Feiner, Vitzthum and Schmid² want to break out of the eternal contradiction of ski touring enthusiasm on the one hand and the associated consumption of resources and land on the other. Climate and environmental protection are a central motive, but by no means the only one. The use of public transport opens up completely new combination possibilities for ski safaris or ski touring - it is a great merit of the book to emphasise this.
Broadening perspectives and adventures with and by public transport instead of paying homage to the idol of motorised private transport. Pleasantly enough, they do this without pointing a finger, but instead make you want to try it out for yourself with every tour description.
The book's target audience is first and foremost Munich's urban ski touring clientele, and quite deliberately so. After all, it is not only on ski touring routes that directing streams of visitors is a desirable goal. The "local mountains", which are easily accessible from Munich, and the neighbouring communities are heavily frequented in both summer and winter - so much so that complaints about the "city dwellers" are part of the standard repertoire of the rural population in both summer and winter.
Presentation of the tours
The 35 tour suggestions include some of Munich's local mountains such as the Wank, the Hirschberg, the Kampenwand and the Geigelstein, as well as a clear focus on the hotspots of Schliersee, Tegernsee and Spitzingsee. This is quite consistent, because anyone who has ever set off too late in this direction from Munich on a winter weekend has bitten the steering wheel a few times in anger and despair, even with an otherwise stoic behavioural ideal.
The tour destinations in the guide are usually already familiar to experienced tourers, but there are always worthwhile variations - keyword new perspectives - that are only possible by using public transport. For example, the "Cool-Loch Safari" (Tour 16), which takes you from Hochzirl to Gießenbach.
There are also well-known classic routes that only come into account when public transport is used. A prime example of this is the popular Grünstein bypass in the Wetterstein, which would otherwise require several cars and leads from Munich through the bottleneck of Garmisch.
