Obermoos - Wiener Neustädter Hütte

Access to the starting point:
Drive through the Karavanke Tunnel into Austria, then continue to Spittal and on to Lienz (the motorway ends a little after Spittal). We continue along a relatively nice and wide road through the Drava Valley, which leads us into Itali. The road continues past Dobbiaco/Toblach and Brunico/Bruneck. We continue on the main road and then join the motorway towards Austria (direction Brenner, Innsbruck). In Innsbruck, follow the motorway westwards along the Inn River (direction Innsbruck-West at the motorway junction). Leave the motorway at the exit for the Fernpaß Pass. Continue over the pass and when the road starts to descend, turn right towards Ehrwald (there are also signs for Zugspitze at the exit). As you pass through Ehrwald, the road to the Ehrwalder Almbahn first branches off to the right. Continue straight on at the junction and you will soon come to a crossroads where you turn right towards the Tiroler Zugspitzbahn. Park in the parking lot at the bottom station of the gondola.

Path description:
From the parking lot, continue past the lower cable car station past the signs "Zugspitze / Wiener Neustädter Hütte". At the beginning, the path turns slightly to the right and then to the left to cart track, which runs along a grassy slope next to a forest. Climb for a while and then reach a crossroads where signs direct you left to dwarf pines. On the way through dwarf pines there is more and more torrential sand and soon a sign on a rock directs us slightly right onto a slightly better path on grassy terrain. From the path we have a fine view of the mountains to the west of Ehrwald, but the view of the nearby precipitous cliffs of the Schneefernerkopf is also getting better.
The path then soon leads to scree and begins to climb a little more steeply. The path then turns slightly to the left and briefly climbs again on a slightly more vegetated slope. Higher up, the scree once again becomes scree, which is climbed for some time in switchbacks. To the left of the path, you will also see a few buildings of the old cableway.
Further on, the path leads us to the slopes below the cableway where there is also a marked crossroads. At the crossroads, continue straight on, and the path to the left leads down towards Lake Eibsee. The path, which is occasionally protected by a steel cable, then crosses the slightly steeper northern slopes. Later, the path turns right and there is only a short climb to the Wiener Neustädter Hütte.

We can extend the trip to the following destinations: Zugspitze (2 h 30 min)

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