LAKES, PEAKS AND BLISTERS 🥾: Long-distance hiking in Austria, Salzkammergut

Lakes, peaks and blisters – we just returned from our first long-distance hiking experience. And what would have been a better place for that, than the fairly new BergeSeen Trail in our home region, the Salzkammergut. It not only loops through untouched nature, but leads to some of Austria’s culturally and historically most interesting towns (like Gmunden, Hallstadt, St. Wolfgang,…) and connects no fewer than 35 lakes (like Traunsee, Attersee, Mondsee, Fuschlsee,…). During our 5 day long hike – we covered a quarter of the whole trail – we had the goal to jump into every lake on the way, no matter how refreshing it was.

Lucky us, we were accompanied by a highly motivated team and two professional Austrian/German mountaineers, Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner and Ralf Dujmovits, who both have climbed all 8.000ers without oxygen supply. When do you ever get the chance to ask someone about how it feels to camp in a snow storm on top of Alaska’s highest peak?

We’re totally hooked and can’t recommend long-distance hiking enough. If you have any recommendations for us, please drop them in the comments! For details about the BergeSeen Trail or our home region, the Salzkammergut, feel free to drop us a line or visit trail.salzkammergut.at.

Most of the trail’s stages can be done as a day trip as well. So here are the locations you can see in the video:
03:00 Gmunden (at the Traunsee)
04:39 Vorderer and Hinterer Langbathsee
05:24 Taferlklaussee
06:11 Weißenbach (at the Attersee)
07:10 Gschwandtner Hütte at Moosalm („Bauernkrapfen“, flowers and cows), around 20 minutes from Schwarzensee
07:56 Strobl (at Wolfgangsee)
08:40 St. Wolfgang (Church, at Wolfgangsee)
09:15 Schafberg (Schafbergbahn)
09:52 Almkogel (with view of Mondsee)
10:30 Schober (ruin and 360° view of 7 lakes and various mountain peaks)

Stay curious!
Doris & Matthias

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