Facts

• Individuelle Wandertipps und Tourenplanung für Bergtouren
  
  (German)

  Many footpaths in Austria and Germany are described on this website.

• List of mountains: all the hiking summits in Central Austria
  
  (German)

  Useful website to get an overview of the central Alps in Austria.

• Willkommen - alpinisten.info - Bergsteigen und Hochtouren in den Alpen
  
  (German)

  Fine list of hiking tours, in different degrees of difficulty, in the Alps. The site is focussed mainly on the Austrian and German Alps. The authors are speaking from own experience.

Reports

• Alpinum.at :: Forum für Bergsteiger
  
  (German)

  Active forum for mountaineers in Austria.

• Bergliste.at
  
  (German)

  A very impressive site, listing almost every thinkable summit in Austria, many being conquered by the author himself. Apart from his thorough fact recording, he likes statistics too. Check this site if you plan to climb any mountain in Austria

• Gerald Engelmaier
  
  (German)

  Gerald "collected" a large number of summits in his country. All these mountain tours are meticulously described, not too long, basic design, but usually complete with a map and a picture report.

• Hiking - Hribi.net
  

  Active hiking and climbing community, focussed on Slovenia, Croatia, and also Austria and Italy.

• Hiking and Mountains [hikr.org]
  

  Terrific website where everybody is invited to drop their own hiking reports. Great content, sublime interface, sympathetic people. The site mainly evolves around short walks and climbs in the Alpine countries, but trips from anywhere in the world can be found here.

• Homepage von Gerhard Hohenwarter - Bergtouren Schitouren
  
  (German)

  Gerhard Hohenwarter has made many tours in his homecountry Austria. He writes about them in his blog. It's easy to find a particular place or mountain.

• Picasa Web Albums - cm Bergfex
  

  A huge collection of photo albums, all about walking, mostly in Austria. Since most of the (more than 500) albums have a summit cross as index picture, the whole lot looks pretty fascinating.

• Picasa Web Albums - Helmut Seiringer
  

  In sheer number, CM Bergfax is the winner, with more than 500 picture albums about all types of Alpine walks on Picasaweb. In terms of quality, this collection of Helmut Seiringer is meeting up our expectations.

• Tourenbeschreibungen: Bergtouren Hochtouren Klettersteige Klettertouren Mountainbiketouren Schneeschuhtouren Skitouren Tourenplanung Trekking
  
  (German)

  A search engine for hiking reports. The main focus is on the Alps.

• www.DerHuettenWanderer.de
  
  (German)

  Der Hütten Wanderer has been hiking on many of Austria's popular hut-to-hut trails. So, this is a good place to feed yourself with new ideas and to find details on the trails.

• www.GipfelStuermerin.de
  
  (German)

  "Gipfelstürmerin" will keep you awake with her trail reports of Alpine high routes.

• Alpenoetzi's Homepage
  
  (German)

  "True freedom starts when you reach the summit and forgot the way you followed" is his slogan.

• Alpenyeti's Wanderblog
  
  (German)

  In his blog, you will often find little maps of the hikes and of course loads of pictures.

• Bautschi's Tourenbuch
  
  (German)

  Bautschi posts about dayhikes, mainly in Austria, and there is always a little map to show us the exact route.

• Bergfexing Harry
  
  (German)

  Harry started his diary in 2000.

• Bergi's Tourenbuch
  
  (German)

  In his blog, Bergi shares with us his mountain trips, ascents of many Austrian summits.

• Bernhard's Bergblog
  
  (German)

  The continuing story of a hiker and his friends and family. Since the blog entries are not tagged, it's a bit hit and run. But fine for tuning into the Alpine mood.

• Bin unterwegs
  
  (German)

  this means something like "On the road". Wilfried Haindl writes this popular blog on outdoor sports in Austria.

• Climb and Hike
  
  (German)

  Climb and Hike is a blog on which a group of people share their mountain experience.

• Der Familien-Wanderblog
  
  (German)

  The family hiking blog of Andreas Baumgartner.

• Eli's Outdoor-Blog
  
  (German)

  Eli blogs about her walks in Austria.

• gipfelsieg.com - Meine Bergtouren | Klettersteige | Wanderungen | Skitouren | Hochtouren in den Alpen - Home
  
  (German)

  Blog of Harald Maier-Kern, about his mountain trips in the (mainly Austrian) Alps.

• Homepage von Stefan Pfaffstaller - BERG&foto
  
  (German)

  Stefan is a real mountain enthusiast. His "Tourenbuch" is well organised.

• http://www.alpenyeti.at/
  
  (German)

  Find a huge number of peaks on this website, using the "Bergdatenbank". Another feature is Alpenyeti's personal gear advice, found under "Ausrüstung". More interesting however is Alpenyeti's wanderblog.

• In da Heh
  
  (German)

  This is the blog of Sabina Haslinger, where she writes about her hiking and snow shoe hiking tours in the Austrian mountains. She is more a nature lover than a summit bagger.

• Lampi's Berge
  
  (German)

  This is Lampi's blog about the Austrian mountains, not only hiking, but all other sports you can think of.

• nsales hiking
  

  Detailed, personally-tested hiking routes up European mountains

• Outdoor Weblog
  
  (German)

  Emanuel Pirker's (rather extreme) outdoor diary.

• Rainer Bergliste
  
  (German)

  First impression: a spreadsheet of tours the author made. Click on them, and this reveals some facts. The tours he made the last years are supplied with GPS waypoint files and picture series.

• Startseite - robertrosenkranz.at
  
  (German)

  Click on to the hikes in Robert Rosenkranz' tour book: they are well worth the visit.

• Startseite - Wizi´s & Brandi´s Bergwelt - Das Tourenportal
  
  (German)

  Wizi and Brandi put together a lot of information on all aspects of walking in the Austrian Alps. Their walks are not of the extreme nature many other bloggers like to display.

• Steffs Touren-Blog
  
  (German)

  You will find a long list of Austrian summit's climbed by Stefan in his blog.

• summits of the alps
  
  (German)

  HerrKlaus, as the author calls himself, writes short stories about the Austrian mountains he climbs. The hikes are not too difficult usually. The different areas are grouped together, so it's easy to find your way. Very convenient is his clear mountain safety section, allthough it is written in German, and alas! the Google translation into English is not very well.

• Tourenbuch Startseite
  
  (German)

  Peter's Tourenbuch, or Hiking Log. Most of the time, he hikes in Austria. Check out his "Read me" section to find a real old Tourenbuch from the sixties!

• Willkommen bei www.alpenraether.de
  
  (German)

  Family Räther did a lot of hiking in the Alps (with kid and dogs). Check out their tour descriptions.

• Wolfs Berge Blog
  
  (German)

  Wolfs blog is very readable: in every story the pictures read as a book. He likes mountain tours as well as country walks.

• www.riesner.at
  
  (German)

  Markus Keuschnigs tours and expeditions in the Austrian Alps and some abroad.

• Walter's Berglist
  
  (German)

  A huge list of climbs and tours, from the seventies onwards. There is not much of information that we could use, however.

Guides and maps

• AMAP Austria
  
  (German)

  Online topographical map - every detail.

Lodging

• Deutscher Alpenverein Huts
  
  (German)

  Excellent website by the German Alpine Club with huts in Austria and in the German and Italian Alps.

• Oesterreichischer Alpenverein Huts
  

  Huts database by the Austrian Alpine Association.

Organisations

• Österreichischer Touristenklub
  
  (German)

  One of Austria's Alpine Organisations, and also responsible for the E-paths in Austria.

• Naturfreunde Bundesorganisation
  
  (German)

  The Austrian Branch of the Naturfreunde organisation. They cooperate in the maintenance of the E-paths in Austria.

• Oesterreichischer Alpenverein Sektion Weitwanderer
  
  (German)

  Austrian Alpine Association, dept. Long Distance Walkers, with everything you need to know about long distance hiking in Austria.They offer information on the European Long Distance Paths too.

• Verband Alpiner Vereine Österreichs
  
  (German)

  This is the umbrella organisation of the different hiking and tourist organisations in Austria.

Tour operators

GPS

Other

• Startseite - Forum Gipfeltreffen
  
  (German)

  Active forum for hiking and other mountain sports in Austria.

• Austrian Avalanche Warnings
  
  (German)

  Check this when planning to hike in the Austrian mountains.

• Österreichischer Alpenverein - Wetterdienst
  
  (German)

  Weather forecast for the Austrian Alps.

• www.BERGNEWS.com – Neues aus den Bergen
  
  (German)

  Alpine portal, predominantly focussing on Austria.