+Track up is very cyclable to a hut [Stumern Alm, 813m] where it stops & there is a steeply ascending rough path (signposted to Appelhaus) up the Trisselwand side of the valley. I parked bike. - -I decided to go diretly up the Loser side: "Oh Yes", I thought, "10-15 minutes +
+I decided to go directly up the Loser side: "Oh Yes", I thought, "10-15 minutes and I'll be past those trees and into the clear grass/rock/scree area". 1 hour later -Iwas in a rock shelter, still in the trees, and I could now see that the track I should have been on wasmuch higher,and I also had no safe way on up this side of the valley. - -The geology is very promising though - at the hut the big face is well-bedded with a couple of useful-looking faults. - -I had got to within 600m horizontally of wjhere I wanted to be to look for entrance,butalo 600m too low. - -Aborted cycle ride whome in Bad Aussee for emergency ice cream. +I was in a rock shelter [wpt C05 942m], still in the trees, and I could now see that the track I should have been on was much higher, +and I also had no easy safe way on up this side of the valley. +
+The geology is very promising though - at the hut the big face [Pfenningofen] is well-bedded with a couple of useful-looking faults. +
+I had got to within 600m horizontally of where I wanted to be to look for entrance, but also 600m too low. +
+Aborted cycle ride home in Bad Aussee for emergency ice cream. +
Philip +
PS Nettles! Flies !! aarghhh!!! + +PPS The better way to do this approach would be to take a jeep up the correct track (the one that says "No Bicycles") +all the way to the road head at Oberwasser Alm at 1353m, and then traverse round to the right area +above the tree line but below the bunde line. +
Departed base camp 06:35, returned 13:05