What can you expect?
Two eventful days on the mountain with the best opportunity to test the latest touring skis and bindings from Völkl and Marker on tour. Ortovox will ensure your safety and provide you with avalanche equipment for the entire weekend, including the new AVABAG LiTRIC electronic avalanche backpack.
The prize includes an overnight stay in the Naturfreundehaus Sonnblick and an overnight stay in the Zittelhaus on the Hohe Sonnblick including half board. Depending on the weather and avalanche situation, you will climb the Hohe Sonnblick with two certified mountain guides and freeride pro athlete Nadine Wallner and spend the night in the Zittelhaus refuge at the summit at 3,106 m. On the second day, you will ski down to the Zirmsee in Carinthia and then conquer another ski tour classic, the 3,254 m high Hocharn.
The motto of the days is "Magic Moments" and "Safe on the mountain". Our mountain guides will give you practical tips and tricks on how to move safely in open terrain, how to assess the avalanche situation on site using the avalanche report and which ascent and descent route you should choose. Nadine Wallner will tell exciting stories from her career as a freeride pro and swing down the mountain with you.
ORTOVOX will provide you with the complete ORTOVOX safety equipment on loan for these days: Avalanche transceiver, shovel, probe and an AVABAG LiTRIC backpack, which you can test extensively on both days.
VÖLKL and MARKER will provide you with the latest touring skis and bindings on loan for two days, suitable for all conditions and the best ascent and descent performance on the mountain.
What do you need to bring?
You will be moving in open, alpine terrain. Safe handling of your ski touring equipment and a fitness level of 5-6 hours or 1,600 m ascent/descent is a prerequisite. You should also be able to ski safely in all types of snow and on slopes of 30-35 degrees. You must carry your own overnight luggage for one night to and from the Zittelhaus on the Hohe Sonnblick in your touring rucksack.
When?
The weekend takes place from March 22-24, 2024. Depending on the weather and avalanche conditions, it will be decided whether the tour to the Hohe Sonnblick and Hocharn is possible. Otherwise an alternative tour will be planned.
Where?
The meeting point is on friday afternoon at our flagship store in Kaprun. Here you will receive your test equipment from Ortovox, Völkl and Marker on request and the equipment will be perfectly adapted to you. Afterwards, you will drive together to Rauris / Kolm Saigurn to the Lenzanger parking lot, from where you will make a short ascent to the Naturfreundehaus. You will end the evening with a cozy dinner and some insights into avalanche training and how to use your avalanche equipment. On Saturday you will then climb the Hohe Sonnblick and spend the night at the refuge on the summit.
Required equipment:
- Touring skis with skins, touring ski boots + poles
(Test equipment from Völkl and Marker available free of charge) - Helmet recommended
- Ski goggles and/or sunglasses
- Crampons recommended (included in the test equipment)
- Winter clothing for ski mountaineering (trousers, jacket, overjacket, change of clothes, hood, headband, gloves, warm functional underwear depending on the weather)
- Avalanche kit (avalanche transceiver, probe, shovel) - provided free of charge by ORTOVOX
- Hut sleeping bag for the night
- Change of underwear
- Sufficient food (muesli bar, banana, tea, juice, etc.)
Contest: #BRÜNDLFANSonTOUR with Völkl Freeride Pro Nadine Wallner and Ortovox
3 x 2 people can win an overnight stay at the Naturfreundehaus Sonnblickbasis, an overnight stay at the Zittelhaus on the Hoher Sonnblick including half board from 22.03.-24.03.24 and a two-day ski tour to the Hoher Sonnblick and Hocharn with state-certified mountain guides and pro athlete Nadine Wallner including rental test equipment from Ortovox, Völkl and Marker.
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Participation conditions for prize contest "BRÜNDLFANSonTOUR"
The competition "#BRÜNDLFANSonTour" is organized by Sport Bründl Gesellschaft m.b.H., Nikolaus-Gassner-Straße 4, 5710 Kaprun.
The competition will take place from 12.01. - 19.01.2024. To take part in the competition, participants must answer the competition question on bruendl.at correctly. One entry per person is possible.
Participation in the competition is free of charge and independent of the purchase of goods.
The prize draw is a weekend in Kolm Saigurn with Bründl Sports and its partners Ortovox and Völkl. 3 x 2 people can climb the Hohe Sonnblick and the Hocharn on touring skis together with two state-certified mountain guides. Included is one overnight stay in the Naturfreundehaus Sonnblickbasis incl. half board and one overnight stay in the Zittelhaus on the Hohe Sonnblick incl. half board. Ortovox provides avalanche transceiver, shovel, probe and an AVABAG LiTRIC and Völkl touring skis incl. touring bindings on loan free of charge. The weekend takes place from 22. to 24.03.2024. In the event of bad weather or poor conditions, the tour planning will be adjusted.
Minimum requirement: 5-6 hours of fitness, approx. 1,600 m ascent and descent, safe skiing in all types of snow and 30-35 degree descent should be mastered.
Required equipment:
- Touring skis with skins (provided on loan)
- touring ski boots
- ski poles
- Headgear (headband, cap)
- Helmet is recommended
- Ski goggles and/or sunglasses
- Crampons reommended (included with the test touring skis)
- Winter clothing for ski mountaineering (trousers, jacket, overjacket, change of clothes, first aid kit, hat, gloves, warm underwear depending on the weather)
- Sufficient food (e.g. muesli bar, banana, apple, etc.)
- Drinks (tea, juice, water, etc.)
- Avalanche kit (avalanche transceiver, probe, shovel) - will be provided on loan
- Hut sleeping bag
- Change of underwear
The winners will be selected at random by the organizer from all correct answers and complete registrations.
The draw and drawing of all winners will take place on 22.01.2024. The winners will be notified by email within 1 working day of the draw. If the winner does not respond within 5 days of receiving notification of the prize, the prize will be forfeited without substitution and a replacement winner will be drawn.
Persons over the age of 16 are eligible to participate. Employees of Sport Bründl Gesellschaft m.b.H and their family members are excluded from participation.
No cash redemption and no transfer of prizes possible. Legal recourse is excluded. The organizer reserves the right to exclude participants from the competition or to cancel and reclaim a prize without substitution if the competition is influenced or attempted to be influenced by unfair means (e.g. incorrect, incomplete, misleading information or multiple entries, unless this is permitted separately). The participant shall have no claims against the organizer as a result.
The place of jurisdiction is Salzburg, as far as legally permissible. Austrian law shall apply.
Should individual provisions of the conditions of participation be or become invalid, the validity of the remaining conditions of participation shall remain unaffected. They shall be replaced by an appropriate provision that comes closest to the economic purpose of the invalid provision.
The organizer reserves the right to change the conditions of participation at any time or to interrupt or terminate the competition or the draw in whole or in part for good cause without prior notice (e.g. in the event of technical errors, misuse).
Data protection:
The personal data voluntarily provided by participants when answering the questions (title, first name and surname, email address, telephone number) will be processed for the purposes of running the competition, notifying the winner and delivering the prize.
Photos will be taken during the excursion. After the event, participants will receive a link to the photos as a souvenir. The photos will also be taken for internal documentation and reporting purposes. These photos and the first names of the winners as well as details of the experience days will be published on the website of the organizer, Ortovox, Völkl and Marker, as well as on the social media channels Instagram and Facebook in the course of reporting on the competition and the redemption of the prize. The organizer has a legitimate interest in the processing of the data for this purpose within the meaning of Art 6 para 1 lit f GDPR. Should other data of the participant be used in addition to the photographs and the first name, this will only be done with the separate consent of the participant.
Further information on the type and scope of data processing can be found in the data protection information of Sport Bründl Gesellschaft m.b.H., which can be accessed online at any time at https://www.bruendl.at/de/datenschutz.