Touring Link Board
www.alpenverein.de
Official site of the German Alpine Association. Good address
to evaluate touring conditions, to find a hut,
or to book a guided tour or an Alpine training course.
Region:Focus on European Alps.
Content:Alpine conditions, hut dictonary, Alpine sports in general,
guided tours and Alpine trainings, security, maps, sport competitions, expeditions,
family and Alpine sports, nature and environment, Alpine archive, mountaineering
and culture, Alpine museum, the young in the mountains.
www.alpenverein.at
Official site of the Austrian Alpine Association. Also a good address
to evaluate touring conditions, to find a hut,
or to book an Alpine training course.
Region:Mainly European Alps.
Content:Alpine conditions, sophisticated hut dictonary, good touring link
collection, Alpine sports in general, events, shop, nature and environment,
the young in the mountains.
www.tourentipp.de
My absolute favorite touring side for the European Alps.
High quality tour descriptions for hiking, via ferrata, and
skiing tours.
Region:European Alps.
Content:High quality alpine tour archive for tours mentioned
above made by Bernhard Ziegler. All tours with pictures, some with GPS tracks.
In addition this side provides a hut dictionary,
Alpine conditions, and a touring blog.
www.alpintouren.at
Really huge archive containing over 8000 mountain tours of all kinds
mainly in Europe. Not restricted to the Alps, scope is the whole world.
Region:World but most tours in Europe.
Content:Huge tour description archive including GPS tracks for
hiking, mountainbiking, ski, snowboard and snowshoe touring, climbing, via
ferrata, sleding and nordic walking. In addition this site offers a lodging finder,
a touring blog, and a nice link collection.
www.alpin.de
One of the leading German online and print magazines about Alpinism.
Region:Whole world.
Content:Alpine news, lots of photo & video stuff, photo contests, alpine conditions,
touring tips & diaries, product tests, articles about alpine security & technique,
event calendar, and last but not least an alpine forum.
www.klettern.de
The German climbing magazine online. Hot Rocks. Cold Ice. Big Walls.
Region:Whole world.
Content:Cimbing news, equipment test, huge climbing region advisor,
climbing and safeguarding techniques, community with user blog, lots of videos,
and a preview on the the printed magazine.
www.roberge.de
Tours, forum and all around mountain sports in the Bavarian Alps.
Region:Bavarian Alps and Austria, catchment area of Rosenheim.
Content:Huge tour description archive for hiking, climbing, via ferrata, biking,
sledding, ski, snowshoe and nordic walking tours in the catchment area of Rosenheim,
Bavaria.
This side also contains a big forum with lots of mountaineering topics.
www.via-ferrata.de
Great touring site for via ferrata fans.
Region:Europe.
Content:Extensive via ferrata dictionary and tours in whole Europe with detailed descriptions
in German, lots of pictures,
and short descriptions in 5 languages. Some other stuff too like hiking, MTB, ski
&snowshoe tours,
equipment, alpine technique, some panoramics & links.
www.schoenebergtouren.de
Touring and mountaineering portal.
Region:European Alps.
Content:Lots of alpine news as well as mountaineering, hiking, and climbing tours.
Panorama Link Board
worldwidepanorama.org
Site containing lots of beatiful panoramas from photographers all
over the world.
Description:The World Wide Panorama started in March 2004 and has become an ongoing series of
events.
Photography takes place on the solstices (longest and shortest days of the year) and
equinoxes (day and night of equal length).
Photographers all over the world are welcome to participate.
www.panoramas.dk
Veteran site of the photographer Hans Nyberg. He collected exceptional panos
from 2002 to 2013 for this amazing archive. Unfortunately not maintained any more.
Content: Collection of exceptional panoramas over the time.
www.db-panoramen.de
Panorama site of Dirk Becker, a Mountainpanoramas photographer of the first hour.
Content:Dirk's huge collection of stunning mountain panoramas mainly from the Alps.
A must visit.
www.360bilder.de
Panorama website of Bernd Dohrmann with absulutely crazy shots. A must see.
Content: Bernd Dohrmann's amazing panos. Check yourself. This is fine art of panoramic phptography.
In
addition Bernd publishes information about his innovative panoramic techniques.
www.virtualtravel.sk
Very nice and professional panorama website of Slovakia including the mountain regions.
Content: Panorama website that really allows virtual travelling through the Slovak Republic,
through the Cities,
through the country sides and through the mountain regions including high Tatras.
Professional and a pleasure to visit. In many
languages.
Misc.
Resources, Equipment, Software
www.udeuschle.de
Render your artificial panorama including labeled summits. The tool for labeling.
Content:Fantastic rendering engine to generate artificial panoramas wherever you are in
the Alps, the Pyrenees or else between Canary Islands and the Himalayas. From a database
of more than
20.000 summits the labels are generated. Must see!
www.ptgui.com
PTGui is a highly sophisticated panorama stitching software. My absolute favorite.
Also includes HDR features.
Functions:PTGui is a highly developed software suitable for beginners as well as
for professionals. Supports automated stiching workflow together with full manual
control, fisheye lens support,
color blending / correction, vignetting correction,
viewpoint correction, layered output for retouching, can handle huge images,
16 bit color depth support, many HDR and LDR features, QTVR output.
panoramabuch.com
Brand new comprehensive and up-to-date book and website of Thomas Bredenfeld about
panoramic techniques.
Content of the Website:Book content and samples, blog not only about the book, lots of samples,
some tips, lots of useful links, hardware shop.