No question, you’re not just any winter sports fan, when talking about skiing you know exactly how the land lies. You’re not looking for flat, wide slopes to “cruise” on, you are in search of real, pure adventure. For you, nothing compares to a downhill run in open terrain through wonderful powder snow. And when you then have even scaled the summit under your own steam, your day in the wintry mountains is perfect reaching its climax on a downhill run through pristine deep powder snow.

So no time to lose, let’s get up that mountain and hit the powder, a wonderful day of freeriding is waiting for us …!” But before becoming all too euphoric now, of course we’ll check the avalanche warning report and find out the exact situation in the ski areas.

Our safety equipment consisting of an avalanche transceiver, shovel and probe works perfectly. We know this because we check it before each tour and make sure it works properly, just as we always update our knowledge and skills. We are true freeriders, after all, and never leave our safety to chance.

What is strung together here is not just the highest and most impressive peaks in the Austrian Alps, you’ll also find numerous true ski touring classics of the Eastern Alps, which every ambitious ski mountaineer should have scaled. If names such as Hocharn, Hoher Sonnblick, the Resseck, the Sadnig or the Teuchelspitze are music to your ears, then you’ve come to the right place. Make sure not to miss out on the ski touring classics in the region Obervellach-Reisseck:

The combination could not be any better, high alpine terrain, very reliable snow conditions, lots of natural skiing space and very little mass winter tourism. At Ankogel mountain the longest downhill run in Carinthia with more than 1,600 m difference in altitude awaits, while true freeride pros have the downhill run from the Mölltal Glacier down into neighbouring Salzburg’s Sportgastein on their radar.