Summer comes. Let´s celebrate it with a top tour, long and beautiful! Last year we had a memorable day in that area. After considering many different options I decided to not challenge the public transportations (I am a sort of bug finder recently in Germany altough in Austria usually busses work way better in my experience on average :D ) and travel instead by car. We will go to Tannheimertal,  one of the most beautiful high mountain valley in Europe and start our tour in Vilsalpsee, one of the most impressive lakes in Tyrol included in a nature reserve (you can have access to it by car only in limited times of the day, from 10 to 17 access is forbidden) doing a small variant to last year tour in order to reach Schochenspitze. We start at the parking lot at Vilsalpsee and follow the path on the left bank of the lake.  We first hike up to Gappenfeldalpe along the Güterweg so that we can catch Saalfelder Höhenweg, the track that runs from the Neunerköpfle to the Landsberger Hütte. Up there you already get beautiful views till Tannheimer Berge and Obere Strindenalpe. But the best comes soon. The Schochenspitze is a cozy, good-natured Grasgipfel, which is easy to climb.  The view is dreamy, as you have the most complete overview of the almost crater-like Vilsalpsee, Oberetraualpsee and Lache ( the two lakes below it from all mountain hut peaks of the Landsberger Hütte) and Alplsee. Dreamily, the Traualpsee and Vilsalpsee shimmer in the depths. But this is just the starter because then we hike down to Landsbergerhütte and we go straight to one of the most famous corners in Bavarian Alps. I mean that paradise called Schrecksee that can sparkle so much in sunshine with its small island just in the middle.
The view is really impressive. We spend sometimes along the shore to enjoy the views, then follows the descent in the direction of Landsberger hut, where an intermediate stop is possible and reccomended :) . From the hut we descend then the partially secured path in the direction of Traualpsee. From Traualpsee then gwe finally take our way to Vilsalpsee, where we finally turn on the roundabout right and again go to the parking lot.