Austria, country of open air adventures – Useful tips

  Austria’s hills, valleys, lakes and mountains offer to the hikers a lot of

opportunities of sports and activities in open air.

  Ski in Austria

  Austria is considered by the specialists and not only, the country of the modern ski. Since the early of XX century when Mathias Zdarski invented the well known slalom event, Austria became one of the most important winter sports centre in the world. 

  In Austria there regions where ski lovers can practice on ice all over the year.

  Alpine regions Dachstein, Kaunertal, Pitzalor Mölltal, have conditions for practice ski all the year long no matter the weather. 

  Many challenges expect for the sportsmen such as Hahnenkamm event the most difficult and dangerous downhill running in the world. A success in this competition is more prestigious than a gold medal in the world championship.  

  Nowadays, in Austria is very popular the skiing on the artificial snow. 

  Dachstein offers the best outside track skiing conditions in all the country

  If you plan to spend few or more days skiing in Austria, it is recommended to be always accompanied by a experimented guide taking into consideration the avalanches risk in the Austrian mountains. 

  Acrobatic ski

  In the latest years all skiing clubs included in their offer snowboarding courses and many resorts arranged tracks for snowboarding in order to attract more and more young sportsmen. They also supply introducing lessons in snow rafting. This means that the enthusiastic sport lovers go down on the tracks on rafts. The speed is very high and the raft is coxless.

  Ice sports

  Ice skating is a traditional winter sport in Austria.

  When the frost is high, the Neusiedler Lake become a huge ice strip, deep of few meters having 40 sq meters surface, very proper for skating and other ice sports. 

  The ice yachts can rich over 80 km/h in good wind conditions, being more rapide than any other boats. 

  Weissensee in Carinthia is the only place in Europe where is a area for ice golf. There is a disadvantage in practising this sport because once the ball gone into the whole it is lost for ever. 

  At the southern side of the alpine ridge the ice hockey is the most popular sport. The most of the villages directed for touristic activities have hockey fields for tourists too.

  Sledging on natural ice slide is very appreciate and tasted by the spectators. In Austria the sledging is an alternative of skiing and in the same range an entertainment after ski.

  The latest winter sport, dog sledging, brought from Canada, became one of the most popular sports with spectators.

  Mountains Call  

  Austria is one of the alpinism cradle. In Austria, the alpinism is learned in special schools. The alpinism Austrian schools offer courses of free alpinism aiming the routes on the rocky surfaces in the numerous alpinism parks of Austria.

  Ice falls alpinism is a very loved variant of alpinism.

  Nautical sports

  Many famous nautical regions as: Neusiedler Lake in Burgenland, Attersee and Wolfgangsee in Salzkammergut, Bodensee in Vorarlberg and Achensee in Tirol, attract every year a lot of nautical sports lovers.

  Kayaking, windsurfing are more popular than the navigations in Austria.

  But by far, rafting is the most thrilling adventure, one could have on the Austrian mountain rivers. 

  Aerial alternatives

  The Alps are the Austrian haven for the sail planes. During the summer, thousand of coloured sail planes plunge down through the rocky abrupt, surfaces. More popular than that is the paragliding in the Kössen, in Tyrol and Garstner Valley - see more in vacation home rentals guide.

  Mountain biking 

  Burgenland, the most eastern Austrian county, is the ideal place for a biking tour. The region offer a proper network of tracks for bikes with inns and service points.

  There are many bike tracks along the Danube, from Strudengau, in High Austria, and through Wachau to Vienna.

  In High Austria are organised bike tours, and languages are transported by organizers to the next stop point, while the tourists ride are riding along the Danube.

  If you are one of these types of sports lovers and you plan another kind of vacation, the Austria expects for you and our associates site are prepared with attractive rental offers check Alps rental.