Brauneck Alone on Skis

Published on 2017-1-7 by Michael Stanton

Brauneck

January 7, 2017

I was back two days later; high avalanche danger kept me out of the higher mountains. It's simply because the uptrack is such an enjoyable trail, I didn't mind skiing on a commercial ski mountain. I repeated what Jaro and I did exactly, but on the way down I stopped at a strategic point where the uphill track has two variations. The one Jaro and I did was to skin steeply up along the east side of a hill and the left side of a little-used piste, and then follow a steep and narrow trail in forest until making a long traverse west near the crest of the hill to a saddle above the Florianhütte. But the other route traverses below this hill on the south to reach the hut itself, climbing very slowly, and then rejoining the other route at the saddle. So I applied my skins again (elevation here is 1100 meters) and went to the Florianhütte and from there to the summit.

This gave me a total elevation gain for the day of 1300 meters, which was fine. I was in fact, well-pleased.