grimming hut enns valley alpine walking tour report

7,5	Kilometer - KM
341	Altimeter total
4	Experience value (1-5)
2-3	Difficulty (1-5)

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Especially for children is the walk from the castle Trautenfels to the Grimming hut very interesting. Even after the car park directly outside the castle Trautenfels you can walk through the courtyards of the palace. There are already offers a good view to the east of the Enns Valley and down to Liezen. On the western side it is a very nice little playground for children. After about a half kilometer you will pass a farm. In addition to the Grimming-pig you can also observe some chickens. From time to time you can stroke a cat.

A few hundred meters further you come parallel with the normal walking path on the Bible path to the Protestant Church ruin - Neuhaus. These existing only from the plans memorial to remind us that the coexistence of the two Christian faiths in Austria was not always so peaceful.

The steepest part of the hike tour with 250 altimeter from km 1.5-3 offers rocky trails and forest roads. At km 3 you need only to go a few meters away from the walking path on a meadow to enjoy the wonderful view to Irdning, Donnersbachwald and Öblarn. The last meters to the Grimming hut are again very flat, and here we have a good view from the bottom to the mountain top Grimming. The Grimming cabin on almost 1000Hm has a wonderful sunny place. Continuous opening times from June to September, and in May and October - Saturday, Sunday and public holiday. With children you need for this wonderful walking tour about 1h15min. The Grimming lodge can also be used as a quarter for the night before and after an ascent of the Grimming summit.

If these short hike tour to Grimming hut is too short, may as an alternative walk to the Tressenstein at 1198Hm. From the Grimming hut to Tressenstein and back, you should plane at least an additional time with 1h:30min. Back in Trautenfels offers at the foot of the castle Trautenfels a fish restaurant in the middle of ponds for recreation and refreshment.

The Grimming is a 2351m high mountain in Upper Styria between the Enns Valley and the Salzkammergut Ausseerland. Because of its imposing appearance, the highest freestanding mountain in Europe has long been regarded as the highest mountain in Styria. From the summit of the Ennstal Grimming rises steeply around 1700m. Geologically, the Grimming belongs to the Dachstein massif and consists of Dachstein limestone.

The most popular routes on the Grimming are from Trautenfels or Niederstuttern the South-variant on the Grimming hut. From Kulm in Tauplitz / Bad Mitterndorf behind the ski flying facility starts the northern route. And from Trautenfels you can also go first to Multereck and eastern pre-peak 2176m and then to the Grimming on the eastern route. The Grimming is not an easy mountain to hike. It is more for climbing. Depending on your condition should be scheduled for a mountain tour of the Grimming about 5-8 hours, you should be dizzy and very slippery. Beginners should take at best, an experienced mountain guide and set up a helmet because of the danger of falling rocks. On all the mountain climbing tours are technically difficult passages.

The Grimming hut is the only farmed hut on Grimming and is located in the south of the summit on the Enns valley side at an altitude of 996m. Continuous opening times from June to September and on Saturday, Sunday from May to October. With children the easy hike from Trautenfels to the Grimming hut is creating in the specified time of 1h15min. The Grimming hut can also be used as quarters for the night before and after an ascent of Grimming.

The Grimmingtor on the southern side in Enns valley is worth seeing specificity. The Grimmingtor is about 50 meters high and 15m wide wall cavity which is closed above from a ledge. According to a legend, hidden behind the Grimmingtor untold treasures. On Corpus Christi will be a legend to open the gate and give the treasure hunters intake. A small or dwarf male leads here through the interior of Grimming. Who will not return before the lunch bell and leaves the Grimming will be trapped for a year.

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