Miners' Trail - Short Variant via Johannahöhe

easy Family hikes · Schladming

Tour characteristics
Stamina
Technique
Tour-Infos
Distance: 4.25 km
Duration: 01:19 h
Ascent: 147 m
Descent: 147 m
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The tour

Short alternative to the Miners Trail to Hopfriesen. This tour takes you half-way to Obertal and loops back to Rohrmoos via a nice trail through the forest.

  • Characteristics:

alpine pasture

  • Restaurants:

Rohrmooser Erlebniswelt, Hotel Sonneck, Arx Genusshotel, Restaurant Braunhofer, Wehrhofalm, Holdalm, Eschachalm

  • POIs:

Johanna Höhe with beautiful view to the Obertal

  • Alternative:

A somewhat longer (approx. +45 min.) variant of the tour is possible via Ahornweg road, the forestry lane Royer Ötz and the Schlapfer farm.

Turn-by-turn directions

From the centre of Rohrmoos, walk uphill along the pavement for approx. 300 m until the Knappenweg branches off to the left. Just a few metres further on at the Schußbühel, you feel as if you have been transported to a different landscape: a wide alpine pasture area opens up to the south and the meadow path leads through the middle of the lush pastures of the Rohrmooser Frei.

As you walk gently downhill towards the Obertal valley, you should enjoy the beautiful views of both the Untertal and Obertal valleys. At the vlg. Sonnleitner estate, you reach the Rohrmoos-Südweg/Knappenweg crossroads and hike uphill along the road to the vlg. Pocher where you reach the Johannahöhe and the Schwammerlweg.

The ascent to Johannahöhe leads a short distance across a meadow quite steeply uphill. After another 100 metres on a forest path, you reach the beautiful forest path with the start of the very beautiful Schwammerlweg trail. The forest path then leads slightly downhill in 20 to 25 minutes back to Rohrmoos.

Getting there
From Schladming take provincial highway L722 (Rohrmoosstraße road) to Rohrmoos and at the roundabout continue straight on for about 300 m until you reach the center of the village Rohrmoos.
With the Planai buses from Schladming (Planet-Planai, Lendplatz) to "Rohrmoos-Zentrum"
Parking
Parking is available along the street around the hiking trail head.
Start
Hiking trail head Rohrmoos village
Destination
Hiking trail head Rohrmoos village
Equipment

Changes in weather patterns, quick falls in temperature, thunderstorms, wind, fog and snow are some of the dangers that can be encountered on a hiking tour. Hosts of alpine huts and mountain refuges have a lot of experience in the mountains and can give good advice about weather and the trails. Poor equipment, overestimation of one's own capabilities, carelessness, poor personal constitution and/or wrong judgement can lead to critical situations. In case of thunderstorms: avoid summits, ridges and steel ropes.

GPS data and orienteering

Available GPS data - just like hiking maps - is only a guidance for orientation and can never depict a trail exactly with all its details. Especially at dangerous spots it is essential to judge on site how to proceed.

In an emergency please call:

  • 140 - for Alpine emergencies (all over Austria)
  • 112 - European GSM emergency number
A well-packed backpack is helpful and especially when touring Alpine terrain a tuque, gloves, a windproof jacket and pants are standard equipment. Good, waterproof shoes, sun glasses, sun cream and sufficient beverages are essential too. Torch light, a map of the area, knie and a small first-aid kit should also be in the backpack.

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Weather forecast

Date
in the morning
2°C
at noon
10°C
in the evening
4°C
The day starts sunny, but will be partly cloudy in the afternoon.
in the morning
0°C
at noon
11°C
in the evening
5°C
Dry and partly sunny throughout the day, with cloudy periods from time to time.
in the morning
0°C
at noon
10°C
in the evening
3°C
Dry and sunny throughout the day with hardly any clouds.

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