AUSTRIA: Booked For Austria Early Sept

[buck wild]

I just finalized details on a trip to Tarrenz, Austria, for Chamois (gam), capara ibex, and possibly roebuck or management red stag. I'll be hunting with a friend for 3 days in the Austrian Alps. I've started serious training and breaking in my new Crispi boots, but living at 40 ft above sea level isn't helping . My wife, younger son, and his GF will be tagging along and then we will go to Rome for 4 days before returning.

 

[BRICKBURN]

Sea level training will certainly not be perfect but certainly better than nothing.

Good luck on your quest.

 

[buck wild]

This is the best incline I have in my area, a drainage ditch . You can see the trail I’m starting to wear into it. I’ll take picture of the trail again right before I leave. As of today, I have 19 miles and 70 “flights of stairs” on the new boots. I am really enjoying these new Crispi’s and can see why they are so highly ranked among hiking boots.

 

[grand veneur]

I just finalized details on a trip to Tarrenz, Austria, for Chamois (gam), capara ibex, and possibly roebuck or management red stag. I'll be hunting with a friend for 3 days in the Austrian Alps. I've started serious training and breaking in my new Crispi boots, but living at 40 ft above sea level isn't helping . My wife, younger son, and his GF will be tagging along and then we will go to Rome for 4 days before returning.

Le chamois in French, die Gams in German. Isard in the Pyrenees.

Don't worry, the highest mountain in Austria, the Großglockner, is only 3798m high. The risk of altitude sickness by hunting Gämse in Austria is low. Good luck with your Gams jagd.

 

[Altitude sickness]

Get yourself a tree stand safety harness. And a truck tire on a wheel. Using a carabiner or similar quick detach device. Make a little tether and attach the wheel low at the rear of your harness.

Drag the wheel up hill. Then drag it back down. It will burn your lungs and legs. And won’t injury your knees. If not too steep and your not concerned about your knees you can carry it down to add weight.

If you don’t have a spare truck tire and wheel. Anything that creates sufficient drag will work.

 

[buck wild]

Get yourself a tree stand safety harness. And a truck tire on a wheel. Using a carabiner or similar quick detach device. Make a little tether and attach the wheel low at the rear of your harness.

Drag the wheel up hill. Then drag it back down. It will burn your lungs and legs. And won’t injury your knees. If not too steep and your not concerned about your knees you can carry it down to add weight.

If you don’t have a spare truck tire and wheel. Anything that creates sufficient drag will work.

Now that’s funny

 

[buck wild]

Le chamois in French, die Gams in German. Isard in the Pyrenees.

Don't worry, the highest mountain in Austria, the Großglockner, is only 3798m high. The risk of altitude sickness by hunting Gämse in Austria is low. Good luck with your Gams jagd.

Yeah I’m not worried about the elevation as I don’t get “the sickness” until 10k ft but am concerned about just the hiking inclines. They assure me the roads aren’t too far from the hunting areas

 

[Altitude sickness]

I used a 16” wheel and a heavy truck tire. Drug it through snow and mud. And up hills to train. It will build your legs and lungs without injuries to your knees

 

[LivingTheDream]

I just finalized details on a trip to Tarrenz, Austria, for Chamois (gam), capara ibex, and possibly roebuck or management red stag. I'll be hunting with a friend for 3 days in the Austrian Alps. I've started serious training and breaking in my new Crispi boots, but living at 40 ft above sea level isn't helping . My wife, younger son, and his GF will be tagging along and then we will go to Rome for 4 days before returning.

Are there any hotels or tall buildings? Once you get to 8 stories or more, if you can do an hour going up and down that will really work.

Also, congrats on a getting a permit for the Ibex. That is a good friend!!

 

[buck wild]

Are there any hotels or tall buildings? Once you get to 8 stories or more, if you can do an hour going up and down that will really work.

Also, congrats on a getting a permit for the Ibex. That is a good friend!!

My wife works at a high school so I’m about to get access to the football stadium bleachers

 

[wesheltonj]

Go to a health club, and get on the treadmill. You can adjust the incline.

 

[noafrica4me]

02 deprivation. Break out those old covid masks.

 

[Red Leg]

Good advice from @wesheltonj. Just go to the club and use the treadmill - increase the slope every few days. Depending upon where you are hunting in the Austrian Alps, you almost certainly will find the terrain far less demanding than a North American mountain goat or sheep hunt. Neither the Gams nor the Ibex will be much above tree line if at all. If you are doing a spring hunt, they will be feeding much lower than in the fall.

The typical revier (concession) in the Alps will have a pretty extensive logging "road" network to provide access to the mountain. You will likely head up in the dark. On the return trip, I would strongly recommend an inside the curve seat if you have a weak stomach.

That is an ambitious list for three days - particularly if you have any weather - particularly fog. Your guide will likely be looking for a specific Ibex that they have patterned. I would assume they will target him first. I was very interested in a mature male gams when hunting there and it took two days to get one. They shoot both male and female as part of the management plan. The females will typically have longer but lighter horns than a male. In the spring, roe deer will be a great option, but not red stag and the reverse in the fall.

Thread 'AUSTRIA: Austrian Chamois Hunt - A 45-Year Quest'

Oct 13, 2021

As we edged uphill through the sodden trees and cold fog below the cliff face, I was feeling all of my nearly seven decades and the six-thousand feet of altitude. I thought to myself that I really was getting a bit old for climbing around the Carinthian Alps looking for a small brown mountain goat. A fresh blast of wind driven light rain served to underscore that conclusion. I had at least finally slid into the "one more step" pattern familiar to many who have contoured a steep mountain slope.

This particular quest really had begun forty-five years before when I was a young first...

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[DieJager]

Good luck and enjoy. It seems a big list for three days, so you need luck but you will have a challenge. Anxiously waiting for your report. Wmh!