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Christina Keltenich
Introduction

Christina Keltenich

"Even as a child, I was constantly on the go; we used to travel almost every week. Changes of scenery to places like Lake Wolfgangsee and Italy have always been a part of my life."

Mountain hiking in Salzkammergut green backpack blue shirt

My career & more about me

Travel and Studies

After graduating from high school in Munich, I worked as a ski instructor in the Dolomites. During my studies (Intercultural Communication), I traveled extensively, but always with work-related projects: mountain bike guiding across the Alps, outdoor and cycling courses for the Youth Alpine Club, tour guiding for trips to Iceland and Syria for individuals with disabilities, and leading cycling tours in Southern Italy. Additionally, I have been involved in endurance sports and cycling races since my youth, often traveling for competitions. During my studies, I spent over a year in Finland, where I conducted a culture shock experiment, taught in a school, and went on numerous trekking and cycling tours in Lapland. And because I've always been a bit 'mountain-crazy,' I spent an incredible amount of time on long-distance hiking trails and in mountain huts... ski mountaineering and crossing mountain ranges - that was my world!

Before Eurofun

After successfully completing my studies, I went on two (self-organized) expeditions in Bolivia, where I was able to climb numerous peaks above 6,000 meters. For two years, I enjoyed working on Alpine Club huts, purely for the joy of being in the mountains, often carrying countless egg cartons and loaves of bread on skis across high plateaus... Whenever time allows now, I still work as a cross-country skiing guide for the visually impaired and am thrilled when those with visual impairments can find joy in winter sports. I am happy to support them in this endeavor. I still enjoy some assignments as a mountain hiking guide and snowshoe guide, but currently, I am most passionate about the diverse roles I have at Eurofun.

At Eurofun

For over 15 years, I have been a part of the Eurohike team. In the beginning, I worked exclusively as a mountain hiking guide and tour leader for guided tours. Back then, I was mostly with Australians, French, Norwegians, and Irish in the Dachstein and Hochkönig regions, in the Salzkammergut, and in Tyrol. It was a fun time, but such assignments are very intensive!

Over time, I began to contribute more and more of my creative ideas and my experience in tour planning and organizing hikes. This led to the development of the first projects for new trips. It's a very diverse and challenging field! It involves not only physical fitness in the mountains and group supervision but also research, organization, route planning, and map analysis. Technical skills (GPS and computer programs, calculation tools) are essential, as well as flexibility, resilience, and effective communication while on the road. Endurance and readiness to embark on sometimes adventurous journeys to new places are highly sought after!

Christina Keltenich

"It may sound like a dream job, but it's actually hard work... yet often filled with beautiful moments!😊"

Allgäu alpine crossing at Nebelhorn in Oberstdorf with hiker and green backpack
Poppies in the hills of Livorno
Wanderrucksack vor Wanderpanorama in einer algarvischen Bucht

WHAT ELSE IS THERE TO TELL?

IN MY FREE TIME ...

...I go hiking, mountain hiking, snowshoeing, cycling, cross-country skiing, enjoy sauna sessions, and even take a dip in an ice hole.

MY FAVOURITE THINGS TO READ ...

...hiking maps and the weather forecast!😉

My perfect day...

...I wake up in the mountains and spend the entire day hiking, take a refreshing dip in a mountain lake, stop at a hut for a meal or cook something on a camp stove, then go on a moonlit hike before falling asleep under the stars... and the next day, it's rinse and repeat.

TRAVELLING AND OTHER COUNTRIES ...

...for about half the year, my life's focus

MY FAVOURITE TRAVEL DESTINATIONS ...

...are hiking trips all across Europe

MY MOST RECENT TRIPS ...

...most of the new (and nearly new) trips have been with Eurohike. Personally, it's the 6,000-meter peaks in Bolivia, Finland, and ski mountaineering. But my favorite place to travel is back home! 😊

HAPPINESS AND CONTENTMENT MEAN TO ME...

...living in the here and now, savoring every moment, and being grateful for every second.

WRITING FOR ME MEANS ...

...sometimes it's more like work 😉 and sometimes it's meditation and processing travel adventures or sharing stories with others.

Blog

All blogposts by Christina Keltenich
View of the church on the hill
Team Members on Tour
Travel story: Magical Spessart
The so-called "forest bathing" is a popular leisure activity, especially in Asia, and even a therapeutic measure. Being in the forest has been proven to be healthy. Active movement and hiking are known to be not only beneficial for the body, mind, and soul but also a lot of fun! So, hiking in the forest must be the ultimate joyful and healthy vacation experience, right? I was certainly thrilled with the new walking holiday Magical Spessart.
Team Members on Tour
The Moselsteig Trail - a long-distance hiking trail to enjoy
The Moselle rises in the French Vosges and flows through Luxembourg, Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate. The Moselsteig Trail follows its course from the German border in Perl to Koblenz, where it flows into the Rhine at the Deutsches Eck. In between, the Moselle makes more than 15 loops and winds its way between the Eifel and Hunsrück over some 230 kilometres. Its slopes offer the ideal soil for excellent wines and of course one thing - the best hiking paths for active enjoyment! Join me now on the wonderful hiking tour Best of Moselsteig Trail, 10 days.
Pitztal Sölden glacier with snow
Team Members on Tour
Long-distance hiking path E5 Oberstdorf – Merano
From Munich or Salzburg you need around four hours to get to Merano by car, by train it’s about five hours. I on the other hand am spending a week with Eurohike for the crossing of the Alps E5 from Oberstdorf to Merano, because I’m voluntarily going by foot. Am I out of my mind? 😉
Lechtal Alps near the Leutkircher Hut
Eurohike backstage
Team Members on Tour
From an idea to a hiking experience
Every autumn, I excitedly await the updated website from Eurohike. Why? Because that means the new hiking tours for 2023 are bookable. Then I can see the results of the long process of creating our individual hiking tours. Today on our hiking blog I will share with you what goes on behind the scenes when developing our hiking tours – what needs to be taken into account, from the first idea to the finished, fully organized hiking holiday.
Flower meadow on the Monti Pisani
Team Members on Tour
Eurohike backstage
Travel Story: Our new walking tour from Pisa to Elba
It's hard to believe what versatile hiking areas there are on the Tuscan coast. On the walking tour from Pisa to Elba, something completely different from the well-known areas such as South Tyrol and Trentino awaits you. Certainly no high mountains, but still an exotic selection of wonderful hiking impressions on the hiking holiday in Tuscany.
Team Members on Tour
Crossing the Alps differently: From Lake Königssee to Lake Wörthersee Part 2
A week ago I took you on the first 4 hiking stages of my hiking tour from Lake Königssee to Lake Wörthersee, 10 days. Now I’ll tell you more about the tours starting from the national park community of Mallnitz to my final destination, the beautiful Lake Wörthersee. Read the first part of my travel report and get in the mood for this article and the continuation of my tour: Crossing the Alps differently: From Lake Königssee to Lake Wörthersee Part 1.
Team Members on Tour
Crossing the Alps differently: From Lake Königssee to Lake Wörthersee Part 1
Crossing the Alps by foot: that is the dream of many hikers! Crossing the Central Alps in a week without climbing glaciers and without ropes is an exciting project. I deliberately avoid the heavily frequented ‚hiking highway‘ of the Oberstorf-Merano route and hiking four full weeks of our Alpine crossing by Eurohike from Munich to Venice is not possible this time. Also: Instead of hiking to Lake Garda in the classic fashion, I will now aim for Lake Wörthersee. So I am on my way to explore this ‚slightly different Transalpine crossing‘, our hiking tour from Lake Königssee to Lake Wörthersee, 8 days.
Eurohike backstage
Eurohike Backstage: We are ready for the 2022 hiking season!
Hiking boots, poles, GPS device, maps, dictaphone, notebook, a couple of Eurohike outfits and the suitcase is packed. We are off again: after a long winter break I am really looking forward to the start of the 2022 hiking season! In South Tyrol and the Trentino, the first customers will soon start hiking. Finally the snow has said goodbye and we can start with the last preparations. The hiking tour from Lake Garda to Venice in particular calls for my creativity since the stage through the Valsugana is closed and our hiking route cannot be carried out as planned. That is why it is now time for me to look for worthwhile alternatives. And while I am in the area, a visit to the Eurobike bike station in Bolzano is a must
Team Members on Tour
Our new hiking tour in the Algarve
After a long break, I'm getting a little further away again! I'm flying south! But not on holiday, but for work. This time my job is to create a new Eurohike hiking tour on the south coast of Portugal. After I have overcome the bureaucratic hurdles with testing, booking and travel organisation, I hop on the train with my suitcase and hiking backpack and then get on the plane. I'm lucky: While you have to turn up the heating north of the Alps in cold, wet May, the Algarve in southern Portugal offers the exact opposite. A heat wave that will bring 35+ temperatures by the middle of May! For me as a mountain fanatic who has experienced the cold, this is of course a great culture shock. Heat, flat land, sea instead of mountain views and oysters, shrimp and squid instead of goulash. Discover now our new tour for 2022: Algarve Coastal Walk
Hütte am Fluss im Nationalpark Jotunheimen
Team Members on Tour
Head to the north: a tour through Norway’s most beautiful National Park
This time I didn’t head to the classic southern climes, but to the far north, namely to Norway. I’ve never travelled so far ‘up’ for Eurohike but the long journey really was worth it! Norway is stunning: high mountains with glaciers, endless fjords, forests, marshes, turquoise green and deep blue lakes, lonely highlands and lovely farmland with red wooden huts. To explore the hiking tour Norway, 8 days for our guests I spend a few days in the Jotunheimen National Park and in the Sognefjord area. Info: It is possible to enter Norway again – you can find all details on official entry requirements here. We also recommend this EU tool to quickly and easily obtain the most important information on the various countries.
Team Members on Tour
An action packed holiday for families in the Salzburg Alps
It is said that children are the ‘hikers of tomorrow’. But with us you don’t have to wait until tomorrow, because you can have a hiking holiday with the whole family today.
Team Members on Tour
Travel report: Through the Salzkammergut from north to south
Since I could get out of my pram, I’ve been walking the hiking trails of the Salzkammergut. I know almost every path and almost all of the peaks of my homeland, which for me is the most beautiful of all hiking regions. Of course there are also stunning landscapes in Tenerife, Norway and Sardinia, but if I could only choose one region, I would definitely pick the Salzkammergut. Because there is a fantastic combination of beautiful mountains and turquoise blue bathing lakes, a mix of lovely green alpine pastures and demanding high rocky peaks, loud chiming of cow bells and silent high plateaus. There are wonderful high-altitude trails and fantastic deep views of glittering water and there is super delicious Kaiserschmarrn (small pieces of pancake) with fresh milk in rustic mountain huts.
Eurohike backstage
A long hike with the mouse
Christina usually tests our hiking tours, researches the best hiking trails and searches for the ideal route so you can finally experience a wonderful hiking holiday. But everything is different for her at the moment: instead of planning and packing her suitcase every day, Christina has been staying in ‘Hotel Home’ for several weeks now. In her report from her home office, she talks about her new daily life, reveals exciting inside information and shows us how beautiful home can be. It’s best to read for yourself:
Hiker in front of a bay in Tenerife
Team Members on Tour
Christina en route on Tenerife Walking Festival
As part of the annual Tenerife Walking Festival a group of journalists and travel businesses from different countries (from Norway to Spain) were invited to experience this event together with about 200 participants from all over the world. Hana, the organiser of the local tourist board was very considerate and dedicated. She took care of each of us personally and had even compiled a special program with schedule and activities for every one of us. She joined us for dinner and we really enjoyed the great company and amazing conversations with lots of exciting people. Thank you!!! The hotel naturally was truly stunning and the food delicious. Jumping into the pool after the hiking tour felt fantastic!
St. Batholomä with mountain panorama
Eurohike backstage
Tour test: Hiking around Lake Königssee
At the end of a wonderful hiking season I am using the last bit of the great Autumn weather to test out one of our tours in the Bavarian and Salzburg Alps. The start and end point was Lake Königssee - what a joy! I spent the first and last day doing extensive exploratory tours around the lake, which enabled me to really experience the magic of this very special and natural jewel! Lake Königssee is the deepest lake in Germany and is located at the foot of the famous towering mountain in the Berchtesgaden national park, the Watzmann. Despite its wildness and remoteness (or maybe due to it?), this mountain gives off a magical attractiveness that lures people here. The deep-blue waters stretch out like a fjord for 7km between the steep mountain sides of the “Steinernes-Meer” mountain range, which separates Bavaria and the Salzburger Land region. The greatest thing about about Lake Königsee for me is certain: you can walk from it, to it and in vast areas around it. For days… or even weeks!
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Autumnal Hiking in the Wachau
It wasn’t merely the golden October colours, the pleasant walking temperatures or the newly harvested wine that lured me to come walking in the Autumnal Wachau. It was mainly the newly signposted route along the World Heritage Trail here! Some of the best signposted footpaths on both sides of the Danube were simply waiting to be explored. Every variant of the walk, every panoramic viewpoint, every summit and every view view tower was needing to be discovered, checked and hiked to. That meant that I wasn’t leisurely walking one stage at a time but was trekking from dawn til dusk and upstream as well as downstream. The sheer diversity in this region meant that I never got tired. Sometimes I was going along panoramic paths through vineyards via cosy forest tracks and other times up steep ascents where at the top great views were awaiting me… I could even climb some small peaks here.

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