20^Sep Sat
07:30

Saturday forecast looks beautiful and sunny. Let’s go to this beautiful spitze and lake in Austria for an end of summer hike and if we’re feeling crazy a dip in Kogelsee 🤷‍♀️🫣🤪 You need enough fitness and sure-footedness to be comfortable with the T3/ 1337m elevation / 13.5km distance.  I will not be hiking for speed.  

Carpool: If you have a car, please add it to the carpool, if you don't have a car you can join one of the existing cars in the carpool. If there is no convenient car for you, you can join waiting list and you will be notified when a car is added to the carpool. 

Timing:

07:10 cars depart central Munich

09:30 Arrive and start hiking from Gramais Parkplatz

13:30 lunch 

18:30-19:00 reaching the car park depending on our speed.

Parking location: 

https://maps.app.goo.gl/KssvFWFjWCezYZLv5?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy 

What to bring:

Waterproof hiking boots

Layers (it will be 25 degrees at the start point but approx 15 degrees at the spitze)

Cash (for the ride/incase)

Passport/ID

Food/drinks for the way inc lunch (we will stop at a gasthaus in Gramais when we are back to the car but we dont have any hut on the way. So make sure you have enough with you)

DAV insurance

Hat

Sun Cream

Sun glasses

Swimming stuff and towel if you’re feeling brave! But maybe this is mad 🤷‍♀️

Background below courtesy of Marco :-)

Very beautiful tour around the Kogelseespitze in a very scenic area. 

The Lechtal Alps form probably the most impressive mountains in the entire Northern Limestone Alps. Completely untouched for long stretches, not so overrun as other places, the extraordinarily rugged landscape with wildly carved valleys and huge, very steep, inaccessible rocky mountains. The most beautiful and picturesque section in this mountain range is probably the Parzinn, a stretched Hochkar with three lakes, framed by a semicircle decorative rocky peaks. Here the rock layers are vertical, and so all the walls and ridges are divided into parallel ribs and gullies.
After leaving Gramais, we will go on a rather steep path through pine fields in about 2 hours to the Kogelsee at 2150m. A lake with wonderful reflections. From here then in just under 1 hour up to the Kogelseescharte at 2497m. Now follows the initially quite steep descent down to the Parzinnenseen and then back up to the Gufelseescharte at 2370 m which is reached after about 1 hour. Here we take the final ascent to Kogelseespitze 2647 m.

Kogelseespitze is an excellent panoramic mountain with the panorama of the Lechtal main ridge especially the Dremelspitze, looking like a dome, as well as the chain of the Allgäu Alps in the north behind the deeply cut Lechtal, and further Wildspitze, Zuckerhütl, Zugspitze and many others, plus last but not least a wonderful view of the lakes surrounding the peak.

Moreover in this area you have a good chance of spotting ibexes. From the Gufelseescharte you go down to the picturesque Gufelsee and continue on a good path to the junction into the valley towards Branntweinboden. The descent is quite steep and has some sections that are secured by a wire rope. Once at the bottom you can cover the remaining 3km towards Gramais much more easily.

I am not a professional mountain guide. Mountain sports can be dangerous. Anyone joining this hike does so at their own risk. Ensure you familiarise yourself with the technical requirements and conditions of the hike before joining. It is each person’s responsibility to have a copy of the route/GPX file.