Skitouring 23/24
A summary of my best ski tours in the season 2023/24.
Tracked stats: 11.11.2023 - 11.04.2024, 506km, 177h, 54vkm
(I mostly track for navigation and sometimes when I'm interested in my heart rate. So most of my usual laps were not tracked)
Nockspitze
I've done most of my first descents on Nockspitze in skimo gear except the N (only skied once) and NW (skied in skimo gear multiple times) couloir.
North East Couloir
Visible from Innsbruck, you have to traverse and get up a few meters to the pre-peak. Dropping in is the hardest part Then it's a very beautiful and not too difficult couloir.
Nockspitz NE couloir on fatmap
North Couloir
Barely skied, needs very safe conditions to get to the entrance, very steep and narrow beginning,
North West Couloir
Between summit and pre-peak, regularly skied, entrance is sketchy, steep and often icy, either step down on skiers right or if you know what you're doing you can try to ride skiers left. Traverse to the right and from there on it's beautiful.
Nockspitz NE couloir on fatmap
Direct North Descent
Drop in directly from the summit, needs quite a lot of snow, very steep and narrow parts, stay to the skiers right, everything is skiable, no jumps or climbing needed with enough snow. There should be a variant possible to the skiers left at the bottom which seems to require a jump.
There should be another possibility to the west and I skied a short one right next to Mairrinne.
Hinterer Brunnenkogel
Going up through Längental, down a couloir to Lisenser Ferner and back down through a couloir to Längental.
Monte Cevedale
Not the best idea to go there in January during the coldest days of the year. We had -30°C and more than 80 km/h wind. Highest summit so far.
Schwärzrinne
Classic couloir in Ehrwald and my first rappel with skis. Thanks, Dani!
Schwärzrinne description by aearlyup
Sulzkogel and Zwölferkogel East Faces
Two very steep faces that we were not sure that we can ski. Scouted a week earlier from the lake for "in a few years". Direct east descent from Sulzkogel. We went down on the south-east ridge of Zwölferkogel and traversed into the east face. Direct descent seems possible but very exposed and steep.
Lüsener Fernerkogel North Ridge
After turning around last year I finally did it. A long and heinous day out. The ridge is UIAA 2 in summer if you get the path right. We for sure didn't find that in winter and ended up with a ~ UIAA 4 section. I didn't expect too much snow, but we got in neck deep pow.
Kesselspitze and Serles North Couloirs
Linking two classic couloirs in the Stubaier alps resulting in my tour with the biggest elevation gain this season, 2.5k of which I had to track ~1.5k. I did most of the tour solo. And I don't think these couloirs are often linked. For the downhill of the second couloir a friend joined. We got rewarded with unexpected perfect pow in the couloirs.
Kesselspitze Couloir description by bergsteigen.com
Serles Couloir description by bergsteigen.com
Bockkogel West Couloir
Everything was ice. We had to sidestep parts down.
Bockkogel Couloir description by aearlyup
Großer Trögler North Couloir
Very nice tour if you don't walk wrong even though you have a GPX track... The top of the couloir is amazing, at the bottom it gets more technical.