Last and rather unspectacular day of the Kaisertour in 2024. Most of the time we followed a gravel road until we reached Kufstein. After lunch our group split up and everyone headed back home by train.

Duration: 2.5 hours (excluding breaks)
Length: 11 km
Elevation: 485 m to 825 m
Ascent/Descent: 60 m ↑ and 400 m ↓

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In August 2024 I went for a short hut trekking tour planned a week in advance. Together with some friends I travelled to Kufstein by train where we took the bus to a small village called Ebbs. After waiting for roughly two hours in a café (thunder and heavy rain upon arrival) we started around half past three in the afternoon towards the Vorderkaiserfeldenhütte.

Duration: 2 hours and 20 minutes (excluding breaks)
Length: 5.5 km
Elevation: 474 m to 1389 m
Ascent/Descent: 915 m ↑ and 0 m ↓

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Let's continue where we stopped last week: still at the Stuttgarter Hütte, still day 2 of the Lechquellenrunde.
We listened to the inn keeper and split our tour in half as snow prevented us from taking the "normal" way through the Madlochjoch: First down to Zürs on the same route as yesterday and then we took the bus to Zug via Lech.
From there on it was all up again until we reached the Ravensburger Hütte at the Spullersee. The sun was strong during the second part and I sweated a lot.

Duration: 3 hours and 45 minutes in total (excluding transfer times, but including breaks while hiking)
Length: 11 km
Elevation: 1485 m to 2310 m
Ascent/Descent: 570 m ↑ and 725 m ↓

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Because we had to reroute again on the second day on our take on the Lechquellenrunde in June 2024, we started the day with an unplanned summit ascent.

From Stuttgarter Hütte it took us roughly an hour to reach the Fanggekarspitze (2640 m). Gladly the snow-covered path was already groomed.
While the weather on the hut was lovely, it got really cold, windy, grey and misty the higher we got. Sight distance was probly between 10 to 15 meters at the peak.

The hike towards the next hut (still day 2!) will be featured in another post next Thursday.

Duration: 2 hours and 15 minutes (including small breaks)
Length: 4.25 km
Elevation: 2310 m to 2640 m
Ascent/Descent: 350 m ↑ and 350 m ↓

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At the end of June 2024 we started a 6-day hut trekking tour, the Lechquellenrunde. Reservation problems at two huts forced us to change our original plan and follow the trail in reverse. After staying in Sankt Anton am Arlberg the days before, we reached our starting point, Lech-Zürs, by bus. From there it was a rather short hike up to the first hut, the Stuttgarter Hütte, which is situated at 2310 m right on the Tyrol side of the Tyrol-Vorarlberg border. Because the weather was really "meh" and we reached the hut at 10 o'clock in the morning, we had lots of time to chat with an employee of the hut, who studied in the same city as us.

Duration: 2 hours (including small breaks)
Length: 5.75 km
Elevation: 1715 m to 2310 m
Ascent/Descent: 635 m ↑ and 40 m ↓

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Temperature rose to 30 °C before midday on day eight of our crossing of the Alps and although the hike was not really challenging, we sweated a lot. After a long way down from Wangenitzseehütte to Iselsberg, we took the bus to Lienz, had a stroll though the city, boarded an ÖBB CityShuttle and finally reached our final destination for this day: Sillian near the Austrian-Italian border.

Duration: 6 hours (including breaks)
Length: 14.5 km
Elevation: 1120 m to 2620 m
Ascent/Descent: 150 m ↑ and 1550 m ↓

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Day 3 of our crossing of the Alps was kind of a rest day with much less walking. After breakfast we took the bus from Zell am See to the wildlife park Ferleiten. There weren't many people there in the morning, so we had some time to enjoy the calm nature and animals. Around lunch time the park got busier. That was our sign to leave for the private alpine guest house Trauneralm situated at an altitude of 1530 metres at the end of the romantic Käfer valley and get enough rest as the more challenging hikes awaited us the next days.

Duration: 1 hour and 50 minutes (excluding breaks)
Length: 7 km
Elevation: 1150 m to 1530 m
Ascent/Descent: 390 m ↑ and 10 m ↓

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Second day of our crossing of the Alps on 1 September 2023. With a rough night and little sleep on the Kärlingerhaus behind us, it was hard to get going at first. But we soon did overcome the reluctance, had a wonderful hiking day with great conditions and a varying, impressive landscapes. After crossing the German-Austrian border and a small break at the Riemannhaus we descended to the small village of Maria Alm. By bus and train we reached Zell am See where we stayed the night.

Duration: 7 hours and 10 minutes (including various, uncounted breaks)
Length: 14,5 km
Elevation: 800 m to 2200 m
Ascent/Descent: 600 m ↑ and 1500 m ↓

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