Schladming

Aberg Tour

Data:

Wegsperre Aberg in Pichl

Due to logging work, the section of the path over the Aberg is currently closed.

Tour description

This walking tour takes you through Pichl and accross the Aberg hill. The tour runs along beautiful meadows on the sunny side of Ennstal valley. Also you pass by some beautifully situated farms.

The tour

partially open

easy

Starting and end point Freizeitsee Pichl or Hotel Pichlmayrgut

Tour characteristics

Fitness (2/6)

Skills (2/6)

Information

Distance: 5.8 km

Duration: 2 h

Ascent: 205 m

Descent: 205 m

highest point: 953 m

Best season

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Map, elevation profile & further information

From the hiking trail head at the Pichl leisure lake, go through the underpass at Pichl train station and up to the Pichlmayrgut hotel. Right through the hotel complex and past the stables, you cross over to Vorbergstrasse to connect to path #615. You now walk uphill along the Pichlbach stream, crossing Vorbergstrasse once. At the crossroads with Panoramaweg 100, follow this westwards to the 4th bend of Vorbergstrasse and hike downhill to the 3rd bend. Here you turn off onto the field path that takes you south to the Aberg. The path then leads into the forest and down the southern slope of the Aberg. Here you come across another field path that takes you westwards over 2 bends down to Grubweg. You follow this downhill to the Pichl elementary school. From there you hike slightly uphill along the dirt road and a beautiful footpath to the Hotel Pichlmayrgut and from there on the familiar path back to the starting point.

Exit from the federal highway B320 in Pichl (approximately 4.5 km west of Schladming) and follow the signts to Freizeitsee Pichl.Parking is available at Freizeitsee Pichl.

The trail head at Freizeitsee Pichl can be reached from Schladming via the buses of Postbus.

www.postbus.at

The trail head can also be reached via train (station Pichl an der Enns).

www.oebb.at

Changes in weather patterns, quick falls in temperature, thunderstorms, wind, fog and snow are some of the dangers that can be encountered on a hiking tour. Hosts of alpine huts and mountain refuges have a lot of experience in the mountains and can give good advice about weather and the trails. Poor equipment, overestimation of one's own capabilities, carelessness, poor personal constitution and/or wrong judgement can lead to critical situations. In case of thunderstorms: avoid summits, ridges and steel ropes.

GPS data and orienteering

Available GPS data - just like hiking maps - is only a guidance for orientation and can never depict a trail exactly with all its details. Especially at dangerous spots it is essential to judge on site how to proceed.

In an emergency please call:

140 - for Alpine emergencies (all over Austria)
112 - European GSM emergency number

Good walking shoes and custom-fit Nordic Walking poles are the standard equipment. We also recommend a belt for carrying a drinking bottle.

Info about buses: www.rvb.at and www.postbus.at

Hiking map ‘Hiking WEST’ available at the information offices in the region.
Schladming hiking map, 1:25,000, available at the Schladming information office.
Hiking map Schladming-Dachstein, 1:50,000, available at the information offices in the region.
Hiking guide Schladming-Dachstein by Herbert Raffalt, available at the information offices in the region.