Etrachsee - Oberer Wildenkarsee

Access to the starting point:
From the motorway Beljak / Villach - Salzburg take the St. Michael exit and follow the road until Tamsweg, where you turn left towards Sauerfeld. Follow this road to the village of Seebach (you can also reach it from Murau), where signs for Krakaudorf direct you to the left. Follow the signs towards Lake Etrachsee, before which you park in the parking lot. The road is closed in winter.

Path description:
From the parking lot at Etrachsee, continue along the road towards the Bauleiteck summit and the Rudolf Schober Hütte. The way forward takes you past the lake mentioned above, behind which you reach a couple of private huts. Continue along the road, which after a few minutes' walk leads to a marked crossroads. Continue right up the cart track, which begins to climb steeply. After a short climb, the path leads back to the road, which you follow to the next crossroads. Here you have two options for continuing: you can climb up to the hut either by road (straight ahead) or by a pleasant footpath that turns left. If you choose the 5 minute shorter walk, continue to the left and then, after a few steps, to the right, up along the stream. A beautiful path leads through pastures and, higher up, crosses the stream via a number of small bridges. The path, which has since turned into a forest, climbs steeply and leads us in a few minutes to the mountain home.
From home, we continue in the direction of Bauleiteck along the path, which climbs slightly and quickly leads us to the next crossroads on the path. Here, continue slightly to the left and follow the increasingly steep path, which climbs through increasingly sparse, mostly coniferous forest, to the next crossroads, where you continue to the left (Bauleiteck on the right). After a few more minutes of easy walking, the path leads you to the Unterer Wildenkarsee lake (lake Unterer Wildenkarsee).
The path then descends to the lake, which you cross at the end with the help of the stones in the water. On the other side of the lake, the path climbs quite steeply through lane of dwarf pines. The steepness then eases a little and the path takes us up a step with a beautiful view of the lake and the flowering meadows. Here the path flattens out and after a few dozen steps leads us to one of the most beautiful lakes in the high mountains.

On the way: Rudolf Schober Hütte (1667m), Unterer Wildenkarsee (1891m)

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