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Kaisergebirge The Kaiser Mountains (german: Kaisergebirge, meaning ''Emperor Mountains'') are a mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps and Eastern Alps. Its main ridges – are the Zahmer Kaiser and south of it the Wilder Kaiser. The mountains are s ...

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Tyrol Tyrol (; historically the Tyrole; de-AT, Tirol ; it, Tirolo) is a historical region in the Alps - in Northern Italy and western Austria. The area was historically the core of the County of Tyrol, part of the Holy Roman Empire, Austrian Emp ...

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

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Hintersteiner See Hintersteiner See is a mountain lake in the Wilder Kaiser Austrian national park and belongs to the administrative region of Scheffau in the Austrian federal state of Tirol. The , lake was created during the last ice age and is at a height of 88 ...

– Bärnstatt – Steiner Hochalm – Scheffauer The Scheffauer is a 2,111 m-high mountain in the Kaiser mountain range of the

Northern Limestone Alps The Northern Limestone Alps (german: Nördliche Kalkalpen), also called the Northern Calcareous Alps, are the ranges of the Eastern Alps north of the Central Eastern Alps located in Austria and the adjacent Bavarian lands of southeastern Germany. ...

. It forms the western buttress of the Wilder Kaiser and is one of the most frequented summits in the Kaiser.

Location

The Scheffauer belongs to the lesser summits of the Wilder Kaiser and guards the western flank of the main crest of the mountain range. To the north and south mighty rock faces, up to 600 metres high, plunge into the valleys. At the southern foot of the Scheffauer lies

Lake Hinterstein Hintersteiner See is a mountain lake in the Wilder Kaiser Austrian national park and belongs to the administrative region of Scheffau in the Austrian federal state of Tirol. The , lake was created during the last ice age and is at a height of 88 ...

; to the west it is linked to the rarely visited

Zettenkaiser The Zettenkaiser is a 1,968 m high mountain with a summit cross in the Kaiser Mountains (''Kaisergebirge'') in the Northern Limestone Alps in Austria. It rises to the west of the almost 150-metre-higher Scheffauer, from which it is separated b ...

, whilst to the east it is connected to the ridge of the

Hackenköpfe The Hackenköpfe are a row of peaks in the western Kaisergebirge range in Austria. Their maximum height is . They are located in the ridge running west from the Sonneck between the Treffauer and Scheffauer. To the north their rock faces, up to 80 ...

. A worthwhile but difficult hike runs along this ridge to the

Sonneck The Sonneck is a mountain in the Kaisergebirge range of the Northern Limestone Alps in Austria. On its broad peak stands a solid summit cross, the panorama is comprehensive and there are particularly good views of the Ellmauer Halt, the highest m ...

Routes

There are two frequently used routes to scale the Scheffauer; both are signposted and sufficiently secured. * from the south: the normal route begins in

Scheffau am Wilden Kaiser Scheffau am Wilden Kaiser is a municipality in the district Kufstein in the Austrian region of the Sölllandl. It is located 8.50 km southeast of Kufstein and 13 km northwest of Kitzbühel and has three subdivisions. The main source of ...

and runs from the Bärnstatt Inn (''Gasthaus'') via the Alpine meadow of Steiner-Hochalm and across the steep, sunny, but less arduous ''

schrofen Schrofen, a German mountaineering term, is steep terrain, strewn with rocks and rock outcrops, that is laborious to cross, but whose rock ledges (''schrofen'') offer many good steps and hand holds. It is usually rocky terrain on which grass has est ...

'' on the southern flank of the mountain up to the

summit cross A summit cross (german: Gipfelkreuz) is a cross on the summit of a mountain or hill that marks the top. Often there will be a summit register (''Gipfelbuch'') at the cross, either in a container or at least a weatherproof case. Various other form ...

. Duration: 3 hours. * from the north: the starting point for this route is the privately run

Kaindl Hut The Kaindl Hut (german: Kaindlhütte) is a privately run mountain hut at a height of in the Kaiser mountains in the Austrian state of Tyrol. Location The Kaindl Hut lies in the western part of the Kaiser on an Alpine meadow, the ''Steinbergalm' ...

. From there the path runs along the Widauersteig (a secured ''

Klettersteig A via ferrata (Italian language, Italian for "iron path", plural ''vie ferrate'' or in English ''via ferratas'') is a protected climbing route found in the Alps and certain other locations. The term "via ferrata" is used in most countries and ...

'',

UIAA The International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation, commonly known by its French name Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme (UIAA, lit. ''International Union of Alpine Clubs''), was founded in August 1932 in Chamonix, France ...

climbing grade In rock climbing, mountaineering, and other climbing disciplines, climbers give a grade to a climbing route or boulder problem, intended to describe concisely the difficulty and danger of climbing it. Different types of climbing (such as spo ...

I) through the shadowed northern flank, largely over rocky terrain to the summit, more challenging than the southern route, duration from the Kaindl Hut: 2.5 hours.

External links

Widauersteig on the Scheffauer

Mountains of the Alps Mountains of Tyrol (state) Two-thousanders of Austria Kaiser Mountains