Fixed rope route "Rotwand"

• Difficulty: medium
• Valuation of the tour: medium complexity
• Details of the via ferrata: 20 % steel rope, a few iron ladders at the beginning, 80 % path and exposed path
• Duration: ca. 6 hours
• Rise and descent: 1020m of altitude
• Time of approach: ca. 1 ¼ hours
• Time on the via ferrata: ca. 2 ½ hours – 690m of altitude
• Descent: ca. 2 ¼ hours
• Position: North, West, East
• Requirements: surefootedness

Difficulty and general information:
Long and very frequented rise with a steep ladder at the beginning.

Starting point:
Top station of the cable car Rotwand at Moos.

Ascent:
We go to the top station of Rotwand cable-car. We follow way no. 100 over the meadows of Rotwand until the “Rotwandköpfe”. We follow the marking “Rotwand-Klettersteig” on 2300m. The beginning of the via ferrata is an 40m iron ladder.

Descent:
From the top we pass the „Wurzbachgipfel“ (shortly before the ladder). There you can go through a rock splitting and you follow the Burgstall-Way (number 15b) back to the starting point.