Dammkarwurm is the name of an annually discharged German

Germans

The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....

 ski mountaineering

Ski mountaineering

Ski mountaineering is form of ski touring that variously combines the sports of Telemark, Alpine, and backcountry skiing with that of mountaineering...

 competition, carried out by the German Alpine Club

German Alpine Club

The German Alpine Club or DAV is the largest climbing association in the world and the eighth largest sports union in Germany. It is organised into 354 legally independent branches with a total of around 815,000 members...

 (Deutscher Alpenverein) or DAV, for the first time in the end of the 1990s. The ranking of the Dammkarwurm is part of the German Skimountaineering Cup.

The Dammkar by itself is a cirque

Cirque

Cirque may refer to:* Cirque, a geological formation* Makhtesh, an erosional landform found in the Negev desert of Israel and Sinai of Egypt*Cirque , an album by Biosphere* Cirque Corporation, a company that makes touchpads...

 in the Karwendel

Karwendel

The Karwendel is the largest range of the Northern Limestone Alps. Four chains stretch from west to east; in addition, there are a number of fringe ranges and an extensive promontory in the north....

 near Mittenwald

Mittenwald

Mittenwald is a German municipality in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in Bavaria.-Geography:Mittenwald is located approx. 16 kilometers to the south-east of Garmisch-Partenkirchen...

. Before the DAV became member of the International Council for Ski Mountaineering Competitions

International Council for Ski Mountaineering Competitions

The International Council for Ski Mountaineering Competitions located in the Floridablanca 84 in Barcelona was part of the Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme and responsible for ski mountaineering and vertical race competitions...

 (ISMC), the so-called "DIAMIR race" was carried out as the unofficial German championship of ski mountaineering in the Dammkar. In 2008 the German championship of vertical race

Vertical race

A Vertical Race is a special kind of ski mountaineering without the typical downhill skiing after ascending. At the mountain running and climbing passages the runners have to carry their skis in their backpacks...

took place in this cirque, too.

External links

• Dammkarwurm (German), website of the DAV section Mittenwald
• results since 2006