Blauberg Überschreitung

With another day of beautiful sunshine and unexpectedly warm temperatures we decided to head off and do one of the long ridge walks in Bavaria which has been on my todo list for a while, the Blauberg Blauberg Überschreitung.

As Becky was heading off early the next morning, we wanted to ensure that we weren’t back too late, so we got up early and arrived at the car park at 8am. We were certainly not the first people there, but the car park was still pretty deserted. The walk in was pretty cool in the shade, and for a large amount of the very flat walk in we could see the towering ascent at the end of the valley, which was as steep as it looked! We were thankful that it hadn’t rained, as the approach was along a valley floor and involved multiple crossings of the river, certainly not one to do in trainers after lots of rain!

We were soon at the start of the ascent, which was fairly brutal, but at least most of the ascent was then done in one go! Eventually we emerged on the ridge, and were greeted with wonderful views into Austria of the mountains above the Achensee valley and onto the Karwendel.

The ridge itself was lovely walking, on a good path, with wonderful views the entire way along. There was a reasonable amount of descent and re-ascent, but not too much for the distance. We headed to the Blaubergschneid for an early lunch, which was very pleasant in the warm sunshine, I was certainly regretting wearing trousers while we were walking!

We then set off for the rest of the ridge up to the summit of the Haserspitz, where the view was, unsurprisingly, brilliant. We chilled out at the summit for half an hour, admiring the view and refuelling for the descent. Given the steepness of our ascent, we were unsure how the descent would be, but it was totally fine, we certainly chose the correct direction for the walk!

While the descent was fine, it did go on somewhat, so we were pretty glad when we arrived back on the approach path from the morning. A short walk later took us to the Fischimbiß Restaurant, which served freshly smoked fish from their fishery. We both enjoyed a Fisch Brotzeit and a beer before wondering back to the car for the drive back to Munich.