The Encounter Walk

easy Family hikes · Schladming

Tour characteristics

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Tour-Infos

Distance: 3.38 km

Duration: 01:00 h

Ascent: 116 m

Descent: 116 m

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The tour

An easy walk along meadows through Rohrmoos. On the way back the walk takes you on a part of the fairy tale trail.

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Turn-by-turn directions

From the hiking trail head you start West on Reiterkreuzweg road towards the trail junction "Reiterkreuz". Here you keep on walking on the Reiterkreuzweg - passing by the Eliashof farm - until you reach the house "vlg. Hörisch". Here you make a left and hike up the meadow for about 400 m where you reach the fairy tale trail. Turn left here and walk to Hotel Schwaigerhof and on to Rohrmoosstraße road. From there follow the sidewalk downhill to your starting point in the village center.

Getting there

Take provincial highway L722 from Schladming to the village of Rohrmoos.

With the Planai buses from Schladming (Planet-Planai, Lendplatz) to Rohrmoos - bus stop Rohrmoos-Zentrum.

Buses of Planai-Hochwurzen-Bahnen: www.planaibus.at

Parking

Parking is available around the hiking trailhead.

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

Hiking or trekking shoes with grip sole, jacket.

Author’s recommendation

The Encounter Walk can be combined with the fairy tale trail.

Tips, hints and links

Tourist information: www.schladming.com

Information about bus schedules: www.planaibus.at

360° drone images

Get yourself an overview with our 360° drone images:

View over the Western part of Rohrmoos: https://vonoben.schladming-dachstein.at/sommer/index.php?S=61

Hiking map ‘Hiking WEST’ available at the information offices in the region.
Schladming hiking map, 1:25,000, available at the Schladming information office.
Hiking map Schladming-Dachstein, 1:50,000, available at the information offices in the region.
Hiking guide Schladming-Dachstein by Herbert Raffalt, available at the information offices in the region.