Day-to-day Trip sheet

Karnischer Höhenweg

Day 1: Driving Vienna - Plöckenhaus; hike to Ed.-Pichl-Hütte
Driving Vienna - Plöckenhaus (some kilometers below Plöckenpaß). Distance: 461 km, at least 5 ½ hours.
For car route details see Trip Sheet.
Meeting time and place: 1.00 p.m. Plöckenhaus, start of hike (lunch by then already finished!)
Sat, 23.06.01
Plöckenhaus - Eduard-Pichl-Hütte
+ 1.100 hm, - 300 hm, 9 km, 5 hrs hiking
(hm= meters of height, + means up, - means down)
Option: Dinner at Italian hut, at Rifugia Lambertenghi

Day 2: Ed.-Pichl-Hütte - Hochweißsteinhaus
Sun, 24.06.01
+ 800 hm - 900 hm 13 km 4 - 5 hrs hiking
Option: Hochweißstein (Monte Peralba), 2.694 m, appr. 4 hrs, thereafter "luxury menu" at Rifugio Calvi (Extra Day!)

Day 3: Hochweißsteinhaus - Porzehütte
Mon, 25.06.01
+ 1.100 hm - 1.000 hm 15 km 8 - 9 hrs hiking

Day 4: Porzehütte - Standschützenhaus
Tue, 26.06.01 appr. 3hrs hiking
Optional: Porze (2.599 m), appr. 4 Std. from/to Porzescharte, Klettersteig (for skilled people only)

Day 5: Standschützenhaus - Obstanserseehütte
Wed, 27.06.01, appr. 4 hrs hiking, Großer Kinigat (2.689 m) and Pfannspitze (2.678 m) included

VARIATION FOR DAYS 4 AND 5:
Day 4: Free day or Porze summit (2.599 m)
Tue, 26.06.01 appr. 4 hrs hiking, Klettersteig (skilled people only)
Day 5: Porzehütte - Obstanserseehütte
Wed, 27.06.01
+ 1.100 hm - 700 hm 13 km appr. 7 hrs hiking

Day 6: Obstanserseehütte - Sillianerhütte
Thur, 28.06.01 appr. 4 hrs hiking

Day 7: Sillianerhütte - Sillian
Fri, 29.06.01 appr. 3 hrs hiking
Together in taxi(s) back to Plöckenhaus (parking lot of our cars)