Starting point: Ehrwald (1108 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 47.38801°N 10.93843°E 
Time of walking: 4 h 30 min
Difficulty: partly demanding marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 944 m
Altitude difference (by path): 1080 m
Map:
Access to starting point:
Through the Karawanks Tunnel, we drive into Austria, and then we continue driving towards Spittal and further towards Lienz (a little after Spittal the highway ends). Further, we drive on a relatively nice and wide road through the Drau Valley, which brings us to Italy. The road further leads past Dobbiaco / Toblach and Brunico / Bruneck. We continue on the main road and then join the highway towards Austria (direction Brenner, Innsbruck). In Innsbruck we continue on the highway which runs towards the west along the river Inn (at the highway junction direction Innsbruck-West). We leave the highway at the exit for the Fernpaß pass. We continue driving over the mentioned pass and when the road starts descending we continue right towards the town of Ehrwald (at the exit there are also signs for Zugspitze). When we drive through the town of Ehrwald we turn right towards the Ehrwalder Almbahn cableway. Further, the road starts ascending, and we always follow the signs for the mentioned cableway. We park on one of the parking lots at the bottom station of the cableway.
Path description:
At the bottom station of the cableway we first continue right on the road, then after a few dozen meters we continue left on the macadam road following the signs »Ehrwalder Alm«.
From the junction a relatively gentle road runs along the forest and soon brings us to another junction. At the junction we continue straight on the road, to the right branches off a more demanding path (Immensteig) towards the lake Seebensee.
The road further runs along the ski slope at the edge of the forest and leads us past the bottom station of the chairlift and a smaller hut by the path. At the hut where a view opens towards the summit Westliche Plattspitze, we continue slightly left and begin to ascend somewhat more steeply. The road then brings us into the forest and continues to ascend quite steeply. Higher we reach the left side of the circular cabin cableway and continue ascending through the forest. When we come out of the forest again onto the ski slope, our path turns right and then runs again along the right side of the cableway. The road further always runs near the cableway along the ski slope. Such a path from which increasingly beautiful views also open up soon brings us to the hut on the alpine pasture Ehrwalder Alm where there is also the upper station of the circular cabin cableway. The alpine pasture can also be reached by cableway during the summer months.
From the upper station of the cableway we continue on the macadam road, which quickly brings us to a junction. We continue on the left road, straight ahead the path leads to the nearby inn Gasthof Alpenglühn and further towards the lake Seebensee and hut Coburger Hütte. After just a few dozen meters of walking we reach another junction. This time we continue on the macadam road slightly right and follow the signs for the alpine pasture Hochfeldern Alm.
Further we walk for some time on a fairly level macadam road, which always runs towards the east. After approximately less than half an hour of walking from the alpine pasture Ehrwalder Alm the path brings us to another marked junction.
We turn left onto the footpath (Max Klotz Steig) towards the alpine pasture Hochfeldern Alm, straight on the road a slightly longer path leads to the same alpine pasture and the path towards the Gaistal valley. From the junction we first ascend the grassy slope along the ski slope, then the path brings us into the forest. The well-trodden path through the forest first ascends somewhat more steeply, then gently ascends across the slope towards the east. Such a path soon rejoins the macadam road. From here only a short ascent on the road to the hut on the alpine pasture Hochfeldern Alm follows.
At the hut we continue left on the footpath following the signs »Knorrhütte«. The path then ascends grassy slopes above the hut and later turns slightly right and brings us to a junction.
At the junction we continue right and soon cross a stream. Further the path ascends transversely across grassy slopes, higher we ascend for some time also through dwarf pines. The scenic path here always runs towards the northeast and brings us to the saddle Am Brand below the slopes of the peak Östlicher Gatterlkopf.
On the saddle the path turns slightly left and brings us to somewhat steeper slopes. The path here descends slightly and crosses the slopes towards the northeast. Such a path then brings us to a marked junction on the saddle Feldern Jöchl.
At the junction we continue left towards the Knorrhütte hut, right leads the path into the Gaistal valley and to the Rotmoos Alm alpine pasture.
From the junction the path first descends slightly more and crosses the slopes below the eastern slopes of the peak Östlicher Gatterlkopf. A short ascent to the saddle Gatterl follows where there is also the state border between Austria and Germany. During the ascent to the saddle the slope is somewhat steeper and some steel cables assist us.
From the saddle we descend a little more and a view opens towards the Reintal valley and towards the Zugspitze summit. Further the path crosses relatively gentle slopes towards the north for quite some time all the way to the Knorrhütte hut.
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