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In the Kitzbühel area, you have sheer mountains in the south and east, the Wilder Kaiser in the north – and in between, a nice part of the…
Sometimes, you just need to get away from your routine, from comfortable commutes from work to home, to TV and the bed. When work got a bit much,…
Sometimes, I just feel a need to get high… up in the mountains. The Ötztal Glacier Trailrun (link to official site, in German) is one of the events…
Is a local mountain worth exploring when it’s far away and not tall at all? How far away is it really, and how tall does it feel when…
On the Eastern shore of the Hallstatt lake, north of the Dachstein massif, lies a mountain that often goes overlooked, the Sarstein.
The Schneeberg (“snow mountain”) often becomes visible on the horizon from where I live. Across the Neusiedler See lake. On my train commute to Vienna. It is the…
Hallstatt is seeing fewer tourists these days, but it is still usually approached in very touristy ways: There directly, in and gone. I am still taking other ways…
Snowy Salzkammergut winter, and I wanted to try another approach to Hallstatt. This time, over the Sarstein.
Hallstatt is usually visited quickly, coming by bus or by train and the boat across the lake. I decided to go slow, measure my approach in steps climbed…