Spielberghorn (2044m)

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05/09/2004 - back to sunny weather again today. As the bus services were not as frequent on a Sunday, we decided to do a circular from Saalbach. We took the cable car to the Kohlmaiskopf to start, took the path to the west, and were soon rewarded by views of the Spielberghorn. We walked west along to the Barnkogel shelter (10 points), and then down to the Spielbergtorl. We then contured around the slopes of the Spielberghorn, and down to the col below the Kleberkopf.

From the col we walked to the summit of the Kleberkopf (1757m - 20 points) and then retraced our steps to the Spielbergtorl, and took the path to the summit of the Spielberghorn (2044m -35 points). As it was a sunny Sunday, lots of people were out walking - which made some of the tricky bits more awkward. From the summit most people descended by the same path, but as we had plenty of time we decided to walk "around the back of the mountain". An excellent choice - although very tired by the end, we had much of the mountain and the marmots to ourselves.

We walked along the ridge to a col before the final top and looked down into an enclosed valley which would be our descent route. Continuing down and round the moutain, after loosing about 300m of height we picked up a path crossing the lower slopes of the south side of the Spielberghorn. This seemeded to take ages, but eventually it started upwards towards the Spielbergtorl. Once we reached the col we took path 14 back to Saalbach.

We had really enjoyed the walk today, although it had been pretty tough (some whinging in the party!) with the climb back up to the col at the end.
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Spielberghorn. Kleberkopf.
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Onwards ridge from Spielberhorn - by this time we had the mountain to ourselves. Flickr Descent.

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