Skitouring Hut-to-Hut April 2017
Day 1Craig arrived by train on Saturday morning and we drove to Galtür in Austria. It was warm and sunny and our skis seemed a bit out of place. They…
Ski tour Hirschberg
Leonie and I went ski touring up to (near) Hirschberg in Bregenzerwald. It was spring time at the bottom and nice and powdery near the top.1) Blue sky as we…
Craig visits April 2016
Craig came to visit over the weekend. Above: Craig borrowed my touring skis. To get them into shape we polished them up using my undies. Perfect. On Saturday we drove…
Martin Busch Hütte – Day 3 Kreuzspitze
More fantastic weather. We left just before 8 am and headed up behind the hut towards a peak named Kreuzspitze. The snow had a hard crust as we ascended as Elmar cut the track in front of us. Soon we had other groups following us up from the hut.
It started steep and then flattened off before becoming steep again. Later, I started to worry that I wouldn’t be able to ski back down with the hard crust and the slope. Eventually the others made a ski depot and I waited by rocks a few metres below while they headed up to the summit and back down again.
It was an awesome view out across the mountains. Blue sky, no clouds, warm. I still wasn’t sure how I was going to ski back down though. It required a few sharp turns above a slope that ran out to what looked like a drop, then some traversing on the skis before another steep descent.
Martin Busch Hütte – Day 2 – Similaun
It was another sunny day and at 7:30 am we were standing outside the hut ready to head off towards the land of pizza. We headed up the valley to…