Summit Tours in the Salzburg Lungau Region

Unforgettable summit tours wait for you in the Salzburg Lungau region, leading you across romantic alpine pastures and glistening mountain lakes up to impressive heights. From easy ascents to demanding challenges, the great diversity offers every hiking fan the right choice.

Two hikers with backpacks and poles ascend a rocky path at dawn, with a mountain cross silhouetted above.

What could be better than getting up early in the morning, packing some refreshment in your rucksack, and setting out for an unforgettable mountain tour?

The Lungau region in the land of Salzburg offers an incomparable variety of hiking trails that lead across romantic alpine pastures, in direction of breathtaking peaks, and past glistening mountain lakes.

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Difficulties of Hiking Trails in the Alps

Family hiking on a grassy trail with mountains and clouds in the Salzburger Lungau region, Austria.

Easy (blue)

Easy hiking trails in areas of permanent settlement and adjacent forests, running across flat terrain with few gentle inclines.

Two hikers with a dog overlook a scenic, cloud-covered valley from a hilltop in Salzburger Lungau during sunrise.

Medium (red)

Mountain hiking trails that require a certain degree of surefootedness. Scarps, water courses, narrow trails, slippery grassy sections, wash-out dirt and muddy sections may be encountered along these trails.

Two hikers rest on a rocky, flower-covered slope with distant mountains under a partly cloudy sky in Salzburger Lungau.

Difficult (black)

Difficult alpine and mountaineering trails that are secured at exposed sections with ropes, manmade stairs, ladders, chains, etc. You may often need your hands to maintain balance and move along the trail. The precise trail is not always clearly recognizable. Occasionally, very exposed areas present a real risk of falling. You may also encounter loose rock and steep grassy or rocky slopes. Summer hikers may well encounter snowy patches from the previous winter.

Requirements:

None, regular running or walking shoes are sufficient. No special equipment necessary. Walkable without use of a hiking map.

Requirements:

A minimum level of orientation is required. Hiking/Trekking/Mountain boots with a good grip sole and covering the ankle are recommended, as is a topographical hiking map of the area in question.

Requirements:

Adequate mountain experience is required. You should also have the skill to properly navigate with a detailed topographical hiking map. Hiking/trekking/mountain boots with a good grip sole and covering the ankle are indispensable. Security facilities like ropes, steps, ladders and the like should not cause any difficulties on the descent. Hiking poles may even be more hindering than helpful.