This is a lovely hike up to Wendelstein (1838m), Bavarian Prealps, while checking out additional peaks around.

The route itself is beautiful, ambitious (long & sporty if like us you want to do it in 8 hours 🤭), fun as it has scrambling portions, wonderful panorama views and ending with a mini dip in Leitzach river just before getting the train back at Fischbachau Bahnhof.

You can always opt to leave one of the peaks out if you find them less interesting to visit i.e. Lacherspirtz on the way to Wendelstein.

Or instead of going to Kirchwand and Schweinberg  you can take the more relaxed Wanderweg 665 Fischbachau-Birkenstein for descend. 

On way to Fischbachau we went the pathway near Bücher Alm.We only realized later that we could have also gone over Breitenstein Fensterl that offers a really beautiful view over Leitzachtal. So if you have time (and energy) be sure to check it out. It's not in this route but with gpx app reader you'll find it easily on the map :)  

The route requires you to have good orientation skills and basic ability to judge grounds as some sections do not have clear markings and path traces are not always visible. Also some sections require use of hands.

Here are some  portions we'd like to draw your attention to:

- from Wildwasserhütte-Jackelberg to Kaserwand (where you ascend a steep hill) paths are not clearly marked and rather exposed.

You need to have good orientation skills to notice the narrow paths in tricky grassy slopes uphill towards Kaserwand even with a gpx map.

In winter months probably is not fun, especially for inexperienced hikers.

There is a path leading to Jackelberg next to this one ~ 5m to the right however, we hadn't taken it. 

- Portion over Türkenköpfl also involved some scrambling and paths are not marked visibly so if inexperienced no fun. 

There is a parallel way couple of meters lower towards Elbach alm that might be easier to follow however we hadn't taken it so it's more of my guess.

Also, we'd recommend to have gloves with you for scrambling portions.It's just more convenient than without ;)