Saalachtal Tour SHORT - 1st Hiking day

Start Huggenberg chair lift

Huggenbergalm (rest point)

Berggasthof Biberg (rest point)

Saalachtaler Höhenweg

Weikersbacher Köpfl

Durchenkopf

Sausteige

Jahnhütte (no service)

Maishofen

At the bottom station of the Huggenberg lift, you can use the chairlift to ascend to Huggenberg or follow the goods path on foot. The first destination is the Biberg mountain inn. Continue along the Saalachtaler Höhenweg along the mountain ridge and to the summit of the Durchenkopf, towards the Haiderbergkogel. Here you follow the signs „zur Sausteige“ and leave the Saalachtaler Höhenweg. You then reach the summit cross of the Sausteige. With a view of the „Zeller lake“, you now descend „to Maishofen“ via the Gstallneralm, the Gadenstättalm and the Stablberg snack station.

Alternative variants: After the Weikersbacher Köpfl 1616 m, the path branches off to the left to the Örgenbauernalm  (Variation C).

After another 20 minutes you'll have the next opportunity to take a left to a shorter (Variation B) of the day's hike to Maishofen.