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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 tour 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 Leckermoos high moor is a unique landscape with rare animal and plant species and is therefore the first highlight of this hike.
The rest of the hike alternates between paths and trails through forests and across open alpine pastures. There are always breathtaking views of the surrounding mountains, from the Gesäuse to the Haller Mäuer and deep into the Alpine foothills.
Lush, flower-filled meadows alternate with karst passages, huge sinkholes and karren fields.
The Schwarzalm and the Hochkaralm are the two managed huts along the way, but the romantic Brunnecker Hut, the Schrotleitner Hut, the Wiesenalm and the (highest) Heuwies are also worth a short break. Although the Wiesenalm is the most remote alpine pasture on the Hochkar, it is also the most beautiful. The view from the Betmauer to the Leckermoos high moor is just as impressive.
- safety instructions This hike leads through alpine terrain. Make sure to check the weather before setting off and save the alpine emergency number 140.
- 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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Ybbstal Alps - Tourism office Göstling
Göstling 46/2
3345 Göstling an der Ybbs
T +43 7484/93049
info@ybbstaler-alpen.at
www.ybbstaler-alpen.at
Letzte Änderung: 16 Mar 2026