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Walking Meadow & woodland walks from Mirlhof. These are shown in the local maps, which are kept on the bookcase in the living room. Three walks, all starting from the road to the hamlet of Prenten: Prenten is the cluster of farm houses at the top of the road from the valley where you turn left at the milk churn shelter. 1 just before the little wooden shrine, up the hill through the woods, turning west toward Lengdorf 2 across the hamlet, going east through woods toward St Martin, where there is a large Gasthaus (halfway there, a detour beyond the hydro station, on the other side of the river, goes to a pool in the river suitable for swimming ). 3 Left at the milk churns through the barrier to the lake between steep mountains, where swimming is possible 60 min walk [or 30 min. bike ride] from the house, boats/canoes to rent and turning right after the main road junction at the lake end, a health club with superb apfelstrudel The Gasthaus on the way up to Prenten is an easy walk from the house for friendly good value home-cooking by Frau Fessler (they speak only German).
Other walks around half an hour drive from the house. There are a vast number of well sign-posted easy or relatively undemanding walks, some through quiet valleys, some on upper meadows, others high altitude walking following contours. The access to some of these is by private toll roads, generally well worth the E4 or so. Two-day walks generally involve moderate ascents. Most of these are well documented on various maps in the house.
Recommended walks include : Quiet valleys - walks in the Obertal and in the Untertal [south of Schladming], (good also for biking) and [south from Grobming] in the Kleinsolk and in the Solktal from St Nikolai, around the Bodensee [south of Aich in the Ennstal], and (busier but with plenty of swimming) on the south side of Grundlsee and Tolplitzee [at the southern margin of the Salzkammergut].
Upper meadows - walks on south side of the Dachsteins, from Ramsau valley above Schladming [most pleasant access is by driving through Weisenbach, turn-off just past Jet station], various walks there from three Gasthauses - Austria Hutte (one of Austria Alpine Club’s oldest huts) and two further west, at Walcher Alm and Bachl Alm, and the many walks in the valleys above Filzmoos further west, south of the busy Hofpurgl Hutte.
High altitude contouring - west from the top of the Stoderzinken toll road [from the west end of Grobming], and from the carpark by the Schladminger Hutte (an Austria Alpine Club inn) on Planai [south of Schladming], also accessed by a toll road.
Two-day walks (one night in hut - take bedlinen – E15 including evening meal - turn up, don’t bother booking) · between Austria Hutte up to Dachstein-Sudwand Hutte and countouring east-west e.g. in a loop below the Hohe Dachstein mountain. · from the eastern end of the Ramsau valley up to Guttenberg Haus (another Austria Alpine Club hut) at 2146 Km and west across toward the glacier region e.g. coming down to the Austria Hutte. · from carpark at the end of the Untertal to Gollinghutte across by a summit (Greifenberg 2618m) and high moraine lakes to Preintalerhutte descending past a lake (and swimming) to the car. Several days round-trip · a spectacular walk around the Gosaukaum via three Alpine Club huts Hofpurglhutte, Gablonzer Hutte, and the untouristy, primitive but very charming Theodor-Korner Hutte (there is a 1:10000 Club map of this route). · a high alm walk NE of the house, from Grundlesee and Toplitzsee into the Totes Gebirge. · a more demanding and less well marked five day walk in the Schladminger Tauern due south of the house, starting with the first night at the Breitlahnhutte [reached from the end of the Kleinsolk] via Preintalerhutte, Hans-Wodl Hutte, and Krummholzhutte before down to Haus in the Ennstal.
Visiting elsewhere. There are guidebooks to Austria in the house. Salzburg to the north, Bad Ischl and Hallstadt 45 min. to the NE, and Villach - half an hour from the Italian border - are all pretty towns or beautiful cities. At Obertraun near Hallstatt there are impressive ice caves, and the World Heritage site of Hallstatt itself, famous for its lake side village and mountain setting, as well as museums showing Celtic artefacts and the salt-mine. Graz to the SE is equally worth going to, and just to the north of it (at Stubing) there is the national open-air folk museum of traditional rural houses and farm buildings brought there from all over Austria and re-built among meadows and woods. Vienna is 3 to 4 hours drive (the train there goes through the Enns valley), with good city camp-sites. The Post Hotel is a good reasonably priced hotel in a central location. The drive to Budapest is quite long (6+ hours, bypassing Graz) because of single lane roads once driving in Hungary - but the city is definitely worth the effort. Czech towns north of the Danube are considerably nearer (note - rental car insurance usually excludes some East European countries unless specifically arranged). Autobahns to south make access to Italy easy: Trieste is about 3 1/2 hours drive, the car park on the island of Venice is 4 hours drive, (where there is a good youth hostel), the centre of Padua is 45 min.further, Verona and its opera in the amphitheatre is another half hour beyond (it has a good city campsite but ‘sites on the shores of Lake Garda are less than 1 hour distant). All autostradas and some tunnels south have a toll; for Italy, fill up with petrol before leaving Austria as it’s much cheaper.
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