Kaindl Hut – Walleralm Alpine Hut loop from Scheffau am Wilden Kaiser

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Scheffau am Wilden Kaiser

Kaindl Hut – Walleralm Alpine Hut loop from Scheffau am Wilden Kaiser

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Kaindl Hut – Walleralm Alpine Hut loop from Scheffau am Wilden Kaiser

07:53

15.8km

1,370m

Mountaineering

Hard mountaineering route. Very good fitness required. Sure-footedness, sturdy shoes and alpine experience required. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: July 17, 2026

Tips

Includes segments that may be dangerous

Parts of this route comprise highly technical, difficult, or hazardous terrain. Specialist equipment and prior experience is required.

After 3.62 km for 96 m

After 4.04 km for 1.26 km

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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82 m

Rehbachklamm Gorge

Highlight • Gorge

A nice well-developed path next to the creek.

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162 m

Mining tunnel Rehbachklamm

Highlight • Cave

A short mountain tunnel next to the path of the Rehbachklamm

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2.26 km

Steiner Hochalm – View of Hintersteiner See

Highlight • Mountain Hut

Friendly (authentic-looking) small, managed alpine pasture. Here you can get fresh buttermilk and other drinks and a gentleman in traditional costumes plays harp music.

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4.18 km

Secured climb Scheffauer Südanstieg (closed)

Highlight • Climb

The summit of the Scheffauer on the south side you reach first on a gravel slope, then on several via ferrata passages (difficulty A / B), which are well insured in the upper section with wire ropes.

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4.55 km

Widauer Steig (Kaiser Mountains)

Highlight (Segment) • Climb

Great, easy climb! Via ferrata equipment is not really necessary unless you are a little unsure, but I would recommend rockfall helmets.

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6.82 km

Kaindl Hut

Highlight • Mountain Hut

Privately managed cabin (so no DAV benefits). The most rustic hut of our tour, everything has a charming and sympathetic-old character. The dormitory has 16 beds, in addition, there are …

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9.51 km

Walleralm Alpine Hut

Highlight • Mountain Hut

Here you should try the buttermilk.

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11.4 km

Viewpoint

11.8 km

View of Hintersteiner See and the Inn Valley

Highlight • Viewpoint

The perfect break spot. The view is postcard-worthy, the walk here is beautiful (but challenging enough to avoid being overcrowded), and a bench comes free.

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15.8 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

6.51 km

5.15 km

3.50 km

604 m

Surfaces

6.93 km

4.26 km

2.75 km

1.82 km

< 100 m

Elevation

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Weather

Tuesday 6 October

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Comments

October 6, 2022,🇦🇹 Kaiserdurchquerung – 2. Tag: Kaindlhütte – Widauersteig – Scheffauer – Steiner Hochalm – Hochegg - Kaindlhütte

From the Kaindlhütte we climbed to the forbidding northern cliffs of Scheffauer and Zettenkaiser, first through mountain forest and later through the mountain pine belt to a slab-like cliff. There the "serious" part of the tour began, the excellently secured, in my opinion easy via ferrata / Widauersteig. This initially led steeply through gullies and over a few slabs up …

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