Canyoning Total Extreme

Tyrol's most beautiful gorge demands everything from you!

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For whom:

FLocation-stepping canyoners 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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First, every participant at our base station (located 2 km down the valley in Ötztal) is dressed in a special 5mm neoprene canyoning suit, helmet, hiking boots and a seatbelt. Our minibuses take you up to the top of Ötzerau. At the entrance to the gorge, the state-certified canyoning guide explains and shows participants the correct behavior when canyoning during a detailed safety briefing.

Here we go: We climb over the weir and after a few minutes reach the first slope, which is usually climbed down. We overcome the following rocky obstacle by shimmering our way down 4 m into the pool below using a fixed rope. Following the course of the river, it then goes a longer route through rough terrain, over large boulders and alluvial wood. Further downhill, you descend sideways from a tree into a pool about 5m deep. Now the gorge is getting pretty tight, delicately strung people are now overwhelmed by an oppressive feeling. Then: two rock formations, each 10 to 12 m high. This passage costs one or the other quite a bit of effort, because here the canyoning guide will abseile you on a fixed rope high above the white spray of the two waterfalls lying one behind the other. Immediately afterwards, we are dropped into a 5m deep emerald green water pool right next to one of the thundering waterfalls. No respite: continue on slippery rock slabs to a 4 m dive into a rock hot tub. Now we're getting out of the water for a minute, as the following waterfall is covered with trees in such a way that direct abseiling would be too dangerous. So we climb up a bit and are then abseiled down 15 m into the deep gorge over a thick tree trunk.

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The curvy course of the gorge goes over piled up alluvial wood and huge rounded stones to the next 10 m high abseiling point, again into a shimmering green pool. Now it's time to swim: one long pool of water after another follows. Then we are right under the Wolf Bridge, the highlight of this tour is in front of us: an approx. 15 m long, rounded natural rock slide. Despite explanations from the guide about the exact posture when sliding and diving and despite his assurances that the water basin at the end of the slide is really deep enough, most people now swallow quite dry. But it's no use — it's time to overcome your inner bastard and get started. Anyone who completely leaves their courage can be abseiled down, it's not like that... After that, it's time to swim again! Over two long pools, we come to the last combination of this tour: a 5 m abseiler into a winding rock maze, then over a 4 m slide into a wide, 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 slipped or abseiled down). At the next advantage, which opposes the participants, the first meters are abseiled down and the last 3-4 m jumped. With a safe 3-person chain stand, you now abseil down into 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.

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Best time:

‍May to October

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Total tour duration:

approx. 7-9 hours

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Walking time of the gorge:

approx. 6-8 hours