The race takes place on Sunday after the famous Mittelallilin downhill race on Saturday on the same route and is open to both professionals and amateur downhill skiers. The start is at the mountain station at 3600 meters above sea level, the finish is in the village of Saas-Fee and the course runs on hard-groomed ski slopes on the Allalin Glacier.

While Siemens is launching the snow downhills in a big way this year with the SnowKing, the downhill in Saas Fee has not yet been integrated into a series. According to Bernhard Tschannen from Saas-Fee Bergbahnen, the intention is to hold the "Glacier Bike Downhill" on an annual basis and is definitely interested in integrating it into a European structure.