Up the Hochälpele once again two days later, but this time shared it with family. Super!
Up the Hochälpele once again two days later, but this time shared it with family. Super!
December 3rd brought some real snowfall into the local mountains. So out with the ski touring equipment and off Franz went to the local mountains in the nearby Bödele. Plenty of other skiers had the same idea and they were…
We enjoyed our last day of the cross country ski season in Schoppernau. The trails were not groomed but it was nice to be out relishing the spring weather. The pistes run from Au to Schoppernau and hold 50 km…
A fantastic sunny cross country day on the Tschengla. The Tschengla is situated on a high plateau above Bürserberg at 1250m with amazing views of the Brandnertal valley below. The high plain even overlooks a Neolithic stone circle that looks…
A great day for a early morning ski tour at the Hochälpele in the nearby Bregenzerwald. Hochälpele is a moderate tour about 8.4 km, 600m up and 600 down. We got up early to enjoy the fresh snow before other…
Bright and early morning cross country skiing on the Argenbach Au in the Bregenzerwald. The Argen will soon be running high and fast with the warmer weather coming. The bees are already back! Not many more days until the snow…
The snow from the previous night made for some icy roads up to the Hochhäderich in the Bregenzerwald. The Alpenarena had only prepared some trails so Franz made his own tracks across the pristine snowscape of the high moors.
When I do anything sportive with Franz I am always playing catch up. He recently went on a snowshoeing tour with his nephew although I edited the video clip to look like he was lagging but he really wasn’t! He…
February is still deep winter in Austria but recently we have had a spate of spring weather and it has been incredible for all snow sports. So we took advantage on a Monday morning and went skiing in Damüls without…
Brrr… A chilly 10° C cross country ski afternoon in the Bregenzerwald at Sibratsgfäll. The trails were icy and fast today. This past winter many of the slopes and trails for skiing in Vorarlberg were open only to residents due…