Following fresh snow in the week and with a sunny weekend forecast, Eric and I decided to head to the Vorarlberg for a weekend of ski touring. As we had both had busy weeks with business travel and long days, we set off from Munich relatively late, leaving at around 8am. This only left time for a relatively short ski tour and after some planning we decided to head to the Zafernhorn in the Bregenzerwald.
The tour started easily up a Forststraße, from which we emerged with stunning views at a beautifully located hut. From there we continued up towards the summit with no particular difficulties, there was one steeper section where we had to remove our skis and walk up, but otherwise it was fairly straight forwards.
When we set off there was no sign of an inversion, but as time progressed it moved slowly up the valley and provided a wonderful view. When we got to the summit there were a number of other teams there, enjoying lunch, but we just quickly took some photos and headed back down, not wanting the snow to become any wetter. After my last two tours where the summit was very unpleasant, it was quite nice to be able to enjoy it in a light breeze and warm sunny temperatures.
The descent was lovely down untracked snow, it was just a shame we were so late in the day as it was starting to become fairly wet, had we been able to start the tour early I am sure the descent would have been absolutely fantastic. Nonetheless it was still really enjoyable and all too soon we were at the beautifully situated hut at the start of the descent back down the Forststraße and into the inversion layer.
We were soon back at the car after a really fantastic tour, fantastic views, great descent and good snow.
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