Extreme Canyoning Tour — Middle Auerklamm

Experiences full of adrenaline in Tyrol's most beautiful gorge.

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For whom:

Advanced canyoneers who love water and altitude

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Highlights:

Highest abseiling point 40 meters

Jumps of up to 15 meters possible

Slides up to 13 meters high and 15 meters long are possible

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Special features of the tour:

We fly over the flying fox into the gorge. The many slides, jumps and abseiling sites challenge everyone of us. The satisfaction factor of no gorge is as high as on this tour. Anyone who passes this has experienced a lot!

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At our base station (located 2 km down the valley in Mötztal), we are dressed in a special 5mm neoprene canyoning suit, helmet, hiking boots and a seatbelt. Take the bus up to Ötzerau. A narrow path takes us to the start of the Mittlere Auerklamm gorge after 10 minutes. The state-certified canyoning guide then explains and shows participants the correct behavior when canyoning during a detailed safety briefing.

It descends into the gorge via a 15 m high draining point. Once at the bottom, we climb to an overhanging rock band. Here, the competitors are abseiled down into a shimmering green water basin about 10 m deep. Some of these natural “bathtubs” must now be floated before we stand in the gorge just below the Wolf Bridge. One of the highlights of this tour awaits us here: An approximately 15 m high, polished natural rock slide! Although the exact posture when sliding is explained and assured that the pool below is deep enough, some players still get dry mouth before they defeat the inner bastard and get started (but this passage can also be tackled by abseiling). Swimming, we come to the next combination: 5 m abseiling into a winding maze and then a 4 m slide into a wide-opening and shallow rock pool. There is also an emergency exit here. This is followed by the 3-person slide combination: a 7 m, a 3 m and an 8 m deep slide in sanded rock with sufficient water depth so that you have no contact with the ground.

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Now the team has the absolute kick or even the biggest challenge ahead: The highest abseiling point on our tours, 45 m deep in the Auerklamm gorge. For the first time, you can once again see the green Ötztal valley below. It is tight at this stand, and the guide quickly drops one participant after the other down the rope. Adventurers climb down oversized rock slabs to a wonderful slide. The rock slide of approx. 5 to 6 m washed out by the water is either slipped or abseiled down. This is followed by a partially overhanging abseiler of approx. 6 m. It continues down a smaller slope through the gorge using a fixed rope. The vertical 10-12 m abseiler next to the waterfall again costs a lot of effort, because here participants get a tremendous impression of the wildness of this gorge.

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A little further down the valley, we stop at a nice barbecue area. The canyoning guide prepares Campfire food with drinks too. Attention! Grilling is only available on special request!

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After a long lunch break, the participants set off to tackle the last third of the tour. Sure-footed walking is required before we reach the next obstacle. A breathtaking, partly overhanging slide takes you into a pool about 7-8 m deep (this area is either slid or abseiled). At the next lead, which opposes the participants, the first meters are abseiled down, the last 3-4 m jumped. With a safe 3-person chainstand, you now abseile down a rock grotto, from there you jump about 6 m into the foaming rock whirlpool. Thanks to the buoyancy of the canyoning suit, you stay on the water surface with almost no swimming movement, so that you can loosen the rope in peace and swim to the shore. An angled rock cataract about 10 m high is then rappelled with a fixed rope. Now it's getting really impressive: abseiling into the cathedral, a house-high, dark dome of rock honed over millions of years. The trail continues over an anchored steel cable. The team is abseiled at lofty heights over a thunderous narrow cleat passage foaming with white spray. This is the absolute highlight of this tour: an approx. 10 m jump into an approximately 10 m deep dark rock gums (but this passage can also be completed by abseiling). And another 5 m high jump. Over large boulders and two smaller abseiling points, we come to the end and end of this truly unique and breathtaking tour — one of the most beautiful in Tyrol for us! After a 5-minute walk, we reach our base; hot showers and sauna await. Finally, participants receive a certificate of remembrance from their canyoning guide.

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This is where we finish these demanding things for body and mind Extreme canyoning tour: the Middle & Lower Auerklamm.

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Best time:

‍May to October

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Total tour duration:

approx. 6-8 hours

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Walking time of the gorge:

approx. 5-7 hours