31^Aug Sat
09:00

This is a two day hike with overnight sleep in Zittauerhütte. Please read carefully instructions for the hike and don´t just click on coming.

CARPOOL

Schedule: Hike starts at 9am. Cars should leave Munich at 06h30 am at latest.

Drivers: add your car in carpool and put meeting point and time for it.

Passengers: Click on Carpool button. Read carefully all information about the car you join, check if there are any specific instructions. All the costs for the trip will be shared with people in the same car. Meeting point is decided by the driver, this information is in the "Carpool" button.

Instructions for the hike

Everyone is responsible for his/her own booking https://www.alpsonline.org/reservation/calendar?hut_id=266&lang=de_AT&header=yes on 31st August night. I will just take care of the routes and leading the group. Given the time of the year the sooner you book the better it is or you won´t be able to find any place. Travelling costs will be shared in each car. Extra any food or drink you will buy along those two days. Hiking can be a dangerous activity. Everyone is responsible for him/herself. I am not a professional guide.

Once booked please confirm with a message below. Just clicking on partecipating is not enough. Who has never hiked with me please send me a PM.

Hike Description

Last weekend of August. Let´s use the days still long enough for some long tours in the Alps. It will be the last two days tour I organize this year and I thought about an hut with a great location. Let´s go to Höhe Tauern this time and spend one night in wonderfully located Zittaerhütte. The Zittauer Hütte (2,328 m) in the Wildgerlostal directly on the Wildgerlossee is an alpine base in the hiking and alpine paradise of the westernmost part of the Hohe Tauern National Park. Unique is the view of the three thousand meter peaks Wildkarspitze and Wildgerslosspitze and their glacier! First day we drive to Krimml and we climb up along the Krimml waterfalls, the highest waterfalls in Europe. Really beautiful and impressive! Then we continue along the long Achental valley till we get to Tauernhaus. The path leads us past the Rainbach waterfall on a steep wide forest path. Continue on a mountainous, well-marked forest trail through a large, cool spruce and stone pine forest. Over huge imposing mountain pine fields you get to a plateau to the lake with a beautiful view of the Rainbachtal. It surrounds us a wild and romantic nature, the mountains are within your reach. We climb the Rainbachscharte at an altitude of 2720 m from the Rainbachsee and then descend another valley on the other side of the mountain to the Zittauer hut at an altitude of 2330 m. We spend there the night. On Sunday after a good breakfast we climb the Rosskopf (2845m). The panorama from Rosskopf is great. Reichenspitze group on the southwest. They are close and arranged in a nice parade. Looking southwards the first high summits of Hohe Tauern can be seen. They start with the Riesenferner group (Hochgall) and continue with the Venediger group (Roetspitze, Dreiherrnspitze, Grosser Geiger, Grossvenediger). From behind even some peaks of the Glockner group can be seen. Towards the northwest, you only see many lower summits of Kitzbuehler Alps and even a few of the eastern Karwendel.

Short descent on the Rosskarscharte and on into the Rosskar. The Rosskarlacke is a good place to take a break. Continue down to the Keesboden, where the ascent begins again. After about 200 hm ascent you reach the Richter hut where we can have lunch break. We finally go back down to Achental till we reach back Krimml. Who is in?