kempfi

i'm from vienna/austria. this trail is in the "hohe wand" massive, which is maybe 60km off vienna. the surrounding is absolutely flat. not much of a "typical" alpine area there. you have a 250m high wall that has a lenght of maybe 5km. there are hundreds or maybe thousands of climbing routes in the wall i used to rock climb there for years. the iron thing in the beginning of the video is called "sky walk" which is a visitor plannform where no-sport people can look down and watch the ground, wall and climbers. the top of the wall is a hughe grass and wood plateau. from bottom to top you can ride on a road made of asphalt. so you don't need a gondola or ride a difficult way up. the trail itself is usually used by feed and pretty steep in most sections. personally, i've never seen someone riding down there on a bike. no question, it's a difficult, technical track and for me it wouldn't be fun to ride down there (and i'm not a very good mtb rider), but everyone as he/she prefers... it definititly does not make any sense to go down there by ski. the altitude of the top is maybe at 800m and in that part of the country you won't find metres of snow. cheers