Totes Gebirge from Bad Ischl to Hinterstoder

The Dead Mountains are a mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps in the Eastern Alps in Upper Austria and Styria. This crossing leads through mountain forest of spruce, pine, larch and pine, oversized flower-filled meadows and in the area of high plateau on a heavily karstified and partially devoid of vegetation plateau with fossilized shells, snails and corals, sinkholes and caves.
Numerous variants and mountain climbing are possible. A start is also possible in the Loserhütte on Loser (Altausee). To the east can be done in an extension different versions Zellerhütte or Dümler hut. The excess of the western mountains dead leads in 4-5 days through the south of Upper Austria and Styria north of Bad Ischl to Hinterstoder.

Day 1: Arrival to Rettenbachtal and climb to the hut Ischl
Day 2: About the Schoenberg / Wildkogel to Wildensee and Appelhaus
Day 3: Passing the Wildgössl to Pühringerhütte with Elmsee
Day 4: About the Temelbergsattel to Prielschutzhaus
Day 5: down into the valley to Hinterstoder and home