Schneealpe - Windberg (1.903 m) via Kleinbodengraben vom Leitner aus

Auszug aus einem Bericht von einer abenteuerlichen Fahrt auf die winterliche Schneealm mit einem Sturz von der Mitterbergschneid in den Kleinbodengraben vom legendären Bergführer aus Hinternaßwald, Konrad Kain, im Jänner 1905.

"On the next Sunday I took my skis and went off early, to climb over the Nas ravine and the Ameisbühel to the Schneealpe. When I went out in the morning it did not occur to me that it would be a fateful day. The weather was beautiful and clear, but very cold. I went along the Mitterberg-Schneid, and when I heard chamois whistling I went too far out on the cornice. A little crack an the cornice broke, an I went down heard over heels - fortunately always behind the avalanche. I went over a rock, a ski broke in half and the other flew into the depths. The rucksack was left behind. "Now I am lost" said I to myself an tumbled over the avalance. Then the thing stopped in a hole. (...) There I sat without skis, without snowshoes in a wooded valley. I looked over the ground but it was impossible, for I broke in whereever I stepped. So I tried rolling on brush and branches. But I was too tired. The idea came to me of tying on brush and branches so that I would not break through so much." (...)" (Quelle: Conrad Kain; „Where the clouds can go“)