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Taubenstein study shows: Tourers need more education

2020-12-06T00:30:20.477Z


Ski touring is becoming more and more popular as a leisure sport - especially because of the corona-related ski lockdown. But the trend sport also harms the environment - the animal world in particular feels it. A study has now shown how large the scale is.


Ski touring is becoming more and more popular as a leisure sport - especially because of the corona-related ski lockdown.

But the trend sport also harms the environment - the animal world in particular feels it. A study has now shown how large the scale is.

Spitzingsee

- “My mountain guide colleagues and I have noticed that a lot of unskilled people are out and about with little or little knowledge.

The survey confirms our many years of experience. ”With his impressions, Avalanche Camp Bavaria founder Alexander Römer spanned the field from the study“ Touring am Taubenstein ”, the results of which were presented on Friday and now provide well-founded data on the situation at Spitzingsee.

They are all the more explosive as one expects further expansion of the booming ski mountaineering due to the unforeseeable opening of the mountain railways.

In 2018, Römer had the foundation stone for a joint survey by the Chair for Economic Geography and Tourism Research of the Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) Munich, the German Alpine Association / Munich Section, Area Management Mangfall Mountains with the checkpoint for avalanche search devices (LVS) including information board at the entrance to the Untere Lochgraben , Alpine region Tegernsee Schliersee, Gästeinfo Schliersee and Avalanche Camp Bavaria.

From December 2018 until the lockdown in March, the touring frequency was determined at the checkpoints using infrared technology.

On peak days it was up to a thousand runs.

"You don't get information about closed areas"

In addition, students interviewed mountain athletes on 13 days.

Maximilian Witting (LMU) presented the “typology of ski tourers on the Taubenstein” derived from this.

He referred to a still large number of people who are barely, inadequately or never informed about the dangers in advance.

There were daily fluctuations in the use of avalanche equipment, which ski tourers often do without completely when the temperature rises.

Standard sources such as the DAV Snowcard for assessing the situation are hardly known.

Fewer and fewer people can read maps

“Most of them rarely or never get information about closed areas.” For Florian Bossert, the Mangfall Mountains area manager in the Miesbach district, this is due to the lack of awareness.

In addition, there is an increasing lack of knowledge of how to read cards, which would save you from advancing into highly sensitive areas.

One must put even more emphasis on educating the tourers who move "in the bedrooms of the wild animals".

Every day and without a break.

Fear of enormous pressure on Rotwand

As the survey shows, winter sports enthusiasts wanted to go all the way to the last snow instead of switching to alternatives such as cycling.

The pressure on Sudelfeld and Spitzingsee will increase enormously.

Project manager Roman Ossner spoke of the Rotwand area as an absolute hotspot, which should not degenerate into a recreational area, but must be treated sensitively - especially the hour after sunrise and before sunset, when animals need rest to eat.

Before work and after work tours with 20 to 40 athletes each are critical.

If avalanche courses are not possible due to Corona, one should at least compensate for something with theory at home, appealed Römer and referred to the online courses that the Avalanche Camp Bavaria will be offering twice a week from mid-December.

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Source: merkur

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