An the pedestrian bridge over the Ötztaler Ache, the entrance to Outdoorsportland, things get busy as early as 10 a.m. on an Adriatic beach promenade during the high season. The only difference is that the guests don’t have bath towels and air mattresses with them, but rather via ferrata sets and wakeboards. That they don’t wear sun hats and flip flops, but helmets and shin guards. And that the sea is not waiting for you there, but Tyrolean extremes. Everyone on the bridge has appointments of some sort, is on the way to the high ropes course, to the wakeboard lake, for a mountain bike, rafting or canyoning tour. Some go “outside” across the bridge, others come towards them because they want to let off steam “inside”.
“Inside” in an outdoor park is of course also outside – and yet there is a big difference. The “inside” is the amusement park, often also described as an action playground, extreme playground or adrenaline sports center. But in principle it is an extended outdoor pool with many tests of courage. The other is the “outside”, the mountains all around, through which the many mountain guides and climbing instructors take all those who are already a step further.