Parkirišče pri gostišču Feuerstein - Habicht (običajna pot mimo Innsbrucker Hütte (Feuerstein))

Access to the starting point:
From Ljubljana, take the motorway past Salzburg towards Munich. At the Dreieck Inntal multi-level junction, take the A93 towards Innsbruck/Kufstein/Brenner. On your return to Austria, continue to the Innsbruck-Mitte exit. Here, do not turn towards Innsbruck, but continue on the A13 motorway towards the Brenner Pass. Continue on the motorway until Matrei am Brenner, where you take exit 19-Matrei. Continue on the B182 to Steinach am Brenner, where you take the first exit at the roundabout in the middle of the town and continue on a gentle uphill drive through the picturesque Gschnitz valley past Trins and the village of Gschnitz to the large Feuerstein guesthouse near the "Miller's Village" attraction, where you park in a large, well-maintained parking lot.

An alternative is to drive through northern Itali: in this case, from central Slovenia, take the A2 motorway to one of the border crossings with Austria and continue to Lienz. Here you continue on the 100 road and pass the Prato alla Drava crossing into Itali. In Itali, follow the SS49 all the way to the junction with the A22 motorway in the direction of the Brenner Pass. After the pass, continue in the direction of Innsbruck, but only until you reach the exit for the B182 near the Brennersee. Continue on this road to Steinach am Brenner and from there follow the directions described above.

Path description:
From the parking lot, continue along the road leading into the Gschnitz valley for a few dozen metres and, near the roadblock and the Innersiller homestead, take the narrow marked path towards the Innsbrucker Hütte. After a short crossing of the forest slope, cross the forest road and continue on the marked, sometimes quite overgrown, path through the rich alpine meadows in the meanders. A moderate ascent gradually leads to open, increasingly exposed grassy slopes, where the track leads to a short crossing to the east. The still easy path soon leads to a lookout bench high above the Gschnitz valley, from where you can already see the hut on the slopes above you. Loosely following the route of the freight cable car along a narrow track cut into the grassy slope, we continue towards the Innsbrucker Hütte; just before the Pinnisjoch saddle, a stone's throw to the east of the hut, we are joined by an alternative approach from Gschnitz.
From the Feuerstein guesthouse it takes about 2. 15-2. 45 hours to reach the Innsbrucker Hütte. Although the route is a continuous climb and there is a considerable difference in altitude, the approach is not too strenuous. The alternative approach from near the centre of Gschnitz is slightly longer and more difficult, but slightly more scenic.

After the hut, continue on a winding track through a high mountain meadow, which soon turns into the relatively flat rocks of the Habicht side wall. Following a well-marked path over flat rocks, we climb up to a large cairn, from where we can clearly see the continuation of the path over the broad back of Habicht, and we also get a view of the attractive alpine lake of Alfaier below us. Descend slightly to the main building of Habicht and ascend moderately steeply to fixed safety gear, which helps you to cross the sharp rocks of the western flank of the mountain (difficult). After about 10 minutes of walking on a protected path, you find yourself above the edge of a high mountain valley, into which steep ravines drop. After a short, more gentle ascent, we climb with the help of a rope ladder over flat rocks to a short side ridge Habicht, over which, with fine views towards the hut, the northern and eastern part of Stubai Alps and Zillertal Alps, we approach the summit building of the Habicht massif. Habicht is the summit building of the Habicht massif.
Continue along the path over the Habicht rock rib, where you must occasionally use your hands to help yourself. After half an hour, a moderately steep climb leads us to a large platform below the summit, where we step onto the last remnants of the Habicht glacier. Snow is unavoidable here, even in high summer, but crossing the snowfield is relatively easy; given the popularity of the trail, we will always be guided by a clear trail in the high mountain season, and winter equipment is not usually needed then.
Above the glacier, follow the trail through the high mountain rocky world, which crosses to the west in a gentle ascent towards the clearly visible cross at the summit. Just below the summit, we approach the sometimes uncomfortably loose steel cables that will help us in the final part of the route. These are used to initially traverse airily over the precipitous slopes below the summit, before climbing steeply towards the large cross on the spacious summit, which rewards you for the climb with an extraordinary view.

The Habicht is one of the most popular of the Tyrolean triple peaks, thanks to its relatively low difficulty, its grandeur and its magnificent views. The ascent by the normal route past the Innsbrucker Hütte falls near the lower end of the very difficult routes (technically it could even be classified as "merely" difficult), although it is located in the otherwise still glacially intense Stubai Alps, it does not normally require the use of additional equipment, and the Innsbrucker Hütte offers us the favourable option of an overnight stay somewhere around the halfway point to the summit. Nevertheless, the climb is not to be underestimated: no matter where you start on Habicht, there are more than 2 000 metres of ascent and the paths are precipitous in places. Although the tour can be done in one day, I recommend a two-day trip, possibly including a visit to Lake Alfaier and the educational ferrata near the hut, or climbing the nearby Kalkwand or Ilmspitze.

On the way: Innsbrucker Hütte (2369m)

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