Start Finish km markers
⛷️
Skiing route · 🇦🇹 Innsbruck, Austria

Nordkette Skitour

Expert ★ 4.7 (535 ratings) 6,420 uses Point to point 71 heat

Skin up from the valley, ride the north face down. Check the avalanche report — this line bites.

SkitourAlpineAvalanche zone
Distance14.2km
Elevation gain1400m
Est. time3h 30m
Avg speed4.1km/h
Surface: Snow Max grade: +12.9% at 9.5 km High point: 1442 m
Elevation profile

One way up, and it never really eases

14.2 km · 1400 m
Total gain+1400 m
High point1442 m
Low point204 m
Steepest+12.9%
Avg grade9.9%
0.02.85.78.511.414.2
km
<−3% −3 to −1% Flat 1–4% 4–8% 8%+

Skin up in the dark, ride the north face at sunrise, be at work by nine. Beacon, shovel, probe — and someone who knows how to use them.

Turn by turn · 8 steps

Directions

  1. 1

    Skin up from the Hungerburg valley station. First 2 km is a groomed access track at 12% — get your kick turns sorted here where it is safe.

    ≈ 1.8 km
  2. 2

    Leave the piste at 2.4 km and follow the skin track north-west. Steeper now, 18–22%, and it stays that way for a while.

    ≈ 3.5 km
  3. 3

    Kick-turn section between 4 km and 6 km. Forty of them. There is no elegant way through this.

    ≈ 5.3 km
  4. 4

    Traverse under the north face at 7 km. Check the slope above you before you commit — this is the section that slides.

    ≈ 7.1 km
  5. 5

    Final climb to the ridge at 8.4 km. Exposed, windy, and the point at which you find out if your layering was right.

    ≈ 8.9 km
  6. 6

    Summit ridge at 9 km, 1,400 m gained. Transition somewhere sheltered; hands stop working fast up here.

    ≈ 10.6 km
  7. 7

    Descend the north face. Powder above 1,800 m, wind-crust below — ski the fall line and trust the first turn.

    ≈ 12.4 km
  8. 8

    Rejoin the valley track at 12.8 km and cruise the last 1.4 km back to the station.

    ≈ 14.2 km
0 segments on this route

Segments

All segments

No segments on this route yet.
Be the first — create one from any activity here.

Install StrideXTrack offline, get live GPS & watch sync.