Mountain hike examples

for beginners

The Koppen is a green forest mountain above Flachau. The circular route leads past lonely mountain farmhouses and allows us time to tell you about Flachau past and present.

for pleasure walkers

The path to the Gerzkopf starts in a very quiet corner and offers not only fantastic views from the Gerzkopf.  The lake and once beautiful biotopes around the Gerzkopf, where you can see  reflections of the  grand limestone rocks of the Torstein and the Bischofsmütze, constitute a European protected area, more of which when we're on the spot.

for the very fit

Right behind at the back of the Flachau Valley we walk along ancient paths and trails used by Romans, collectors and traders, past  Almdorf and the Pleisslingalm to the Taferlscharte and on further to the 2,374 m high Taferlnock. In the majority of the mountain ranges in the Alps where there is such a fabulous viewing plateau the mountain would be developed and crowded with people. You would think such a great viewing plateau would attract hordes of hikers, but here the peak at the end of the Flachau Valley is distinguished by its peace and tranquility.  On the way down the clear Pleissling stream with its fresh source water has often proved to be the ideal spot for a  "Kneipp (water-treading) cure"