Europa-Sportregion Zell am See-Kaprun - Freeriding: advertent abysmal snow in an adventuresome way

Freeriding is a chancy adventure. Guests of the Europa-Sportregion apprentice how to accord with the appropriate appearance of a cruise into abysmal crumb snow.Store this angel in big sizeWell-groomed snow on marked-out pistes: that is what attracts winter holidaymakers to the mountains. With their skis or boards below their feet, the admirers of the summits sweeten up their leisure time by accepted down slopes in arresting surroundings. But abounding of them are not annoyed with that affectionate of benumbed fun any more: they are analytic for new challenges - and they are award them at freeriding. For that purpose, they leave the safe pistes and adventure into the clear abysmal snow. However, a cruise into the alleged 'backcountry' care to be able-bodied able and accomplished for...

That is why the sports and contest agency of 'Programat' offers guided 'off-piste tours' for the visitors of the 'Europa-Sportregion Zell am See-Kaprun'. That way, organizer Volker Hölzl intends to accomplish due allowances for the new trend that leads abroad from accepted skiing and boarding appear a added adventuresome way of accomplishing these sports. The three-day blast advance is alleged 'The Freeride Experience'. It tries to accustom snow-hungry adventurers with both the allure and the risks they are apprenticed to appointment out in the open.

'Again and again, I am absolutely aghast at how little skiers and boarders apperceive about the risks they are demography if they leave the safe pistes', says Hölzl. The participants in his courses apperceive better. The accident of avalanches accompanies every individual cruise into the backcountry. It may sometimes be just a baby one - but it can never be absolutely disqualified out. For that reason, Hölzl and his aggregation of abundance guides, Nici Winterstein and Thomas Mayr, try to adapt their accuse for all eventualities.

From 11th January to 25th March, 2007, the leash offers tours through the still abortive areas of the 'Europa-Sportregion'. Alpine assurance training is the top antecedence here: the close has its own clandestine array seek acreage area freeriding novices are acquainted which the all-important equipment. Knowing absolutely how to use the probe, the shovel, and the analytic equipment, the alleged 'avalanche peep' (LVS), is an complete have to in case of an emergency.

Guests can book the freeride amalgamation in Zell am See-Kaprun from 249 euros, including the all-important accessories (consisting of skis, haversack with LVS, probe, shovel, and poles). Beginners and accomplished freeriders are disconnected up into groups of seven humans maximum, which guarantees for acquirements the capital techniques for a cruise into abysmal snow the quickest accessible way. Hölzl knows, 'people who administer to do a alongside about-face on a atramentous piste are acceptable abundant to ride on abysmal snow!'

More advice on 'The Freeride Experience' can be begin at www.freeride-experience.at. All important advice on the 'Europa-Sportregion Zell am See-Kaprun' is aswell online at www.europasportregion.info.

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General Information:
With its 14,000 beds and two actor brief stays a year, the 'Europa-Sportregion Zell am See-Kaprun' is one of the a lot of important anniversary regions in Austria. More than 40 activities like rafting, golf, and walking are offered during the summer months. In the algid division of the year rides in horse-drawn sleighs or snowshoe walks accommodate a acceptable change. 56 armchair lifts and cable cars crop skiers to blubbery crumb snow on 132 kilometres of pistes - snowboarders acquisition an ideal area at the Snowpark on the berg plateau of Kitzsteinhorn, 2,600 metres aloft sea-level. Here, skiing and snowboarding is accessible even in summer. Moreover, the acclaimed German publishing abode of 'Falk Verlag' has called Zell am See and Kaprun as the a lot of family-friendly anniversary arena in Europe.