Deep Powder At The Tauplitz. Our Japan Experience

Recently, Japan has been receiving growing attention from powder hounds all over the world. Indeed, Japan offers incredible possibilities for tree-skiing in bottomless powder. Due to its specific climate (the pacific ocean is just around every corner!) the snow is accumulating continuously rebuilding virgin slopes virtually every night. At least so goes the saying. A growing flood of incredible amazing videos is proofing this hype.

I have never been in Japan. However, this winter I’ve had my personal Japan-like experience, just some 200km west of Vienna. How comes that? In February the European gods of snow started to deliver and they delivered big time. Storms rolled in from the Northwest virtually nuking non-stop. What a crazy dump. And we happened to be just in the centre. Thus, the combination of the picturesque little Salzkammergut village of Altaussee with tons of powdery snow in the trees around the Tauplitzalm gave me my own personal Japan-experience.

Many thanks to Sabine, Kathi and Gerrit for their kind hospitality in their cosy little refuge in Altaussee, which was a perfect base-camp for hunting the fresh powder.