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To Großer Schober and then all the way to Himmeleck


The hike was crazy, instead one peak we have hiked 4 peaks in total in less than 8h.

We started the hike in Wald am Schoberpass after 2 hours in the train, changing 3 trains to get to our destination. It has been awhile since I hiked with other people besides D.

The first part of the hike to Großer Schober (1895 m) went the hardest for me, not too steep, but smoothly through the forest, passing many bushes of wild blueberries, to reaching some houses and cows, 


to further continue through a smaller forest and lots of beautiful flowers, 


....with a view to the first peak. 


Once we were there, we had a short break for food and enjoying the view. 





The weather overall was not very good but also not bad, it was mainly cloudy and a bit cold on the mountains but refreshing. And we took our first group photo.


From Großer Schober, we continued our hike to Leistenhorn (1924 m), losing a bit of altitude just to gain it back.






From Leistenhorn we continued to Himmeleck (2096 m) where we had our second break for food and more group photos.






After Himmeleck we hiked to Himmelkogel (2017 m), and from there it was just going back and having a wonderful view of the other mountains in the area. I am already thinking of other mountains I would like to hike there; the area is very beautiful and worth visiting.


On the way back, we’ve met more cows and made it back just in time for the train.



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