Ascent to Hoher Sonnblick
We wanted to hike to Hoher Sonnblick, but this time we did not have luck for a good weather. Weather forecast was much better than reality.
We wanted to hike to Hoher Sonnblick, but this time we did not have luck for a good weather. Weather forecast was much better than reality.
Yesterday we have hiked to Grosser Hafner summit and spend the night in Kattowitzer hut. Today we need to descent to dam at the end of Maltatal valley. As we have great weather we have plenty of time to descent via same path as we get here and visit all the beauty which is hidden …
Again it is Saturday morning and again we are lazy to wake up. This time we do not need to wake up extremely early because we are less than an hour from end of the Malta valley. We will reach it via beautiful Malta alpine road. Near the hotel and upper dam I am parking …
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In the middle of the September we wanted to climb our first 4000 m / 13 123 ft summit. We already have couple of plans, but before we try to reach such a summit, we need to perform acclimatization trip. Definitely it will not be the perfect, but we need to go to high altitude …
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It is first week of November. Weather at mountains have beed good during the weekend and I was hiking in High Fatra in Slovakia. I enjoyed that a lot. Therefore I start planing what I will do next weekend. It is November so I am clear it is not going to be some high mountains. …
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Last day of my summer vacation in Gastein valley was an easy day. We went for a short walk to Anlauf valley. Our hike started near railway tunnel, which cross Hohe Tauern. in Afternoon we went to Bad Gastein to “climb” Übungsklettersteig via ferrata. Übungsklettersteig means training via ferrata. This name suits this route perfectly. …
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Today I definitely need to relax and find some easy activity. Climbing Konigsjodler via ferrata yesterday was nice, but exhausting. It is time to show my friends spectacular Grossglockner high Alpine road which is not far from us. Weather forecast for today is great. Even the Grossglockner should be without clouds. We have nice breakfast …
Yesterday we had an easy day and visited Krimmel waterfalls. Today we can go for a real hike. We decided to go to Bockhartsee lakes, which are situated at the end of Gastein valley. All of us got in a car and moving to Sportsgastein. To enter toll road you have to pay 5€ per …
As I wrote already in article via ferrata arena Klettersteigarena Hohenburg, with couple of friends I went to Hohe Tauern to climb Grosses Wiesbachhorn (3 564 m / 12 461 ft). After nice warm up, we started to ascent to Heinrich-Schwaiger-Haus ( 2 800 m / 9 186 ft). We just need to ascent “few” …
In next weekend trip with friends we went to highest mountain range in Austria – Hohe Tauern. We wanted to hike to Grosses Wiesbachhorn (3 564 m / 11 693 ft ). Before we could do that, we wanted to spend couple of hours in via ferrata arena Klettersteigarena Höhenburg near the upper Kaprun dam. …
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