From Leckermoos over the Schwarzalm to Hochkar

Description

The Hochmoor Leckermoos is a unique landscape with rare animal and plant species and therefore already a first highlight on this hike.
The further hike alternates on trails and paths through forests and over open alpine pastures. Time and again breathtaking views open up of the surrounding mountains, from the Gesäuse over the Haller Walls to far into the Alpine foreland.
Juicy, flower-rich meadows alternate with karst passages, huge sinkholes and limestone pavement.
The Schwarzalm and Hochkaralm are the two managed alpine huts along the way but also the romantic Brunnecker hut, the Schrotleitner hut, the Wiesenalm or the (highest) Heuwies are worth a short rest. The Wiesenalm is the most remote alpine pasture area at Hochkar, but also the most beautiful. An equally impressive deep view opens from the Betmauer to the Hochmoor Leckermoos.

Starting point of the tour

Hochmoor Leckermoos parking lot

Destination point of the tour

Hochkar hut - Hochkar

Route description From Leckermoos over the Schwarzalm to Hochkar

Leckermoos - Wiesenalmhütte - Schwarzalmhütte - Brunneckerhütte - Hochkar

The hike starts at the Hochmoor Leckermoos parking lot on a forest road. From here, we follow a trail with many small hairpin bends uphill through a sparse high forest to a gate. Then over a small mountain saddle through a sparse forest uphill until the path turns left. We walk over a wide meadow ridge and then follow the moderately steep mountain ridge downhill. Then the path goes uphill again through a spruce forest to the Freyndllucke and from there right to the Betmauer. Continue here to a tree-covered hilltop and from there about 300 meters southeast to the Wiesenalmhütte. From there we walk across a meadow until a path begins on a hilltop, following it uphill through the karst landscape of the "Kessel" to a fork where we choose the meadow ridge downhill towards Schwarzalmhütte.

From the Schwarzalmhütte, we follow a path that goes fairly straight downhill to a clearing that we cross to reach a forest road, which we follow to then go through a forest hollow onto a meadow and further through a short forest section to reach the Brunneckerhütte. From the hut, we head towards a rocky summit with large boulders and a mighty larch over a stony trail, which leads uphill in numerous hairpin bends to the Heuwies. From here, a slightly downhill path leads to a fork on a saddle. Here we follow a trail with switchbacks downhill to the Schrotleitner Hütte, passing karst formations over a meadow towards Blachlboden. From the extensive meadow area of Blachlboden, a short detour to the mountain lake (+3 min) is worthwhile, and from there a short ski path leads to the destination at the Hochkar hut.