environmentally  CONSCIOUS BEHAVIOR

Train instead of car: When traveling to Davos, it is best to avoid the car altogether and switch to public transport - or form car pools. For example, the train journey from Zurich to Davos produces 25 times less CO₂ than a car journey.

Hit the slopes with Snow’n’Rail
Get to Davos Klosters by public transport and enjoy reductions on your ski pass.

If you arrive by car, only marked parking spaces should be used. Parking on roadsides or meadows not only disturbs the farmer, but also destroys the roadsides and the biodiversity there. There are various parking options at our Mountain Hotels and Resorts. We also offer car loading for electric cars. Please ask our friedliy staff when booking your hotel.

Digital travel documents: Instead of printing your travel documents on paper, it is sufficient to call them up on your smartphone and present them. This also applies to the mountain railway ticket at the cashier desk.

Carpooling is a great way to make your journey to your holiday destination more ecological. Carpooling Switzerland - the two best portals:

Blablacar: Both as a passenger and as a driver you register for free and the Blablacar app is also free. The price for the ride is determined by the driver. As a rule, this corresponds to a compensation per kilometer and passenger.

Idosh: The carpooling agency from Zurich, brings drivers and passengers together, regardless of whether the trip is spontaneous, planned, one-time or recurring. Both registration and the Idosh app are free.
Especially cool: Passengers save a lot of money, because they don't pay anything. Drivers are rewarded with points via a bonus system, which can be redeemed with partner companies such as Swiss federal railways (SBB).

Use the public transport in Davos and Klosters (free with the Davos Klosters Premium Card) instead of using your car. In addition, our Mountain Hotels offer e-bikes for free use in summer.

Eat local products on site. Strong riders need healthy food! Here are some examples:

• The speciality shop, AlpäTraum: Here you can enjoy specialties from the region all year round. In addition to local cheese and sausage specialties, homemade jams, fine wines, drinks, pasta, sauces, teas and many other delicacies are available.
• At milk & more you will find dairy products and specialties for gourmets. All products are from the region, produced here and carefully selected. Best quality and natural freshness are a matter of course.
• Some farmers in the Davos Klosters region offer fine homemade specialties in their own farm stores from house sausage and beef entrecot to yogurt and fine pastries.

Bring your own water bottle. Reusable systems are generally more environmentally friendly than single-use systems. In addition, the drinking water in Davos is very clean and comes 100% from the mountains. So you can equip yourself every day with fresh drinking water for the road.

Recycled material: Before buying your new jacket, backpack or board, ask if they are made from recycled materials and produced in an environmentally sustainable way. This way, existing resources can be used and no new ones are needed for your hobby.

Pass on your old ski clothes, skis or snowboards to others:This way you make someone else happy and don't have to dispose of the equipment. We organize an annual snowboard exchange, as well as a clothing exchange in the Bolgenschanze.

In addition, the association "IG offenes Davos" gladly accepts used sports equipment. They offer it to refugees who have been accepted into the region and give them an opportunity to better integrate and try out snow sports.

In addition, there are regional marketplaces on social media platforms where sports equipment that is still in working order can be offered for sale.

In the mountains there is no garbage collection. That's why you won't find any trash cans along the paths. It's true: in the mountain landscape, your footprint leaves 10 times the damage compared to a city. This is true for any kind of waste. So also for the banana peel! Because biological waste also composts much slower at altitude. So take any kind of waste back with you or deposit it in appropriate waste containers.

Many smokers are not aware of the harmful effect of cigarette butts for nature. The toxic substances in the filters are washed out with the rain and enter the environment. One butt poisons more than 40 liters of groundwater and the animals and microorganisms living in it. The filters themselves are eaten by animals or they break down into tiny particles over 15 years and end up in nature as harmful microplastics. So help us and deposit your filters in a pocket ashtray. You can get them free of charge at our sales points.

Especially with increased human traffic in the mountains, we should avoid polluting the ecosystem. With the use of nature as a toilet, the unwanted nutrient input can lead to changes in plants, harm animals but also negatively affect the groundwater. Therefore, please always use the public toilets at the valley and mountain stations.

When hiking and biking, always stay on the trails. Otherwise you will trample very sensitive plants that often need decades to grow just a few centimeters. The trampling of loose stones also promotes erosion, which in extreme cases after rainfall can cause large debris flows down to the valleys. If you are on pastures, you should always close the cattle gates. Cows that run away often have to be searched for a long time. In addition, they can cause damage to nature, or even die themselves by falling.

Due to the picking of mountain flowers, such as the alpine roses, the gentian or of course the edelweiss, these have been severely threatened in the Alps. Please take only photos and leave the flowers their habitat.

Please stay on the marked and opened slopes. Experienced freeriders we ask to respect the protection zones and not to damage nature, especially in forest areas.

Maintain your snowboard or skis with environmentally friendly wax. Waxes containing fluorine are harmful to humans and nature.