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World Snow Day: Discover, enjoy and live Vitosha Winter Fest 2024

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"Discover. Enjoy. Live." is the motto of the Vitosha Winter Fest 2024, which today brings together lovers of winter sports and the mountains. The sports event will take place at the Aleko Chalet as part of the World Snow Day.

The aim is to get more people out into the nature to take part in various challenges - not only sports, but also quizzes, mountain songs, snowball fights, snow figure competitions, the most attractive look, the best decorated sledge.

For the first time, snowbike duels will be held on Stenata run above the hut.



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