Great hike with 4 peaks - Hahnstein (1.697 m), Kreuzkogel (2.011 m), Riffel (2.106 m), and Kalbling (2.196 m)

Excitement describes me best when it comes to hiking, and especially hiking two days. Is the first two days hike this year and unfortunately the last one.

We started not super early but early enough, drove to Castle Kaiserau where we parked our car and started our adventure into the wild.

On our way to the first peak we’ve met a large group of chamois,

lost our way,

to finally make it, although it was quite foggy and could not see much.

Hahnstein (1.697 m)

After spending quite some time there, we hiked to the second peak Kreuzkogel, the difference in altitude was not that much but I was having difficulties. After reaching the second peak I was quite happy knowing we won’t have to hike the 1000 m in altitude today anymore.

Kreuzkogel (2.011 m)

The view was amazing, I did not expect that these mountains, although they are not that high, are so beautiful. Austrian mountains never chase to impress me.

The hike to the third peak, Riffel, was a bit dangerous, there was a part like via ferrata. We didn’t have the equipment we needed as we did not know it will be like that. In the end we made it, nobody was injured, although some stones were set loose and almost hit my boyfriend.

Riffel (2.106 m)

After Riffel we only managed to hike one more peak, Kalbling, due to time. It was either one more peak or food. We decided food is more important and so we started our descent to the Klinke-Hütte.