Open since November 15, 2024 • Skiing at over 3,000 m • Austria's largest glacier • 4 ski areas • Alpine pastures and mountain lakes • Stubai High Trail • Schlick 2000 Bike Park
At the Bikepark & Bergbahn St. Johann • only 20 minutes to Kitzbühel • Hiking and climbing at the Wilder Kaiser • SuperSki Card ski pass with 2,750 km of slopes
AREA 47 • 1,600 km of hiking trails • 870 km of mountain bike routes • WIDIVERSUM • Ötzi Village • Umhausen Birds of Prey Park • Stuibenfall
1,300 km of bike tours • Top bike destination in the Alps • Hiking & climbing • 179 lifts / 508 km of slopes • Only 600 m to the Hochzillertal ski area • 10 min to the Zillertal Arena
In town: St. Kathrein Thermal Spa & Römerbad • 15 minutes from the most beautiful bathing lakes in Carinthia • incl. Sunshine Card • September & October including Carinthia Card with free cable car & more
At the Alpspitzbahn in Nesselwang with summer tobogganing & Alpspitzkick • only 20 minutes to the royal castles • slopes, ski school, children's ski area & daily night skiing directly at the hotel
Great location in the Kuhflucht nature and recreation park with views of the Zugspitze and Alpspitze • 5km to Garmisch-Partenkirchen • Eibsee • Partnachklamm • Near the hotel: heated outdoor pool, sports center
Piz Buin, Silvretta-Montafon with 300km of ski slopes • Silvretta High Alpine Road • directly at the Mountain Beach, 270km of bike trails
Ideal location at the valley station of the Hinterstoder cable car • Just a few steps from the village center • Active Card: 40 free and 20 bonus services daily
Germany's southernmost holiday resort • perfect starting point for mountain hikes and bike tours • 200 km of hiking trails at all altitudes • Germany's largest and highest ski area
A few minutes from the famous Königssee • Berchtesgaden National Park • Watzmann • Kehlsteinhaus • Berchtesgaden Salt Mine • Outdoor pool only 200 m away • NEW: Jenner cable car
Three former colleagues: Sascha, Kristian, and Nico share a passion: cycling. All of them have been doing it for years in various forms:
Kristian has been racing semi-professionally in MTB marathon races for almost a decade.
For Nico, going downhill on the Enduro is never fast enough, and Sascha simply enjoys long rides on the bike.
That means three different ways of cycling, which have increasingly developed in the same direction on joint tours.
Sascha & Nico have already cycled across the Alps four times together – so they're experienced Transalps.
So the guys immediately knew: "If we cycle from Allgäu to Kitzbühel across the Alps, from Explorer Hotel to Explorer Hotel, it will be the
"Transexplorer"."
A new tour was then planned for 2023 – Kristian was immediately signed up to discover bikepacking for himself this way.
Already at a joint MTB weekend with Kristian and Nico in July 2022 in the Allgäu
With an overnight stay at the Explorer Hotel, Nico was so Explorer-infected that he took Sascha's nose out and Sascha absolutely had to go to the hotel too.
The rest is quickly told:
Pizza, 3-4 beers, 2 laptops, the Explorer homepage, Komoot, and voila, our Transexplorer for this summer was ready.
It starts on June 18, 2023!
Sascha and Kristian start by train in Wörsdorf (Idstein), Nico from Mainz to Kempten. From there, a relaxed warm-up for the first few kilometers to Oberstdorf.
Stage 1: From Oberstdorf through the Tannheimer Valley to Garmisch. (99 km / 1110 m elevation gain)
Stage 2: From Garmisch, a day trip around Lake Walchensee (75 km / 660 m elevation gain)
Stage 3: From Garmisch, a trip to Zillertal (105 km / 990 m elevation gain)
Stage 4: From Zillertal, a trip to Kitzbühel (83.5 km / 530 m elevation gain)
Stage 5: Kitzbühel to Kufstein and then by train back to Mainz and the Taunus Mountains (38 km / 450 m elevation gain)
In total, the trio plans to cycle around 450 km and gain approximately 4,000 m elevation gain.
You can find all tour descriptions here:
| "Stage" 1":https://www.explorer-hotels.com/tourenplaner/transexplorer-etappe-1-8423.html | Stage 2 | Stage 3 | Stage 4 | "Stage Stage 5: https://www.explorer-hotels.com/tourenplaner/transexplorer-mit-dem-gravelbike-vom-zillertal-nach-stjohann-8431.html | Stage 6: https://www.explorer-hotels.com/tourenplaner/transexplorer-vom-explorer-hotel-kitzbuehel-bis-nach-kufstein-mit-dem-bike-6-8432.html |
Sascha is the one who, at 35, had the dream of cycling across the Alps one day. Back then, he was a few kilos heavier and bought his first mountain bike and began training more or less intensively. It took another seven years, but after intensive planning and various training rides in the Taunus mountains, he finally set off from Garmisch towards Lake Garda at the end of May 2016. The highlight was the Timmelsjoch Pass. Inspired by this experience, further tours through the Alps followed in the years that followed. For the past two years, he has been climbing the mountains on his gravel bike. Most recently, he completed the Lake Constance-Lake Como-Lake Constance loop, with highlights such as the Silvretta High Alpine Road.
Kristian is basically the "Oberstdorfer" for us, as he has been going to Oberstdorf in the Allgäu 2-3 times every year since he was 18.
His love for the southernmost part of Germany not only gets under his skin (the Rubihorn adorns his forearm), he also knows almost every trail that can be ridden here on a mountain bike. He spends most of his time outside with his wife and dog, preferably in the mountains. After almost 15 years of MTB marathon racing and countless participations in various races, whether MTB or road bike, his passion for recreational cycling is slowly returning. Nevertheless, it can always happen spontaneously that he has a starting number on his handlebars again. Like recently at the Radrace 120 in Sonthofen.
Nico rediscovered cycling about 8 years ago, after his heart actually belonged to snowboarding. Since then, he has been riding more and more kilometers each year. This year it should be 8000 km. Since Sascha and Nico crossed the Alps in 2016, the two have already mastered several adventures on the bike: Timmelsjoch, Lake Garda Dachstein circuit, Brenner border ridge... The list is getting longer and longer.
At first, Nico only rode his mountain bike, and also enjoyed going to bike parks. But since 2019, he has been gripped by gravel bike fever.
The camp can only be booked as an add-on to a family overnight stay. Childcare is only available during the specified times. A group ride on Sunday is requested.
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