How hard is it to climb it in winter, no tourski's ... walking and sleeping in snowhole's ...

If skiing how long will the climb to the top and back last?

From the ski resort via Pfaffenjoch it tooks 2 hours up. An ascent by feets depends on the snow conditions. If there is a lot of fresh snow it would be mostly unpossible. If the snow is blown and frozen it would be okay. Ask the guides of Stubai-valley in Neustift. By the way, Stubai-valley is one of the coldest areas in the Alps, be prepared. In winter are -25 to -30 degree celsius in a height of 3000m normal. Notice that the glacier to the north of Zuckerhuetl is very dangerous in winter.

We both have no glacier experience ...

Do you have any suggestions of a trek in austria where there are possibilities for snow hole digging?

If it will be a good winter, you can dig a snow hole everywhere you want. What do you like more? High alpine mountains, i.e. Glockner area, stubai, oetztal, pitztal - or smaller mountains with forests and much snow, i.e. Wilder Kaiser, Karwendel or Kitzbuehl. But without ski or snow shoes it will be hard to reach lonely areas.

will be renting tourski's or shoes ...

i'd rather have a high mountain as a preparation on the ascent of elbrus in july 2008
the higher the bether but as a rookie we don't need to do stupid things

Check out Pitztal: you can leave the ski resort at Mittelbergjoch. You can dig a hole on Taschach-glacier and make some easy high altidude mountains. Wildspitze, Hinterer Brochkogel or Petersenspitze. This glacier is very friendly in the upper part.

plenty of maps of the lechthal. Any possibilities overthere? Grosse Krottenkoph for example?

With na glacier experience is it adviced to come near to a glacier?
Can't ski at all better learn it before leaving or can i learn it overthere?

As I said, you can dig a snow hole everywhere. Lechtal ist very good. It is not very high, but it has a lot of snow every year. Good destination. But there are not very high mountains. If you want to do a peak above 3000 meters you have to go to the mountains at the main ridge of the Alps in the South.

Learning to ski is nooooooo problems. Sometimes I think there are billions of ski-guides in Austria.

No guides, just doing the low budget thing

Still in need of a lot of money for elbrus and aconcagua summitting

The low budget way to learn skiing: skis with thw front towards the valley and "Jalla!"

while sitting in a hotel room and surfing with my mobile phone on the internet, I am not able to support you more informations about Lechtal, sorry

I hope you have a good sleeping bag!

hope to borrow a good sleeping bag of a friend of my or else will be buying one on my own ...
can't risk to loose a finger while sleeping ...

i was thinking of haselgehr - hermann von barth hutte - grosse krottenkoph - kempner hutte - back down ... in 4-5 days