Wide gravel roads and narrow paths alternate on the long, sporty tour around Rauschberg and Kienberg.
Wide gravel roads and narrow paths alternate on the long, sporty tour around Rauschberg and Kienberg.
Tour description:
Route: Laubau - Taubensee - golf course - Infang - Oberhausen - near Inzell - Kienau - Schmelz - Wildenmoos - Zwing - Himmelsleiter - Weißenbach - Reiteralm - Keitl-Alm - Schwarzachenalm - Laubau
This sporty circuit begins very gently: You follow the best paths from the starting point at the car park in Laubau over the Taubensee and along the golf course and Windbach via Infang and Oberhausen in constant ups and downs to Inzell . Before Inzell you come to a larger asphalt road and follow it south to Schmelz. There is a nice children's playground here, and the car park is also an alternative starting point for the tour. On a fine gravel road, the tour leads through the lonely Wildenmoos and halfway around the steep Kienbergl to Zwing. Here you drive far above the main road and the glacier garden to the so-called "Himmelsleiter" and push down a few meters here. Attention, there are usually many hikers on the way. Arriving in Weißbach, the long and strenuous climb up the steep Maisenberg to the Reiteralm begins. After a gate, it's back in the forest through the nature reserve between Hinterer and Vorderer Schwarzachen to the Keitl-Alm. You whiz downhill along the Hintere Schwarzachen - first to the west, soon to the north, where the circuit closes again in Laubau.
PS: You can start the round just as well from the town center in Ruhpolding (TI at the train station or at the Egglbrücke) or in Inzell (preferably in Zwing).
Highlights: the mystical Wildenmoos, the ride on a narrow path high above the glacier garden near Zwing, the nature reserve around the Schwarzachenalm
Information: Tourist Info Ruhpolding, Bahnhofstraße 8, Tel. 0 86 63/8 80 60, www.ruhpolding.de
The woodcutters' museum (Laubau) offers fascinating insights into the life of hardship and the dangerous work of the woodcutters (lumberjacks, foresters) in the former saline region of Traunstein. On the large outdoor area, you will feel like you have been transported back to a bygone era in the lovingly prepared wooden rooms, the original workshops and through interactive stations: www.holzknechtmuseum.com
On the B305 in the direction of Reit im Winkl to the district of Laubau / Holzknechtmuseum car park
With the regional train from Traunstein to Ruhpolding.
In Ruhpolding with the Dorfline or the RVO bus (Regionalverkehr Oberbayern) to the starting point in Laubau.
Below the highest mountain in the Chiemgau Alps – the Sonntagshorn – is the idyllically located Schwarzachen Alm at 770 m.
Learn more