Erlspitze

We started very early in the morning shortly after 5:00 am since the weather was forcasted to be very hot. We drove to Hochzirl by car and from there we rode our mountain bikes towards Solsteinhaus. We left our bikes at the end of the forest road and hiked the last 1 1/2 hours to Solsteinhaus. At Solsteinhaus we had a short break, filled up our water bottles before continuing the hike to Eppziler Scharte where the Via Ferrata to Erlspitze starts. The Via Ferrata was very easy (mostly A and B), except for one short passage with difficulty C. At 9:45 we arrived the summit of Erlspitz where we enjoyed the beautiful scenary. We took the same way down to our bikes and were very happy that we did not have to d0 the long walk down to the car.

Today's route












From Solsteinhaus to Eppzirler Scharte




View from Eppzirler Scharte to Eppzirler Alm (Karwendel)



Pictures taken from the Via Ferrata







At the summit





On the way down

Brandjoch South Ridge

We started our hike at 5:30 at Hungerburg. From there we hiked to Höttinger Alm. Right after Hungerburg a small dark cat accompanied us and despite our efforts to make it turn around it followed us almost to Höttinger Alm.



Höttinger Alm with Vordere Brandjochspitze and Frau Hitt in the background



From Höttinger Alm we hiked west to Brandjochboden and from there to Brandjochkreuz (2268 m)





Brandjochkreuz





After a short break we continued via Brandjoch South Ridge to Vorderes Brandjochkreuz.

Climbing the Brandjoch South Ridge







The first of two cruces - The Chimney

















The second of two cruxes - The Jump

Me after the jump





Waiting for the other to come



Due to his back problems my father preferred to climb down secured by a rope.







My mother climbing down



Matthias on the way to the jump





... jumping







Summit of Vordere Brandjochspitze (2558 m)



View into the Karwendel



From Vordere Brandjochspitze we descended via Julius Pock Steig (East Ridge, normal way) to Frau Hitt Saddle.



Frau Hitt



While my parents hiked from Frau Hitt Saddle to Seegrube, Matthias and I continued our tour with a climb of Frau Hitt.

Me and Matthias at the summit of Frau Hitt





From Frau Hitt we continued via the second section of "Innsbrucker Klettersteig" (Via Ferrata Innsbruck) to Langer Sattel. From there we took the Schmidhubersteig to Seegrube.

View of Innsbruck from Seegrube