Fellhorn

1,764 mvia Reit im Winkl

My longest hike so far: 17.9 km, once across the border into Austria and back. Early on the weather looked meh, around noon it really cleared up.

17.90km loop

1,107elevation gain

1,764m summit

5:06 hmoving time

T4SAC scale

Before you go

Quick notes for your backpack brain.

Parking: Down in Blindau, €5 day fee.
Food stop: Straubinger Haus at 1,558 m, just below the summit. Kaiserschmarrn €14.90 — a solid 7.5 out of 10.
The trailhead: The hardest part was finding it at all: narrow, inconspicuous, barely marked until the gravel road. Look at it carefully beforehand.
What it’s like: Long rather than steep. From the Straubinger Haus another 40 minutes over rock and roots. At the top: grass, still really green in September.
The descent: Gravel road, then the concrete road at the Hemmersuppenalm — so steep that your knees lose out.

The whole loop as a video on Instagram — starting point in Maps.

HikedSep 13

My take.

Got up at four, at the parking lot at half six — and then first we had to look for the path. In the morning the weather didn’t look that crazy, around noon it really cleared up. At the top the Wilder Kaiser, the Steinplatte, all of it. Down via the concrete road at the Hemmersuppenalm: so steep that my kneecaps still hold it against me today.

— Sebi

7:23 hon the trail

28,654steps

111 bpmavg. heart rate

5:06 hmoving

2,664kcal

The long daySunday, Sep 13 Got up 4:00 → back at the car 14:04

4:00 got up
6:41 set off from the parking lot
around noon at the summit, weather clear
14:04 back at the car

7:23 h from bottom to bottom, a good five of them moving. The last 1.3 kilometers from the Straubinger Haus alone ate up 40 minutes.

Two portions of Kaiserschmarrn with apple sauce on the terrace of the Straubinger Haus, mountains and leaning hiking poles behind. — **Straubinger Haus**€14.90 — a solid 7.5 out of 10

Elevation profileLoop Start 690 m → summit 1,764 m → back

Fellhorn · 1,764 m

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RouteRecorded track Start → Fellhorn · 1,764 m

Start Fellhorn

Distance 17.84 km

Elevation 690 → 1,764 m

Recorded track

PhotosFellhorn

View from the Fellhorn to the Wilder Kaiser: pale rock walls under a blue sky, wooded ridges and mountain meadows in front. — **Wilder Kaiser** This is why you get up at four

An open notebook at the summit with a handwritten entry and a Smashie sticker stuck on it, the drop beside it. — **Wilder Kaiser** This is why you get up at four

Sebi at the summit of the Fellhorn, the summit cross and green mountain meadows in the background. — **Halfway** At the top after 8.8 km — and just as much downhill to go

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