Kaiser Franz Joseph Steig

The impostante and long sport via ferrata is modern and exemplary built, leads through the 860m high sea wall and waits at the end still with a photogenic rope bridge.

4 hours, 880 vertical meters

The most difficult via ferrata sections await you on the entrance wall with two D crossings.

This is followed by the rest area "ERZBERGBLICK" and an easy left traverse into the forest terrain Kaisersteig. Here is also an exit point (Kaisersteig) with easy A/B descent.

After about 200 m you reach the main pillar, which leads in steadily increasing difficulty C/D to the Schwalbennest rest area.

Then it goes over a gully (C) and a slab pillar (B C C) to the Eagle's Nest - rest area.

Attention now follows the extremely exposed headwall C D and two short pillars (C/D and C) over which you reach the Ochsenbrand with the climbing book. After about 200 meters of altitude over steep meadows you reach the last section. This leads over two pillars (B/C and C) and the double rope bridge reaches the exit.

DESCENT:

2 hours, 1000 meters of altitude

From the exit, follow the marked path northwards until you reach the junction with the hiking trail to Hochblaser. Here you keep to the left and descend via the marked trail (trail 822, secured, points A) to the lake outlet.

ALTERNATIVE DESCENT:

After the exit it takes about 1 hour to reach the summit of the Hochblaser (1771m) and on the marked path via the Hassenwilzinghütte (not managed, 1346m) and the so-called Geißstall into the Seeau and along the lake back to the parking lot (from Hochblaser summit another 3 hours).