Saturday, April 20, 2013

Austria - Hallstatt - Gletscher Garten Echerntal Theme trail

The Glacier Garden hiking trail of Hallstatt is part of the so called "Area of the 19th Century Romantics" and is also known as the Gletscher Garten Echerntal Theme hiking trail which follows the Friedrich Simony path in discovering the misteries of Dachstein Salzkammergut glaciers. The trail is very famous probably due to the Waldbach river waterfalls, the Gletscher Garten (relics of the Last Ice Age) and also to the Hirlatz Caves (the longest cave system from Austria - approx. 95 km).
Friedrich Simony began in 1840 with researches on the Dachstein plateau and began exploring the geomorphology and the eight glaciers of the Dachstein Mountains. Simony is also known as the "father of alpine climbing".
The Echerntal hiking trail is a very easy one, it starts from Lahn - Hallstatt (Styria, Austria) and proposes 10 points of interest from Simony's Echerntal route.

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Gletscher Garten Echerntal Theme route:
01. the Babylon Hut - the Echerntal Theme start point;
02. the Runes - important geologic stones;
03. the Waldbach river;
04. the timber grille;
05. Echerntal Village;
06. the Owls hole;
07. the Waldbach Waterfall;
08. the Glacier Garden - relics of the last Ice Age;
09. the entry to the Hirlatz Caves system;
10. the Simony memorial;

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Next, images, July 2012:
 1. The Babylon Hut point

 Echerntal Theme map at Babylon Hut

The Path to the Runes

 2. The Runes

 3. Waldbach River point

 Waldbach River

 The Path to the timber grille

 4. Timber grille point

 Waldbach River

 Timber grille

 5 Echerntal Village point

Echerntal Village
 View to the mountains near Echerntal
(mountain to the right also contains the Salt mine of Hallstatt)

 6. The Owls Hole point

 The Owls Hole

 Path crosspoint at the Waldbach Waterfall

 Waldbach River at the waterfall path crosspoint

7. Waldbach Waterfall

 Small waterfall on path

 Waldbach River at the waterfall crosspoint

 The Path to Gletscher Garten

 The bridge at the waterfall crosspoint

 The Path to Gletscher Garten

 The tunnel on the road above the Gletscher Garten

 View to Echerntal (leftside) and Lahn-Hallstatt and Hallstattersee (frontside)

 8. The Gletscher Garten point

 View to Echerntal from Gletscher Garten

 The Gletscher Garten

 The Gletscher Garten

 The Gletscher Garten

 The Gletscher Garten

 The Gletscher Garten

 The Gletscher Garten path

 The Gletscher Garten path

 The Gletscher Garten

 The Gletscher Garten

 The Gletscher Garten

 The Gletscher Garten

 The Gletscher Garten path

9. The entry to the Hirlatz Caves system

 Small waterfall on the path

 10. The Simony memorial

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