If you’d like to, you can pack all your food, sleeping bags, and cookware and stay in a bare bones hut. Austria’s alpine refuge huts are scattered throughout the Alps and offer you varying levels of comfort. Notes on Hut to Hut hiking – In typical Austrian fashion, shed some pack weight and try hiking Hut to Hut. To read up on all Tyrols Alpine Club refuge huts, check out Tyrol Tourism’s list here. Turning up without a booking means you could be left out in your bivy bag! Huts and guesthouses do fill up over the summer. If you do decide to go hut hiking this summer, make sure you book your accommodation in advance. You can also hop on a bus back from one of the many towns the walk passes. Either walk all the way out to Kitzbuhel in the East, or Switzerland in the west. You can continue along the route about 124 miles each way from here.įrom Innsbruck, you can break the Eagle Walk in half. The mid-section of the walk passes Nordkette – only a short gondola from Innsbruck (seriously, the gondola starts in the city center). In full, it’s 250 miles and 33 days long. If you want a bit more of a challenge, read up on the famous Eagle Walk. The gondola is only a 20-minute bus ride from the city center. It departs from the top of Patscherkofel Gondola which is visible from town. If you’re looking for a place to start a hut to hut hike, the intermediate level Inntal High Trail takes 6 days. With 13 miles of pistes and promised “corn snow” all year round, Stubai Glacier is not only a novel ski holiday but a shockingly good one.
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Even if you thought it might, spring skiing won’t even break the bank- a full day pass only costs €40.80 (roughly $45).
This year they’re finishing their season on the 10th of June. Snow is guaranteed from October to June only 45 minutes from town at Stubai Glacier. While most resorts shut down in April, Innsbruck works a bit differently. Our first suggestion isn’t even a summer sport. Here are 10 suggestions for spectacular summer activities, to get you started researching your next outdoors holiday in Austria. Biking, hiking, and climbing all easily accessed from the town center. But there is also a thriving summer sports scene in Innsbruck. They’ve hosted the winter Olympics twice and boast 9 different ski-resorts accessible from town. Innsbruck is a famous spot in the ski world. It’s the capital of the Austrian province of Tyrol and the worlds biggest alpine city. It’s proclaimed itself Europe’s “Bike Capital” and it is a naturephile’s dream. No matter where you are, a walk in the woods or a gondola up a mountain is only 15 minutes away.
Students on commuter bikes or athletes on mountain bikes whiz around the cities countless bike lanes. Topping off the old European architecture are megalith peaks. Picture a small city, nestled in a valley- a beautiful teal blue glacial river runs through the middle.
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