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From Gstatterboden to the Ennstaler Hütte

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The fastest way to the oldest refuge in the Gesäuse.

From Gstatterboden via the open spaces of the Gstatterboden farmer and those of the Hörantalm up to the Ennstaler Hut.

On the descent simply hike over the Hochscheibenalm and make a nice little round tour.

From the National Park Pavilion in Gstatterboden, this hut hike leads alternately along forest roads, forest paths and open alpine meadows up to the oldest hut in the Gesäuse, the Ennstal Hut. If you think that you can quench your thirst only at the hut, you are mistaken! Already on the ascent path, which is very well marked by the way, you will pass two springs, which invite you to fill up your water bottles and take a short break. During the short breaks, which the sometimes steep ascent requires, you will enjoy incredible views of Lugauer, Zinödl, Planspitz, Hochtor, Reichenstein and Buchstein massifs and you will get the urge for further hikes. If you look carefully, you can even see the Hesshütte on the Ennseck saddle on the opposite side of the valley. Once you arrive at the top of the Enns Valley Hut, while eating the famous "Kaspressknödel" (cheese dumplings), you have to consider whether you should sleep one night at the hut and the next day focus on the Tamischbach Tower, the Tieflim Wall or the crossing into the Mühlbachgraben.

Characteristics

Skill
Fitness
Experience
Scenery

Best season

January
February
November
December

The tour in numbers

medium
Level of difficulty
14,7 km
Route
6:00 h
Time
966 hm
Uphill
976 hm
Downhill
1544 m
Highest point
578 m
Lowest point

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A9 Phyrn motorway to exit Ardning/Admont and from there past Frauenberg, approx. 10 km after Admont. Via the B146 (Gesäuse Bundesstraße) coming from the west into the Gesäuse.

Or via Leoben, Vordernberg and Eisenerz to Hieflau and from there via the B146 in a westerly direction into the Gesaeuse.

A1 Westautobahn to exit Ybbs and from there in southern direction through Scheibbs, Lunz am See, Göstling an der Ybbs and Palfau to Hieflau. From there via B146 in western direction into the Gesäuse.

For this hut hike there are two different ways:

On the one hand from the parking lot of the National Park Pavilion in Gstatterboden via trail no. 646 first up to the nearby chapel, from where you have a good view of the houses and the railway station.

Alternatively, you can start at the car park 800 m east of the National Park Pavilion and hike north along a forest road until you reach the other access path after a few hundred metres. The marked hiking trail then leads you, now and then through the woods and briefly somewhat steeper, directly up to the Gstatterbodenbauer, an alpine pasture where cows graze.

The next ½ hour you follow the forest road (Hochscheiben MTB Tour) until you reach the Kropfbründl after about one kilometre. A little later you reach the crossroads Kroisn, where you have to decide which way you want to go to the Ennstaler Hütte. The fastest way, which we therefore also recommend for the ascent, leads in a northerly direction to the Hörantalm (934 m), where you can see not only cows but also the Planspitz behind you.

Now the path climbs steeper through beautiful mixed forest - once you hike along a forest road for a short time - past Butterbründl to the Ennstaler Hut. After a break, you can follow trail 642 along a partly steep forest path to the beautifully situated Hochscheibenalm. From there you follow the Hochscheiben-MTB trail (=forestry road) in western direction to the Kroissenalm, where you can recharge your batteries one last time before the circuit closes again at the Kroisn crossroads (5 min from the managed alpine pasture) and you follow the ascent trail to the starting point.

Sleep one night at the hut and on the next day take aim at the Tamischbach Tower, the Tieflimauer or the crossing into the Mühlbachgraben.
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A free parking lot with information boards is located at the National Park Pavilion in Gstatterboden. Just under a kilometre to the east is another car park with information boards. The paths that start from the different starting points then (as described in the text) come together after a few hundred metres.
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What the weather will be like

Landl (522m)

Morning
cloudy
6°C
70%
0 km/h
Noon
sunny
14°C
10%
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Night
foggy
7°C
85%
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Rather dry after morning showers die away. Light rain will start again in the afternoon.
Morning
sunny
4°C
5%
5 km/h
Noon
slightly cloudy
19°C
0%
10 km/h
Night
slightly cloudy
15°C
0%
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Dry and partly sunny throughout the day, with cloudy periods from time to time.
30.03.2024
sunny
8°C 24°C
31.03.2024
slightly cloudy
8°C 21°C
01.04.2024
cloudy
7°C 17°C

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