Saalfelden – Hiking the Heidensperre

Living in the mountains has its advantages. Especially when you feel like detoxing by hiking up a mountain side far, far away from the everyday drag of work. My buddy Ronny and I chose a pretty short, but cool route up the Saalfeldener side of the Steinerne Meer mountain towards the Heidensperre which is a huge…

Austria – Late Season Hike up my backyard

Friday after work my neighbor and I set of totally motivated to have an evening hike. Tank top, snowboard pants, sunglasses, snowshoes and my board on my backpack and we started our hike up the mountain to try to counter the monotony of a desk job. The tobogganing hill was already shut down for the season and the…

How about a little Glacier Ice Climbing Richter Hut (Hohe Tauern National Park)

It was time to get back into the mountains this weekend! My new job and moving made a tour in the mountains long overdue. A friend Georg called earlier that week and we decided to take a tour to the Richter hut. Another friend Armin, took the hut over about a month ago, we planned to surprise him….

Oh Madonna! Hiking in the Brenta Range

Thanks to a few vacation days bridging the gap to a long weekend, it was time to travel a little further away. We wanted to travel to Italy to Lake Garda for climbing and enjoyable Italian weather. Meeting up in Innsbruck, we started the task of reloading cars. We didn’t have exact plans but prepared for…

Rainy Steps on the Jenner

This Saturday was pretty rainy so we decided to just take a leisurely hike up to the Jenner Mountain. Steffie, Georg and I set off to tackle the 1000 Meters of altitude. The tour was pretty regardless of the weather, providing dramatic views of the Königssee (Kings Lake) which is likely the most beautiful lake in Germany. The…

Italy – near the Ortler Range

So what do you do when the weather looks this bad? What about driving 1600 km searching for sunshine in the new car? Well, to be fair, that wasn’t really the plan from the start. It was a long weekend and I couldn’t find anyone who had time or wanted to travel during the long weekend….

Wild Weekend Trekking the Brenta

This past weekend was wicked (tiring)! We left for Molveno, Italy on Friday afternoon enjoying the breathtaking landscape. We parked and loaded up the backpacks… around 20 kilos later, we started hiking. We made it about an hour and a half to two, before it got dark. We found a hut which looked closed so we thought it would be no problem…