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• Applications are only valid via internet. No phone calls and no "a friend's friend has..." and the like. Last call is 2009, January 1st.
  
• Invited is, who is on the invitation-list. This is a private meeting and may only be accessed via a private road. Who is not on the list, won't be allowed up to the camping grounds.
  
• If there's too many applicants, you may still be put on the wait-list. Who is invited gets a mailing saying exactly that. If someone is not able to come,
  you move one up on the wait-list and eventually will be allowed to come to the meeting. Those decisions are not negotiable and no correspondence will be held about such decisions!
• We will answer EVERY application, in case you don't get a reply, please resend your application or contact us via the Forum.

Your chances improve, if:

• you've already applied to a previous Tauerntreffen, but couldn't come for any reason
  
• you've already been to the Tauerntreffen
  
• you apply IN TIME and have a nice text on the tap for us!
  

We're camping enthusiasts, but on a shoe-string budget and rather classical style.
We love to chat about motorcycle-travelling, in-travel-quick-fixes, winter camping, bike-tinkering of all sorts, you got the picture, right ?
People who travelled their miles down the road, home-made rigs or an old Beesa or Bantam are far more interesting to us, than the newest luxury vehicles and their gold card riders.

Just a few quick questions for you - if you don't honestly answer all questions with "yes", might probably be better off, with refraining to come to the Tauerntreffen!

Is a winterrally fun for you, if there's no crackers, rockets or other fireworks ?

We are in high-alpine regions (fireworks are used as last means of alarm there) - there are no fireworks allowed for obvious reasons, not even on new years eve.
One of the most beautiful experiences on the whole rally is the extraordinary starry sky (if there's no snow storm) and the unimaginable silence.
Alright, once in a while you might hear a bike or two... ...

Will I be able to enjoy the rally, even if I am not drunk and making fuss ?

We highly value the fact that EVERY participant is able to stay in one's right mind - especially in respect to others.

If you want to hit the bottle, please do it somewhere else, there's better places to do it.

Another thing we strongly believe in is, that everyone should be able to sleep past midnight ... an exception might be the rides of the rescue-crew.
Other the boogie-man with the orange gloves's gonna come around...

And if you're after drinking and camping, please think twice, otherwise the boogie man might leave his orange gloves at home...

Who wants to drink and sleep in the hut, should still think about coming to an end around midnight and get to bed rather silently, the others will be grateful about it.

For the campers: Do I have sufficient equipment ?

We've seen 60MPH+ snowstorms, this is no place for your walmart tents. Fibreglass tube's are seriously useless and will break like toothpicks.

And at about -20 degrees Celsius your army surplus sleeping bag might be a little insufficient.

There's a lot of winter meets, where you can see your beer freeze, on the Tauerntreffen you might even see frozen booze (the record was -24 degrees Celsius).

In the past there where a couple of lady visits. In 2008 we had a visit from Paula (a storm devastating large areas of Eastern Austria), with windspeeds ranging up to 80 to 90 MPH. This was only sustained by approx. 50% of the tents.

Whose tent breaks, please go up to the hut, there's always a place to sleep up there.

Snow-caves might be fun, but can end up as death traps, when snow is closing your entry and you're silently passing out, due to suffocation or collapse.
And be honest 2008-folks, who really filled his cave up with snow afterwards ?

Am I able to do it w.o. a big fire ?

Campfires are not permitted in the nature reserve and sparks might burn holes in otherwise good tents.

Therefore we're only permitted to grill or cook or have some kind of mobile oven inside our tents.

Picture: the heat-up phase. This shouldn't take place too close to the tents..

Getting firewood from the woods is not allowed at all.
Please bring along charcoal and firewood, diy-shops and bigger supermarkets in this area are selling that.

In 2008 we brought along a pile of firewood at the campsite intended for everyone just for a small tip. There where no tips and in the end we had to collect the firewood leftovers from all over the campsite during the snowstorm.

That's why we'll bring along only a little bit of firewood and will hand over a bit of that in exchange for some hard currency - most probably at the AIA-tent.

Is my bike or rig decently equipped ?

Don't get us wrong, if you're sensibly equipped everybody will jump in to help, but nobody will tow your summer-outfit up the hill, because there's no winter-tyres or snow-chains to fit.
It is a winter-bike-rally and who doesn't have a winter-ride might be in the wrong place and endangering others.

There where some, who stumbled 200 meters past the toll-hut (approx. 5km to the actual campground and meeting) and said frankly:
"Get me someone, to tow me up there", well ... live with the answer you might get.

There is no right on someone towing you up there. Who is helping you out is doing this deliberately and for fun - and will enjoy your acknowledgement.
The same is applicable for our legendary in-the-wild-repairs.
Towing and Repairs are happening entirely on your own responsibility.

The road up the hill will be cleared with usual means to a locally usual standard. It won't be deep snow, but it won't either salted or gravelled.
The road is also used as a toboggan run.

Your bike is supposed to handle snowy and icy roads and everything in between.

A lot of people actually managed to get by w.o. chains - if there's grippy snow, not a problem, but as soon as it get's icy...
This is also applicable for the camp-site (please think of suitable shoes).

The proper equipment can be acquired via Immler (tyres) and Staudacher (chains).

Am I skilled enough?

The Tauerntreffen is due to it's high alpine location and very selective avenue no bike rally for first-timers. You might be able to make it or not.

The better your equipment is, the more fun you'll have. But that doesn't mean you'll have to get yourself the most expensive and most fancy stuff.

If you're new to the meeting, please accept the advice of others.
If all people in the parking lot in town tell you to put on chains, then please do it or don't complain, if you're rolling kitchenette is stuck in front of the toll-lady.

Follow the tradition - help others to help themselves, is the motto that made the Tauerntreffen so spectacular. Please be generous with it.
Please also accept assistance, when offered to you.

Am I willing to spend a couple of extra hundred euros ?

A destroyed final drive, a broken windshield or a torn tent are costly. The prices on the hut (food and logis) are on a reasonable scale.
Please think about it and accept it, no whineing about later on...

For the meeting itself we will collect 10 Euros each - who doesn't want to pay that is not supposed to complain at the toll hut, but refrain from coming to the meeting. Even we do have costs - and some open bills from the last couple of meetings.

Furthermore there is a little toll-fee to be paid for the community (normally 2 Euros each for the whole meeting).

We have badges, stickers and mugs available for you, if you'd like.

And of course accomodation: a real bargain so to say, 5 Euros for camping for a whole weekend per person - which is mostly collected by the host, who is clearing parking area and the road, is placing barriers, offers his garage for repairs and is making sure that campers have a toilet and a restroom, is taking care of the garbage and the like. Not to forget the shakedown bed, in case your tent gave up...

Am I mature enough for the Tauerntreffen?

Mutual respect and friendlyness are expected. Fair comments aiming to improve next year's meeting are most welcome. But who thinks, he's the star of the meeting, is terribly wrong.
We don't need no smarty squarepants or weekendwarriors ... heroicallity and your drinking capabilities are to be tested somewhere else.

We're really happy to have some ladies and children on the meeting. Who can't cope with that (got overtaken on the way up ?) and has to share some stupid verdicts, please read the previous sentences again.

The Tauerntreffen-Riders are a community.
Nattes once put it so nicely: "I've rarely seen so many nice, helpful and somewhat mad blokes in one spot."
Olly is also sharing a word of truth: "It's kinda nice that I meet the guy with the broken regulator from last year (broken cable) at the toll-hut and it feels as if we've met yesterday for the last time, he gives me a push and I return that favour in giving him a brake chock, so he can put on his chains. If I am stuck on the tollroad, because my completely overloaded outfit just isn't playing right and Zwillingspeter is coming down the hill with a big grin and first of all we have a smoke together, when I see the smirky grins of the brits on the ride, when Richard (with at least 5-times more horsepower) stays behind me on the saturday-outing's return on the tollroad, just to check whether I can make with the solodrivetrain - just with a matter of course without words - when I am the one to spill the coffee prior to the ride, when we have some fun at the fireplace, when I maintain to keep the Kahlgryndige within my sights, and without a single word he slows down to my pace. I haven't seen these guys for a year, but we meet before dawn on a petrol-station and ride together as if we would everyday. One guy is sacrificing a whole day, so I can go for the ride and takes an extra ride home (120km) just for the sake of it."
All of the above guys just know each other from the Tauerntreffen ... - who will know you ?

Am I a motorcyclist?

Then you'll surely come with a bike and not with a car plus trailer and your leisure vehicle on top.
Quads and trikes are no bikes. Skidoos aren't either. Rolling kitchenettes are accepted, although WE prefer real classice bikes with or without a sidecar.
Exceptions - e.g. due to sicknesses or disabilities - are to be discussed with the hosts...

The email button is on the very bottom of the page.

Do I have to camp, to be part of "it" ?
Frankly speaking - yes. Who doesn't want to do that for personal reasons or due to a lack of equipment prefers to sleep at the hut, is valued absolutely equally, nobody will throw certain looks at him!

But who stays the whole meeting at the hut, without a single ride or going down to the campsite,might have got something wrong.
The inner core will be at the campsite or having a ride.

Contrary to the above, we know, that an important thing about the meeting is the hut. The landlord's family is living from this hut and we enjoy the one or other meal or drink up there. We're glad when the hut is filled well, who needs a place to sleep is definetely most welcome up there and definitely will be enjoying the meeting more than someone who is staying down in the town 7km away!

Please don't be cross with us, if we don't sit down at every table - most of the time we'll be dressed up a lot too warm and aren't boozed up enough. If you want to have a chat, don't be shy and come down to the campsite!

That's why we won't have a booth on the hut. This will happen down at the campsite, just like the registration. And another novelty for 2009: we'll have a Dixie-Toilette.

Just by the way - the people with the longest distance (Scottland, England, Netherlands or Northern Germany) almost all of them are campers.

Am I able to be a guest?

The area doesn't belong to us. The toll road is used by tobogganists and other alpine tourist. These are guests on the hut too. It is even possible, that the community might close the road for an hour or two, so the tobogganists can get down unendangered. To get excited about that won't help...
Please respect nature and the people that live there. Being friendly to the country and its people will be returned by friendlyness from the other side.

Furthermore we would like to enjoy the meeting too, therefore we don't want to clean up your garbage after you.

If you can leave the campground the way it was when you came there, you're most gladly welcome. Others not.

Left wood or lost tent pegs cause severe damage to the snowblower. Broken glass (dropped and frozen) is really dangerous - please don't use glassbottles ...
In case one of you slips on the and falls on some half frozen shards, you will understand.
The campsite will be used as a parking lot after the meeting.

It is a matter of honour, to remove tentpegs, or collects shards or trash, when you should encounter some,
no matter if you're the source of origin or not. Everybody might oversee something, but we all can work together.

This is not a giant locus - please use the designated private location!

On the picture: Uwe and Matthias working there way through the snow and clearing up the left overs.

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