skigebiete im Überblick / The ski resorts at a glance
Page last updated 30 August 2026.