First Hike in my new Town! [pics]

Well, I live in Leoben now. An Austrian city, more than 3 hours from home, and I study there.

This weekend I couldn't get home so I decided to take the Sunday for a little hike!

I started directly from my flat in the suburbs of the city.

 

 

Soon I got into the woods.

 

 

Leoben from above - the viewplace was called Kolbruhe

 

The first kilometers were a mix of footways and forest roads. Nothing special or exciting but look who I found!

 

 

They didn't move at all, even when I touched them. I guess it was too cold for them, since it was still morning and around 7 degrees.

There was so much Himalayan Balsam in this forest. Its a sweet stinking neophyte that grows everywhere and cums its seeds on you if you touch it, no reallly. I hate it xD

But there also were a few Fly Agarics along my way :)

 

Jungle

 

 

Hiiii - this one did crawl around like they normally do. The others were just lazy :P

   

RIP Erwin the bird 17.01.2003

 

Wellllll, this is the first summit! Looks shit, right? It is. There wasn't even the slightest of a path onto it, only underneath - I understand why you wouldn't want to go there. Nothing to see. Any ways, the summit (or hill) was called Spitz Christi and 1105 m high.

 

From this little peak on, the ridge wasn't steep anymore. 

 

 

You see the steel mill Donawitz in the valley.

 

That's a summit here! Mießriegel, 1213 m high. It's a bit away from the hiking trail, but the forest is easy to walk across, so why not?^^

 

I love the peacefulness in the forest, there was really no one on my way except two trailrunners, even here I'm far off the path.

 

 

 

The mountain Mugel in the background. I originally planned to only do these two, but I had so much time still... so I went up there too.

 

 

 

 

This ridge is called Lange Bank (long bench) and ~1205 meters high

 

Gstattmoaralm

hehehehehehehe

Wait, did I just pass Gstattmoaralm? That means I'm already on the ascend to the Mugel? Did I want to go up there? Hm. Well, anyways... ;P

The climb was steep but got flatter now and I already wondered where the summit was (photo shows where I went up). But then, out of nothing...

Mugel, 1630 m

Success!

And yea, it began to snow xD

Hm... this is the next mountain (Rosseck, 1664 m) but I don't want to go there anymore. And I also don't want to go down over the ridge, where I already hiked up... I want to get down to the valley to show you the Styrian periphery too, but the next path down is so far away...

Let's just head straight down!

I ran down the grassland (I love running down hills) and found this meadow and even a hunter trail which I ran down afterwards. The path was marked in OSM, I don't trust the map to 100%, but I take suggestions from it. This time the map proved right, there was a path and it was even cut out of the grass so you can easily use it.

And a few minutes later, I was in the valley! This house here is called Alpe in der Gams and was once the innermost farm in the valley, but now it's just a pasture.

That's going to be a looong and boring and exhausting walk. Or as we say in Austria: a Hatscha

Stadlmaieralm

Lackner

Pichler, with chapel

Gstattmoar

Hi boys

Schwaiger

Ortner

The electricity line is hanging so low, I could grab it without jumping

Kreuzbauer

The crossing of Kleingößgraben and Großgößgraben. I came from left.

...hatsch hatsch hatsch...

The communist party is relatively strong in Styria, but isn't that a bit of a weird place for election advertising? :P

Braitensteiner

ooo, there's a church!

If I pull the string I'm gonna make a lot of noise I guess hehehe

and I'm in the city again!

...kinda

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