Grieskogel is a medium sized ski peak in the western Stubai Alps, in the Larstiger mountains between Sellrain and Hochstubai. You reach it for backcountry skiing via the usual network of roads you find in this area, in this case reminding me of spring skiing on Independence Pass back in Colorado. I’d hooked up for today’s trip with Manfred Barthel, the Austrian alpinist elder I’ve come to know over the past few years. Manfred continues to amaze me with his skill and endurance, not to mention his amazing knowledge of the Alps. He seems to have a sixth sense of where the snow is good, the avy danger lower, or the
Fritz Barthel
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Bavarian Classic backcountry skiing trip report — Alpspitze climbed and skied from Kreuzeck Hutte.
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When I mentioned to my Italian friend Paolo how G3 had been keeping their binding secret, and were releasing the new grabber via a global conference call, he said “what do they think this is, a new Ferrari or something?…
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We’ll, the light wasn’t all bad. And even though I’d mistakenly brought someone else’s boots I could still ski (more on that below). The day started bluebird but became “inside the egg” toward the afternoon. Fritz had a plan to…
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Backcountry skiing in Austria, you’d better be fast and fit and ready for some really good skiers, fun stuff.
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But in the interest of letting WildSnow’s daddy Lou Dawson continue to speak we figured it was time to publish this mini-profile. We cooked this up last year. It was done with a Dynafit emphasis for them to possibly publish. That didn’t happen, so we present it here. Apologies for the Dynafit bias.