Otztal Ski touring
We met up in the small Austrian village of Vent for the start of a Ski Club of Great Britain week we started by skinning into the Martin Busch hut which is about 3 hours after settling in we practiced avalanche transceiver work so everyone was up to speed ready for the week ahead. The forecast was mixed so we decided to take each day as it came. On Monday we climbed the Hochlabkogel which would be a perfect ski peak if we could have seen it on Tuesday we climbed almost to the top of the Kreuz Spitz but were beaten back by strong winds. The weather on Wednesday was truly appalling but we managed to fight our way to the Similuan hut things were much better the next day for a traverse of the Hochlab Joch and a fantastic ski descent in powder snow to the Hoch Joch Hospiz. We finished the week traversing the Mittel Gulsar Spitz and descending to Vent via the Vernacht hut in extremely flat light.