Haukkari

Climbing is quite big in Austria, or at least we haven’t found a sport shop that wouldn’t sell climbing gear. But even more popular is mountain biking. Wienerwald is filled with steep trails, but the problem is that we don’t know where they are.
We have tried to find some kind of guidebook about trails, but there isn’t any. All trails in the forest are illegal so no-one can put up a guidebook. It would be like making a guidebook for banned climbing areas....

Renting an apartment in Austria was trickier than we expected. There are a plenty of free apartments in Vienna and Mödling, but it’s hard to decide where exactly to live.
How far from the work? How far from climbing? If we move close to Wienerwald forest we could train on the hills. Or maybe we should live close to the freeway, we are probably going to drive somewhere a few times a week and on weekends…But there is also...

We haven’t been bouldering too much lately. Mainly because we don’t have to. Sport climbing around Vienna is pretty damn good and many of the crags are closer than bouldering areas (which actually are not that far either). However, we did an exception...

Random fact of the day: Austria is a small country.
When I open Google Maps and search "Sweden", the scale of the map is 1:200 km. When I change the country to Austria, the scale changes to 1:20 km. Of course, this is partly because of the shape of countries, but the fact is that Sweden is about 5 times...