🇦🇹 Salzkammergut Lakes & Dachstein-Glacier 🇦🇹

In Austria, the mountains 🏔️ are calling and we must go.

After the success of our last year Switzerland and Black Forest hikes we are following the yearly tradition with exploring the most beautiful regions of Europe. This May we will visit the breath taking Salzkammergut region.

Please read the whole description before signing up for this event!

During the panorama hiking tour from North to South you experience the most beautiful facets of the Salzkammergut-region: Starting from the gentle hills on Lake Traunsee all the way into the mountain region of the Dachstein-glacier, this hiking tour leads you from the ‚outer‘ into the ‚inner´ Salzkammergut. You proceed via high-altitude paths and rugged peaks onto the high-plateau of the Höllengebirge-mountain range and onwards into the imperial town Bad Ischl. Then along the tracks of Empress Sissi to the turquoise-blue Lake Wolfgangsee and up to the Postalm, Austria’s largest alpine pasture area. Finally once again alpine flair awaits when crossing the ravine ‚Gosaukamm‘ – with the impressive Dachstein-glacier always in broad view.

Find the detailed itinerary and booking link here.

Exact date for the trip: 24 May 2025 - 31 May 2025

• 24 May 2025 (Saturday) Traunsee (Arrival on your own)
• 25 May 2025 (Sunday) Traunsee
• 26 May 2025 (Monday) Traunsee - Bad Ischl
• 27 May 2025 (Tuesday) Bad Ischl - Wolfgangsee
• 28 May 2025 (Wednesday) Wolfgangsee - Postalm
• 29 May 2025 (Thursday) Postalm - Gosau
• 30 May 2025 (Friday) Gosau
• 31 May 2025 (Saturday) Departure on your own

This is an organized trip by a highly reputable company I already used. These trips are self-guided, aka you will never meet with them, they do all the reservations for you, a custom phone app will be provided which not just contains the trails but point of interest along the way.

They offer a lot of trails even in this region, I have picked the cheapest one which is moderate (daily 12km avg) to accommodate causal hikers as well. Those of us who are up for additional challenges there will be plenty of extra trails what we can do on our own in this region, eg.: the group can split up, some of us do a hard trail the rest sticks with the normal.

The package is reasonably priced, all the hotels along the way are included. This is not a circular hike but a point A to B trail, the company will take care of your luggage transfers (you can bring a suitcase up to 20kg) all you need to do is show up at the first hotel and hike every day, the hotels are in general ⭐⭐⭐ stars with breakfast always included. This is the best way to experience nature's tranquility 🌲 far away from the busy cities, no need to spend 2-3 hours or more on traveling to the starting point of a hike and going back at the end of the day, we wake up, have a breakfast and go.

How to get there: the only good option is flying, there is a night train from Koblenz which cost you more than the flight, Flixbus only there and takes 12 hours or drive down there which can be around 8 hours. With this connecting flight through Frankfurt you will be there in 3h45:

✈️ Luxembourg to Salzburg 14:30 LUX -> 18:15 SZG (LH 5643)
✈️ Salzburg to Luxembourg 10:30 SZG ->13:50 LUX (LH 1103)

Everything is detailed on their webpage, therefore I will not make another one for this, Telegram group for the event is already open. After you submit your booking to Eurohike it can take up to 1 week until they process it. Do not book any train/plane tickets before they confirm your reservation. When booking in the description just enter: Peter's group and chose the digital map only, there is a small discount for those who book until the end of February. They will try to put us into the same hotels or hotels nearby.

I have created a carpool group for the intent as well. The rest of us who ✈️ there depending on the group size we can just book a minibus transfer in advance to the start/from the end destinations and split the cost.

I have posted this event already because currently (January) the plane ticket is still affordable so those who are committed to come are better making arrangements as soon as possible. You can expect the price of ticket to 5x and although the trail package will not increase in price (it's fix price per season, May being the cheapest) they already told me that they are getting full as many hikers booked this trail last year in advance. RSVP stays open until they still have capacity to accommodate people. This is not a first come first served event, it is a late come not served 😅. I can help carrying hiking sticks in my checked in bag (as they are not allowed in carry on bags) so you can get away with the cheapest light 8kg carry on bag if you wish. Everybody is coming for their own responsibility.

Please only RSVP for the hike if you already signed up with them and your booking is confirmed for the hike and 100% that you will participate.

See you in May. 🧀 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️🥾