Tag: German Alpine Club
High up: Lectures by the Alpine Club – Ebersberg
In the Ebersberg-Grafing section of the German Alpine Association, there are lecture evenings again between January and March. Uschi and Martin Rau will kick things off on January 19th. The…
Zugspitze: Söder visits the winter – Bavaria
The avalanche probe was already a good meter in the snow when it encountered the resistance it was hoping for. Its tip finally hit Sepp Hümmer’s body there under the…
Bavarian Alps: shaking at the hut – Bavaria
The mountains all around are completely white, the sky is blue, and on the roof there is at least half a meter of snow glistening in the sun, heavy and…
Heating costs: tremors in the hut – Bavaria
The mountains all around are completely white, the sky is blue, and on the roof there is at least half a meter of snow glistening in the sun, heavy and…
Cable car construction: more money, more people, more problems – Bavaria
It was a farewell with melancholy and brass band music: Last Sunday, the people of Ruhpolding climbed into one of the black and gray gondolas for the last time to…
Alpine Club reports decrease in mountain accidents – Bavaria
Despite the rush to the mountains, the German Alpine Association (DAV) recorded significantly fewer mountain accidents among its members last year than in previous years. The number fell to 669…
For the protection of Watzmann and Co: 50 years Bavarian Alpine plan – Bavaria
It was in the second half of the 1960s when the municipalities of Ramsau and Berchtesgaden were about to build a cable car to the Watzmann. Local politicians didn’t care…
Virtual patrols: Michael Waldhauser is a digital ranger – Bavaria
Drone flights and campfires. Bathers in sheltered waters. Hikers and cyclists who have come across a GPS track that takes them off marked paths. Michael Waldhauser knows of many violations…
Hiking on the Jochberg: “We don’t want to build a motorway up there” – Starnberg
From his terrace in Kochel, Max Lantenhammer can look across to the Jochberg, probably Munich’s most popular local mountain. More than 100,000 people climb it every year, and the way…
Why more people are dying in Bavaria’s mountains – Bavaria
It was only a few days ago that an 81-year-old woman fell 30 meters down a mountainside during a mountain hike towards the Gedererwand near Aschau in the Chiemgau. When…