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Hike from the Tauplitzalm to the Ödernalm and Bad Mitterndorf

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This tour is dedicated to romantic nature lovers: along three mountain lakes you come across a wide rocky saddle and through a quiet valley to the banks of the Salzabach.
Many natural beauties await you on this tour: You walk across the idyllic Tauplitzalm, perhaps make a detour to the small mountain church with its stained glass windows, and arrive at Lake Tauplitz - it's a darkly shimmering moorland lake where dragonflies race. The meadows all around turn into a bright sea of flowers in early summer, where purple alpine rue, velvety blue gentian, hellebores and rock carnations bloom by the millions. 

Characteristics

Skill
Fitness
Experience
Scenery

Best season

January
February
March
April
May
November
December

The tour in numbers

medium
Level of difficulty
14,9 km
Route
4:15 h
Time
10 hm
Uphill
854 hm
Downhill
1656 m
Highest point
802 m
Lowest point

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More information

The journey to Tauplitz is best planned with google.at/maps. From there you can take the 4-seater chairlift to the high plateau.

By car, you can get to the Tauplitzalm from Bad Mitterndorf via the Tauplitzalm Alpine Road (toll).

You hike from the mountain station of the 4-seater chairban in an easterly direction, past the small mountain church.

 

At the Naturfreundehaus, the trail goes slightly downhill to Lake Tauplitz and from there in a westerly direction to Lake Großsee. Visitors love to linger there to feed the quacking ducks.

 

Continuing on, you soon come to the romantic Märchensee - an emerald green natural gem. Immediately afterwards you arrive at the Öderntörl, a wide rocky crossing between Schneiderkogel and Traweng. Here you hike on trail no. 272 into a quiet valley and follow the narrow trail downhill to the Ödernalm huts, which are located at 1,210 m above sea level.

Surefootedness is required!

 

Continue now on the forest road along the Salzabach stream, which slowly rushes downhill and soothes your senses with its murmur. After four kilometers you branch off at the raking place onto another forest road. From here, follow the marked route to Bad Mitterndorf and into the town center.

From Bad Mitterndorf you can get back to Tauplitz by bus or train.

The 4-seater chairlift to the Tauplitzalm is in operation from the end of June to the beginning of September.

 

From Tauplitz train station to the valley station of the 4-seater chairlift is about a 20-minute walk.The bus stop is located directly at the valley station.

There are plenty of free parking spaces available. 
Tourist Office Ausseerland-Salzkammergut
Information office Tauplitz
Tauplitz 70
8982 Bad Mitterndorf
+43 3688 24 46
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What the weather will be like

Bad Mitterndorf (800m)

Morning
13°C
5%
5 km/h
Noon
18°C
35%
10 km/h
Night
15°C
55%
5 km/h
Fair in the early morning, later variable with frequent showers.
Morning
11°C
35%
5 km/h
Noon
17°C
70%
5 km/h
Night
14°C
85%
5 km/h
Variable with showers in the beginning. The showers will turn into persistent rain in the afternoon.
05.06.2023
10°C 18°C
06.06.2023
10°C 20°C
07.06.2023
9°C 21°C

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