Mountain Hike
Kellerjochhütte

Leave Schwaz on the City Bus that takes you to Hochpillberg and Frieden Hotel. From the bus station, continue straight ahead along the road. Walk past Grafenast Hotel and the lift station. Continue along the road obeying the posted signs for “Kellerjochhütte” and “Alter Kellerjochweg”. This is a gentle ascent changing between footpath, path, dirt road and along the slope through groves. At an elevation of about 1600 metres, leave “Alter Kellerjochweg” and take the right fork onto waymarked Jägersteig trail. There is almost no elevation change on your way through the forest until you reach Naunzalm (Niederleger), situated in wide open alpine terrain. Follow the path to the small, old log cabin and its wayside cross. Walk past the cross and follow the dirt road that zigzags up the hill to Naunzalm-Hochleger (do not take the right fork to “Galtererweg” at the old cabin of Niederleger). From Hochleger keep to the designated trail towards “Kellerjochhütte” and you will see the shelter for a long time before finally reaching it from a northwestern direction.

Tip! Schwaz is a beautiful town with a great number of sights and attractions. There is Freundsberg Castle housing the museum of local history. The impressive gothic church features two parallel naves and two altars, just like the church of Rattenberg. At the church, the citizens used to sit separate from the miners who in the Middle Ages came from all over Europe to mine silver in what was one of the wealthiest places on the entire continent.