Pure Winter Action on the Ski Tour Up the Birnhorn

The sparkling white sea of the Alps before your eyes, the fresh winter air in your nose and endless feelings of happiness throughout your whole body – this is what awaits you on the snow-covered Birnhorn once you have covered the route up the highest of the Leoganger Steinberge.

The ski tour up the Birnhorn makes for unforgettable action experiences on your ski holiday in Leogang. If you, too, are full of enthusiasm for alpine sports and love the adrenaline in the mountains, climbing the summit at an altitude of 2,634 m is definitely one of the ultimate winter highlights.

The mountain tour up the Birnhorn is not only a popular excursion for alpine and climbing professionals in summer – in winter, too, many motivated winter sports fans are drawn on skis to the highest peak of the Leoganger Steinberge. So what awaits you on the way up the Birnhorn?

With your skis strapped on, you start the tour up the Birnhorn through a long, dense belt of forest – here you can enjoy the view of snow-covered trees and let yourself be enchanted by the idyllic surroundings. Little by little, the forest thins out and leads you into the huge Ebersbergkar, where breathtaking, snow-covered slopes open up – the anticipation of the descent later on grows.

Before that, however, the skis have to be taken off and replaced with good crampons – after all, the grand finale of the tour is still to come. With your skis on your back, you set off on foot for the final section to the Birnhorn. The challenging ascent, which also calls for some climbing skills, is largely secured with steel cables. Once at the top, it's time to: take a deep breath, be proud and look forward to the upcoming descent!

It is not without reason that the ski tour up the Birnhorn is given the difficulty level "difficult" on numerous hiking platforms – because the last section to the summit in particular is quite demanding. Especially with hard snow or icy patches, things can quickly become dangerous here and there.

So if you would like to climb the Birnhorn as part of a ski tour, you should not only have good fitness and sufficient alpine and climbing experience, but above all strong nerves. Then nothing stands in the way of a successful winter tour!

The ski tour up the Birnhorn is just one of many ways to add an extra portion of action to your winter holiday in Leogang. From fast runs down the slopes to exciting tobogganing adventures and enchanting snowshoe hikes, the experiences here in the Salzburger Land pull out all the stops.

On a holiday at the Naturresort Puradies, the wonderful winter landscape lies quite literally at your feet. From the hotel on the slopes, you glide on your skis straight to the Steinbergbahn Leogang, which takes you into the Skicircus Saalbach Hinterglemm Leogang Fieberbrunn. This puts you right at the source of one of the largest ski areas in Europe, where you can enjoy the finest ski-in/ski-out.

Whether after the action-packed ski tour up the Birnhorn, after carefree fun on the slopes in the Skicircus Saalbach Hinterglemm Leogang Fieberbrunn or after a successful tobogganing run through the snow-covered winter landscape – at the end of the day at the Naturresort Puradies, it's time to: arrive and enjoy.

Here, in the midst of the Salzburg mountains, you can look forward to an extensive relaxation programme at the 4*S hotel or in your own chalet in Leogang. Soothing wellness experiences await you, as well as the finest cuisine with ingredients from, among others, the hotel's own Embachhof organic farm and selected regional partner businesses.

We look forward to your non-binding enquiry!