Nockberge Trail ski tour ­through ­crossing

23. Aug. 2023

Only a few years old and already a classic: the Nockberge Trail ski touring traverse from Katschberg to Bad Kleinkirchheim ©Kärnten Werbung/Steinthaler

Names like Haute Route, Venter Runde or Hoch Tirol have always been on the wish list of many ski mountaineers. The overnight stays were in huts in mattress camps – in winter, due to the humidity, it was often a special olfactory experience. The rucksacks were heavy because you have to carry everything with you for several days – that’s how you learn to ski. Despite everything, of course, you wanted to enjoy a wonderful mountain experience in a constantly changing mountain landscape. But do all the hardships have to be with a ski crossing?

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The ascent on the Nockberge Trail is often very promising © Franz Gerdl/Kärnten Werbung

We say no! And YES to an enjoyable ski touring traverse. A traverse where you don’t have to make any compromises in terms of the landscape experience, but gladly with the weight of your backpack. With us at Bookyourtrail.com you can book an optional luggage service for this online bookable ski crossing. So that you can climb up more comfortably with light day luggage and descent more enjoyable, without having to do without the rest of your luggage in the hotel. At the end of a day of ski touring in the Nockberge mountains in the middle of a wonderful, untouched and snow-covered landscape, you don’t stay in huts but in comfortable hotels and wellness resorts. Every day in a different hotel in a new place – you are crossing the Nockberge Biosphere Park. Wilderness & wellness. Rest and relaxation in the evening and adventure during the day. But well dosed, the adventure: You don’t have to be a monster of fitness or an extreme skier to have fun ski touring in the Nockberge. The stage lengths of this four-day crossing are deliberately kept moderate. So that you also have time to look and be amazed and enough strength for the descents in hopefully powdery snow. Because the descents on the ideally inclined and wide slopes are as enjoyable as everything else on this wilderness & wellness ski crossing.

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Sporty, but without the menacing seriousness of the high mountains

By now you already know where this wonderful ski touring traverse is hidden. Nomen est omen – in the Carinthian Nockberge mountains starting at the Katschberg! In mountains that look like their names: namely nockig. Round mountains, if you will, but ruggedness is unknown to them. Exactly the right mountain group for an enjoyable moderate ski crossing. And just the right slope for wonderful, not too difficult deep snow descents. During the day you move in the snow-covered Biosphere Park Nockberge far away from civilization – at the end of your ski tour day in the Nockberge you will always reach a ski resort with comfortable hotels and all amenities. At the beginning of each of the four ski touring stages, lifts support you during the ascent so that you can save energy for the rest of the way. The stage locations Katschberg, Innerkrems, Turracherhöhe and Falkertsee are all at at least 1,550 m above sea level and are therefore pretty sure of snow. The ski touring week ends in Bad Kleinkirchheim, where you can e.g.. in the Römertherme Bad Kleinkirchheim you can really relax again.

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Wilderness and wellness: comfortable hotels such as the famous Hotel Hochschober on the Turracherhöhe serve as trail accommodation © Hotel Hochschober

You not only have comfort in the hotels on the Nockberge Trail, but also when booking via Bookyourtrail.com. You can book this trail quickly and easily online. On any date, from 2 people (you should never go on a ski tour alone) and even just for a weekend – then you simply book 2 stages as a 2-day ski tour. You have almost endless possibilities to configure your booking online the way you want it (e.g. other hotel category) and you can optionally book the already praised luggage service. A return transport can of course also be booked. And should you actually have any wishes that you cannot select online, then simply give us a call. We’re always happy to help! You won’t be left in the lurch during the ski tours in the Nockberge either: we can be reached via our hotline 7 days a week from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. and can solve almost any problem.

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In addition to the online platform, hikers also have their own trail information and booking center at their disposal! © Klaus Dapra

Of course, you also need ski touring experience for the Nockberge Trail and sufficient knowledge of how to deal with the danger of avalanches. It’s a ski crossing like the Haute Route – albeit much less demanding. If you are not sure whether you have enough experience or if you just want to spend very relaxed ski touring days, you can book a state-certified ski guide at Bookyourtrail.com or one of the fixed appointments with a guide as a guided ski tour.

So off to the Wilderness & Wellness Skitouren Traverse – with the support of the competent and experienced Bookyourtrail.com team!

Autor

Stefan
Lieb-Lind

As an environmental systems scientist and state-certified mountain and ski guide, the native Bavarian ideally combines competence and passion for his great love, the mountains. Recognized mountain book author and first climber of daring routes in rock and ice.

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