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Today, 11.02.2026
Light rain shower
Wind speed2,1 km/h
From Leckermoos over the Schwarzalm to Hochkar
Hiking tour Starting from Hochmoor Leckermoos parking lot
- Difficulty: Difficult
- Distance: 11,87 km
- Duration: 6:00 h
- Ascent: 1028 m elevation gain
- Descent: 447 m elevation gain
This route offers the full splendor of the Ybbstal Alps. Alpine pastures with rustic huts and peaks with views of Dürrenstein and deep into Styria.
- Starting point of the tour
- Hochmoor Leckermoos parking lot
- Tour destination
- Hochkar hut - Hochkar
- Difficulty: Difficult
- Distance: 11,87 km
- Duration: 6:00 h
- Ascent: 1028 m elevation gain
- Descent: 447 m elevation gain
- Fitness level required:5/6
- Overall experience:5/6
- Scenery:5/6
- Lowest point860 m
- Highest point1700 m
- Nice views
- With refreshment stops
Description
The Hochmoor Leckermoos is a unique landscape with rare animal and plant species and therefore already a first highlight on this hike.
The further hike alternates on trails and paths through forests and over open alpine pastures. Time and again breathtaking views open up of the surrounding mountains, from the Gesäuse over the Haller Walls to far into the Alpine foreland.
Juicy, flower-rich meadows alternate with karst passages, huge sinkholes and limestone pavement.
The Schwarzalm and Hochkaralm are the two managed alpine huts along the way but also the romantic Brunnecker hut, the Schrotleitner hut, the Wiesenalm or the (highest) Heuwies are worth a short rest. The Wiesenalm is the most remote alpine pasture area at Hochkar, but also the most beautiful. An equally impressive deep view opens from the Betmauer to the Hochmoor Leckermoos.
- Equipment Sturdy footwear, a water bottle, a snack, as well as sun and rain protection are essential equipment for every alpine hike.
- Route description Leckermoos - Wiesenalmhütte - Schwarzalmhütte - Brunneckerhütte - HochkarThe hike starts at the Hochmoor Leckermoos parking lot on a forest road. From here, we follow a trail with many small hairpin bends uphill through a sparse high forest to a gate. Then over a small mountain saddle through a sparse forest uphill until the path turns left. We walk over a wide meadow ridge and then follow the moderately steep mountain ridge downhill. Then the path goes uphill again through a spruce forest to the Freyndllucke and from there right to the Betmauer. Continue here to a tree-covered hilltop and from there about 300 meters southeast to the Wiesenalmhütte. From there we walk across a meadow until a path begins on a hilltop, following it uphill through the karst landscape of the "Kessel" to a fork where we choose the meadow ridge downhill towards Schwarzalmhütte.From the Schwarzalmhütte, we follow a path that goes fairly straight downhill to a clearing that we cross to reach a forest road, which we follow to then go through a forest hollow onto a meadow and further through a short forest section to reach the Brunneckerhütte. From the hut, we head towards a rocky summit with large boulders and a mighty larch over a stony trail, which leads uphill in numerous hairpin bends to the Heuwies. From here, a slightly downhill path leads to a fork on a saddle. Here we follow a trail with switchbacks downhill to the Schrotleitner Hütte, passing karst formations over a meadow towards Blachlboden. From the extensive meadow area of Blachlboden, a short detour to the mountain lake (+3 min) is worthwhile, and from there a short ski path leads to the destination at the Hochkar hut.
- Parking Directly at the snack station
- Getting there Via the West Motorway to the AMSTETTEN-WEST or YBBS exit:From Amstetten via federal road No. 121 to Waidhofen/Ybbs and federal road 31 to St. Georgen/Reith – Göstling/Ybbs – B 25 – Hochreitstraße (max. 15%) - Snack station AblassFrom Ybbs via federal road 25 to Göstling/Ybbs From Graz – Leoben – Eisenerz – Hieflau – B25 to Göstling/Ybbs From Liezen – Admont – Gesäuse – Hieflau – B25 to Göstling/Ybbs
- Editor’s tip The Schwarzalm is the highest alpine hut on the Eisenstraße in Lower Austria. The Leckermoor is a very valuable, protected raised bog!
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Current weather on site
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Tomorrow, 12.02.2026
Light rain
Wind speed2,0 km/h
Ybbstal Alps - Tourism office Göstling
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3345 Göstling an der Ybbs
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