Have you heard about via ferrata Spielmauer near Mariazell in Austria? I have noticed this route about one year ago, and now it is time to climb it. We could split it to three different parts – Tristans Kirchobensteig and Olivers Mariazeller Steig, which has one more branch near top called FelixˈHimmelsleiter. Sunday early morning …
Late Sunday morning we are in parking place close to Drachenwand via ferrata (parking fee 2€). I am surprised how many cars are here. Drachenwand via ferrata will be overcrowded for sure. Anyway we came to climb so we need to put on climbing gear and move towards our todays route. Still lots of cars …
I have planned vacation for Wednesday and Thursday to go hiking in Slovakia. However I have changed my plans and went to Csesznek via ferrata with few of my friends. It is close to Bratislava, so there is no reason not to go. Shortly before 9 am, Dusan picked me up. In city we have …
It is mid of September. End of via ferrata season is coming. However, I do have a lot of routes in my to do list. Some of them have to be posponed to next year, or year after or…. Everything is based on the weather and climbing friends. It seems that weekend will be great …
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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Last year I was for the first time in Dolomites and I immediately fell in love with them. These mountains have not only fantastic shape, but also beautiful colours. The only problem is that they are very far from my place. Nevertheless, I managed to visit them also this year. Last year I was in …
You know that feeling. You are browsing the net, or you find yourself lost in some sport magazine and once you see a photograph. On that picture is a man climbing up some rock wall. The rock wall acts very cold, sky is nice blue and beautiful scenery picture this moment as superb and dangerous …
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Is it raining or not? We are going anyway. Because of bad weather we had to postpone ascent to Gran Paradiso this year. Later we change our plans to ascent to Zugspitze. However there was new snow in Zugspitze. We really wanted to go somewhere hiking, enjoy our vacation so we start looking for some …
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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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Summer hiking season is over. September 24th 2013 was a really beautiful day, weather forecast says “great” so we decided to go to Cortina d´Ampezzo climb via ferrata Gianni Aglio – Tofana di Mezzo and Tofana di Dentro. However we had no idea, that hiking season is totally over and everything was completely closed including …
