Cloud 9 – Alpine open air sundowner over Innsbruck

It is well known that you are already quite happy on Cloud 7. Cloud 9, on the other hand, is a little higher up, next to the Seegrube mountain station to be precise. Welcome to the highest sun terrace above Innsbruck! Here, on selected spring Saturdays, talented virtuosos of electronic dance music invite you to a springtime sundowner. The somewhat different apres-ski on the Nordkette with a local twist.

The people of Innsbruck have always been very inventive when it comes to enjoying their Nordkette mountain range throughout the season. As soon as the sun-drenched south face takes off its snow coat in spring, for example, people are eagerly fiddling on the slushy (wet and soft) ski slopes. If you don't know it, you're already a stranger: Figln is short for firn gliding. A regionally popular but otherwise unknown late winter sport where you use short skis to make deep furrows in the fading ski slopes (or figlt) and the obligatory ummakugln (falling) in the slushy slush (soft snow) doesn't hurt much. At best, a schnapps will help and at the top of the Seegrube you can dance your wetclothes dry again in the sun anyway.

Saying goodbye to winter also means it's finally warm enough for open air again! And so a stage with turntables is quickly set up on the cozy panorama plateau next to the Seegrube and from 1.30 p.m. you can enjoy fine bass music with your Aperol Sprizz. Last Saturday, for example, you could hear the fur-clad Coldassice, tomorrow Monster Energy will be hosting, then the fiery red Lisa Luka will be playing - and so on until mid-April. The whole line-up can be found here, fine sets instead of hits is the motto, so Sundowner is fun. The "Afternoon Rave" phenomenon has long since found its way to other mountain stations - at the Rosshütte Seefeld (Bogansa) or in the Axamer Lizum. The Nordkette plays its trump card as always: it already has one foot in the city.

So get on the Hungerburgbahn at the Congress , change to the gondola halfway up and the mountain is yours. The team at the ticket counter deserves special praise here: rarely have you received such warm advice! Because it's like this: with a climate ticket, you can travel from the city to the Hungerburg stationfor free, and with a leisure ticket, Snowcard and Innsbruck Card, you can even go all the way to the top. Students and senior citizens always travel for less, children under 6 travel for free, there is a happy hour ticket, you can park for less in the InnenSTADT garage, with the TT Club there is a 25% discount and Westbahn customers also receive a 10% discount if they say the secret password "WESTBAHN". So just ask at the ticket office how much the fish costs.

Alternatively, you can also hike the trail from Hungerburg. However, one or two hiking poles, sturdy shoes, sun cream and sunglasses are a must. At 1,905 meters (that's how high Cloud 9 is), the sun is already beating down so fiercely from the blue sky that you won't be able to see anything else between all the snow crystals and disco balls. The sunshine spectacle on the Seegrube lasts four hours, and from 5.30 p.m. the gondola rides back down into the valley. In the city, evening is just beginning to fall - and you can end the sundowner in the market bar, among the fragrant spring blossoms along the Inn promenade or with a well-earned dinner(perhaps here?).