The sled in Hohentauern - Styria - Austria - up to 1708m on Edelrautehütte is 4.9 km long and has a constant slope of about 10% of a total height of 470 altimeters. There are enough parking spaces at the cross-country ski center in Hohentauern, only 300m away from the toll station (start and end of the run). There are only a 200m long flat section approximately 500 meters after the toll station. The toboggan run on the toll road to the hut Edelrautehütte leads down to the last kilometer through the forest and therefore there are only a few good view points. But in stormy weather is the entire tour through the forest protected from wind. Above, during the Edelrautehütte there is a more better and more beautiful panorama over the mountains of Gesäuse and behind the Edelrautehütte on the "Großen Bösenstein". The hut Edelrautehütte in Hohentauern - Scheibelalm is the beginning of a small valley from the mountains Hauseck 1982m, Großen Bösenstein 2448m, Kleinen Bösenstein 2395m and Großen Hengst 2159m is formed. There are also the two very romantic alpine lakes Großer Scheibelsee and Kleiner Scheibelsee. The place Hohentauern in Styria is recommended not only in winter for sledding, cross country skiing and skiing but also in the summer for walking, cycling and mountain biking a lot.
In any case, you should be very careful and go tobogganing, especially in curves right, because on the toll road in winter driving some cars up to the parking lot is located a half kilometer in front of the Edelrautehütte. This path from the parking to Edelrautehütte is even illuminated so that the late returnees find safe again to the car. Because of the very hospitable Edelrautehütte you should absolutely take headlamps, because it can be easy to overlook that one for sheer comfort of time and meanwhile it has become dark outside. Best time to toboggan is between 16h and 17:30, because in this time is the toll road for cars closed.
Hohentauern is a beautiful mountain village with 540 inhabitants, directly on the "Triebener Tauern", with an altitude of 1274 m on the alpine pass between Trieben and Judenburg. The 92km ² great community Hohentauern is surrounded by 20 two-thousand high mountains in the austrian alps - Niedere Tauern. The highest mountain is the Großen Bösenstein with 2.448m. It is also the highest mountain in the Rottenmanner Tauern, a mountain range in the Low Tauern. The Great Bösenstein is best done by the Edelrautehütte 1708m in about 2 to 2.5 hours. Until just before the Edelrautehütte can be reached by car via a toll road from Hohentauern.
Even the Illyrians, Etruscans, Celts, Venetians used the Triebener Tauern pass in Austria as a link between Mur valley and Palten valley. The Romans built the first paved road on the Triebener Tauern. The first buildings in Hohentauern were a church, a station for horses and an inn. Today, Hohentauern has 650 beds at the 4-star hotels to simple hut accommodation. Anyone who spends his holidays in Hohentauern has to enjoy in any case the purity of nature, clear mountain lakes, fresh mountain air and beautiful alpine meadows.
Among other activities in Hohentauern, such as for example Hiking and mountain biking in the summer is the nature park Keltenberg a very interesting offer. With a forest path, a waterway, a rock and cave in the former world, a 60m slide and a pond at Lakeside Village at the lake Weberteich in Hohentauern. In winter are the ski slopes for skiing and tobogganing and the Styrian trail mark "excellent cross-country ski center Hohentauern very interesting and recommended.
Safety Tips for Sledding - Sledding:
- Who's going sledding in the afternoon has to take on any case, head lamps, since it gets dark early in winter. So you can stay longer and enjoy the comfortable rest on the Oberst Klinke hut.
- Take T-shirt, sweater and cap for changing with you, so you do not get sick.
- Do sledding always in control. Before little children should be sleigh at a greater distance an adult.
- With good hiking shoes you can brake and steer on slippery toboggan runs.
- Children they may toboggan alone, should put on a ski helmet and ski goggles in any case.
- On the ascent go on the right side, so you avoid collisions with downhill toboggan, sled driver and ski tour walker.
- Even in winter you can drive with cars on the toll road to the parking 500m in front of the hut Edelrautehütte. Best you toboggan between 16h and 17:30, the road is in this time closed for cars.
