This year, winter has started early with lots of snow in the Alps. Because of that Arno and I decided to go ski touring this Sunday and Arno (he has worked, climbed and ski-toured in Munich before) selected a 1200 m ascent up the Schafreuter, a mountain South of Bad Toelz, near the Austrian border. Here is a description:
https://www.bergfex.at/sommer/tirol/touren/skitour/34142,auf-den-schafreuter/
Near Hinterriss, our starting point, the roads were partially covered by snow and from the start at 850 m of altitude there was tons of snow. Here is Arno early during the ascent...
... and here he follows the forest track.
After that a wider opening in the forest. The Schafreuter is a popular tour so we did not have to break trail which would have been difficult as the snow was at least knee deep.
We met another team and were glad when they led the way on the final ridge that led to the summit. Whiteout conditions. We stopped just before the summit.
It was Scottish (i.e. windy, white out, icy), so we removed the skins from the skis quickly. After a few minutes of whiteout skiing we reached the right line and were gliding through fluffy prime powder. Here is Arno ...
... and here he is again styling his way down the hill.
I was a bit apprehensive about struggling in the powder, falling and losing my skis but everything went well and soon we reached the easy-to-ski (it was quite narrow though) forest track...
... all the way back to the car. We have liftoff!
HW
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