Difficulty:
medium
Length:
6.1 km
Duration:
3:00 h
Elevation uphill:
600 m
Ginzling - Jausenstation Gamsgrube - Gasthof Karlsteg - Finkenberg
In Ginzling, walk past the church and the little grocery shop. Stay on the left-hand side of the stream, walking through the village of Dornauberg and soon arriving at a flat path that leads across the meadows. Follow it until Hof Strahnbach farmstead, where you must continue straight on along the road on a now upward course to the Gamsgrube inn. Continue the gentle climb to reach a fork in the road. While the trail turns off to the Gams Hut, Via Alpina follows the track straight on across the meadows. A gently undulating course finally takes you to the Karlsteg inn, which also marks the end of the "from Karlsteg to Breitlahner" theme trail in the "Lass dir erzählen!" nature park series (approx. 1 h 15 min). Cross the road from Ginzling to Mayrhofen and follow a track on the right-hand side over the avalanche defence structure into which the road disappears. On coming down again, cross the road and also the Zemmbach stream once more and follow a steep, sharply bending track uphill through the wood. The track soon becomes flatter, however, and a leisurely walk takes you through the mixed mountain woodland strewn with block stones to Finkenberg. In the village of Dornau, keep to the right and follow the "Glocke Rundwanderweg" hiking trail through beautiful surroundings for a while before arriving at the little graveyard, where the Tuxbach stream must be crossed to arrive directly in the centre of Finkenberg.
