Long-distance hike Eagle Walk Stage O7: Sudetendeutsche Hütte - Kalser Tauernhaus

We are approaching his majesty, the Großglockner, with big steps. Just getting there is like reaching a summit. We walk towards our stage destination "Kalser Tauernhaus" in the face of the Granatspitz group. But before setting off in the morning, don't forget to ask the hut owner about the path conditions and snowfields.

Description

Route description: From the Sudeten German hut you hike past the memorial cross and the small mountain lake near the hut over grassy ridges and mossy hollows up to the drainage area of the Gradötzkees, where a lake has also accumulated and mighty moraines characterize the landscape. Finally you reach the Gradötzsattel (2,826 meters), after which you descend towards the so-called Bloipalfen (2,684 meters). Continue downhill over a meadow and gorge-like rocks.

At an altitude of around 2,500 meters, the Silesiaweg branches off to the left. It takes just a few minutes to walk up to the rocky Muntanitzschneid with its magnificent views, but if you stay on the Adlerweg, you keep to the right and finally reach the Muntanitzbach, which is not so easy to cross - especially not on dry feet - when the water level is high. A little above the Ochsenalm area, you walk around the exposed ridge of the Muntanitzschneid. The path is well developed here, with a small bend in the lower part and a rocky section. The trail then descends over meadow slopes and crosses a small Swiss stone pine forest to the north. You finally reach a signpost for the bridge over the Stotzbach stream with its tributary Loamesbach.

At the signpost a little lower down, choose the descent, marked 514 A, to the Kalser Tauernhaus. On numerous narrow hairpin bends, you now hike along the Wilhelm-Ernst-Weg between alders, ash trees and larches, zigzagging down into the valley, past the National Park viewing platform, where a waterfall from the Stotzbach stream swirls over a trough shoulder created by ice-age glaciers. Finally, you cross the Dorferbach stream to the stage destination, the comfortably furnished Kalser Tauernhaus (1,755 meters). This is located at the back of the Dorfertal valley, just a short distance below the point where the Stotzbach flows into the Dorferbach. For route descriptions, see also: "Osttiroler Wanderbuch" by Walter Mair.