Trekking Munich to Venice: The Traumpfad, ’Dream Way’, a Classic Trek Across the Eastern Alps

291 Pages·2017·23.2 MB·English

by  John Hayes

TREKKING MUNICH TO VENICE
THE TRAUMPFAD, ‘DREAM WAY’, A CLASSIC TREK ACROSS THE
EASTERN ALPS
by John Hayes

2 POLICE SQUARE, MILNTHORPE, CUMBRIA LA7 7PY
www.cicerone.co.uk
About the Author
John Hayes is a retired management consultant with degrees from Liverpool
University and University College London. Immediately after finishing work in
2011 he embarked on an epic 5000km trek across Europe, walking from Tarifa
in Spain to Budapest. John has written for numerous walking and trekking
magazines.
Having walked various parts of the Munich to Venice route on different visits
to the Alps John, with his wife Christine, embarked on his first through walk in
2014 returning again in 2015 to complete additional research.
Other Cicerone guides by the author Spain’s Sendero Histórico: The GR1
© John Hayes 2016
First edition 2016
ISBN: 978 1 85284 804 0

Printed by KHL Printing, Singapore A catalogue record for this book is available
from the British Library.
All photographs are by the author unless otherwise stated.

Route mapping by Lovell Johns www.lovelljohns.com
Contains OpenStreetMap.org data © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA.
NASA relief data courtesy of ESRI
Acknowledgments Thanks to Max and Frances Harre for testing an early
version of the route description in 2015. Some of their photographs have
been included in this guide.
Updates to this Guide While every effort is made by our authors to
ensure the accuracy of guidebooks as they go to print, changes can occur
during the lifetime of an edition. Any updates that we know of for this
guide will be on the Cicerone website (www.cicerone.co.uk/804/updates),
so please check before planning your trip. We also advise that you check
information about such things as transport, accommodation and shops
locally. Even rights of way can be altered over time.
The route maps in this guide are derived from publicly available data,
databases and crowd-sourced data. As such they have not been through
the detailed checking procedures that would generally be applied to a
published map from an official mapping agency, although we have
reviewed them closely in the light of local knowledge as part of the
preparation of this guide.
We are always grateful for information about any discrepancies
between a guidebook and the facts on the ground, sent by email to
[email protected] or by post to Cicerone, 2 Police Square,
Milnthorpe LA7 7PY, United Kingdom.

Front cover: Approaching the Kaserer Shartl (Stage 11B)
CONTENTS
Map key
Overview map
Overview profile
Route summary table
Introduction
History of the region
The invention of a mountain pilgrimage
The route
The Alpine seasons
Alpine flowers, animals and birds
What’s the walking like?
How hard is it?
How long will it take?
When to go
Accommodation
Hut life
Planning your walk
What to take
Finding your way
Using this guide
1 Munich to the Inn Valley
Stage 1 Munich to Wolfratshausen
Stage 2 Wolfratshausen to Bad Tölz
Stage 3 Bad Tölz to the Tutzinger Hütte
Stage 4 Tutzinger Hütte to Vorderriß
Stage 5 Vorderriß to the Karwendelhaus
Stage 6 Karwendelhaus to the Hallerangerhaus
Stage 7A Hallerangerhaus to Hall
Stage 7B Hallerangerhaus to Wattens
2 Inn Valley to Pfunders
Stage 8A Hall to the Glungezer Hütte
Stage 8B Wattens to the Lizumer Hütte
Stage 9 Glungezer Hütte to the Lizumer Hütte
Stage 10 Lizumer Hütte to the Tuxer Joch Haus
Stage 11A Tuxer Joch Haus to the Olpererhütte
Stage 11B Tuxer Joch Haus to the Geraerhütte
Stage 12A Olpererhütte to Stein
Stage 12B Geraerhütte to Stein
Stage 13 Stein to Pfunders
3 Pfunders to Alleghe
Stage 14 Pfunders to Kreuzwiesen Alm
Stage 15 Kreuzwiesen Alm to the Schlüterhütte (Rifugio Genova)
Stage 16 Schlüterhütte to the Puezhütte
Stage 17 Puezhütte (Rifugio Puez) to Rifugio Boè
Stage 18 Rifugio Boè to Rifugio Viel dal Pan
Stage 19 Rifugio Viel dal Pan to Alleghe
4 Alleghe to Belluno
Stage 20 Alleghe to Rifugio Tissi
Stage 21 Rifugio Tissi to Rifugio Bruto Carestiato
Stage 22 Rifugio Bruto Carestiato to Rifugio Pian de Fontana
Stage 23A Rifugio Pian de Fontana to Rifugio 7th Alpini
Stage 23B Rifugio Pian de Fontana to Belluno
Stage 24 Rifugio 7th Alpini to Belluno
5 Belluno to Venice
Stage 25 Belluno to Rifugio Col Visentin
Stage 26 Rifugio Col Visentin to Tarzo
Stage 27 Tarzo to Ponte della Priulä
Stage 28 Ponte della Priulä to Bocca Callalta
Stage 29 Bocca Callalta to Jesolo
Stage 30 Jesolo to Venice

Appendix A Route planner
Appendix B Accommodation along the route
Appendix C Useful contacts