Daily Distance – 16km (some of which by boat)Daily Ascent – 140mDaily Descent – 1170mTotal Distance – 458kmDistance Remaining – 521km This blog has been…
Day 29 – Maria Alm to Kärlingerhaus
Daily Distance – 17kmDaily Ascent – 1350mDaily Descent – 580mTotal Distance – 442kmDistance Remaining – 537km After thirty stages, leading from Vienna to a stone’s…
Day 28 – nr Erichhütte to Maria Alm
Daily Distance – 17kmDaily Ascent – 425mDaily Descent – 1160mTotal Distance – 425kmDistance Remaining – 554km If I were to give a title to this…
Day 27 – Werfen to nr. Erichhütte
Daily Distance – 24kmDaily Ascent – 1380mDaily Descent – 340mTotal Distance – 442kmDistance Remaining – 571km Today has been a day of two halves. On…
Day 26 – Lüngotz to Werfen
Daily Distance – 27kmDaily Ascent – 930mDaily Descent – 1230mTotal Distance – 418kmDistance Remaining – 595km Today is a good news, bad news, kind of…
Day 25 – Gosausee to Lungötz
Daily Distance – 23kmDaily Ascent – 500mDaily Descent – 1000mTotal Distance – 391kmDistance Remaining – 622km I have reached Lungötz, the very definition of a…
Day 24 – Gosausee Rest Day
Daily Distance – 0kmDaily Ascent – 0mDaily Descent – 0mTotal Distance – 368kmDistance Remaining – 645km Currently I am running a website titled “Mindblown: a…
Day 18 – Spital am Pyhrn to Zellerhütte
Daily Distance – 18kmDaily Ascent – 1100mDaily Descent – 777mTotal Distance – 275kmDistance Remaining – 738km In what can only be described as a catastrophic…
Day 17 – Admont to Spital al Pyhrn
Daily Distance – 18kmDaily Ascent – 680mDaily Descent – 674mTotal Distance – 257kmDistance Remaining – 756km The highlight of today has been walking through Dr…
Day 16 – Mödlinger Hütte to Admont + Rest Day
Daily Distance – 14kmDaily Ascent – 450mDaily Descent – 1150mTotal Distance – 239kmDistance Remaining – 774km When passing through each town, hut or mountain range…
Day 14 – Nr. Neubergsattel to Mödlinger Hütte
Daily Distance – unknownDaily Ascent – unknownDaily Descent – unknownTotal Distance – 225kmDistance Remaining – 788km To my great satisfaction, I am not now inhabiting…
Day 13 – Eisenerz to nr. Neubergsattel
Daily Distance – 21kmDaily Ascent – 860mDaily Descent – 800mTotal Distance – 230kmDistance Remaining – 821km Today I received my first gift of “trail magic”,…
Day 12 – Häuslalm to Eisenerz
Daily Distance – 23kmDaily Ascent – 500mDaily Descent – 1300mTotal Distance – 213kmDistance Remaining – 838km One thing that has surprised me about Austria is…
Day 11 – Voisthallehütte to Häuslalm
Daily Distance – 12kmDaily Ascent – 700mDaily Descent – 800mTotal Distance – 190kmDistance Remaining – 861km After sweating up the hill to Voisthallehütte yesterday, my…
Day 10 – Graf Meran Haus to Voisthallehütte
Daily Distance – 23kmDaily Ascent – 1100mDaily Descent – 1292mTotal Distance – 178kmDistance Remaining – 873km Bambi on ice is probably the most apt description…
Day 9 – Neuberg an der Mürz to Graf Meran Haus
Daily Distance – 18kmDaily Ascent – 1450mDaily Descent – 370mTotal Distance – 155kmDistance Remaining – 896km It’s fair to say that the first three quarters…
Day 7 – Schneealpenhaus to Neuberg an der Mürz
Daily Distance – 28kmDaily Ascent – 628mDaily Descent – 1673mTotal Distance – 137kmDistance Remaining – 914km First out of the gate this morning was leaving…
Day 6 – Grasbodenalm to Schneealpenhaus
Daily Distance – 10kmDaily Ascent – 760mDaily Descent – 860mTotal Distance – 109kmDistance Remaining – 942km I now have a new favourite drink, called a…
Day 5 – Weichtalhaus to Grasbodenalm
Daily Distance – 15kmDaily Ascent – 1575mDaily Descent – 450mTotal Distance – 97kmDistance Remaining – 954km Today has been instructive in the vagaries of Austrian…
Day 4 – Edelweiss Hut to Weichtalhaus
Daily Distance – 16kmDaily Ascent – 250mDaily Descent – 750mTotal Distance – 83kmDistance Remaining – 967km Today I jumped naked into a river. Well, maybe…
Day 3 – Hohe Mandling Peak to Edelweiss Hut
Daily Distance – 23kmDaily Ascent – 1000mDaily Descent – 1100mTotal Distance – 70kmDistance Remaining – 980km Today has been a physically and psychologically tiring day….
Day 2 – Peilsteinhaus to Hohe Mandling Peak
Daily Distance – 23kmDaily Ascent – 900mDaily Descent – 750mTotal Distance – 47kmDistance Remaining – 1003km Two rather surprising things happened today. One, a passing…
Day 1 – Perchtoldsdorf to Peilsteinhaus
Daily Distance – 24km + 2km from hotelDaily Ascent – 1014mDaily Descent – 566mTotal Distance – 24kmDistance Remaining – 1024km Fortunately, owing to my flexible…