Lahngang lakes via Neusteinsattel and Bärensteig

In Gößl, at the roundabout, you leave the lake shore, pass a small church, and at the upper end of the village you reach the beginning of the marked hiking trail towards the Lahngang lakes and Pühringer hut. You follow this uphill to the first crossing of a forest road, turn right there, and follow the gravel road to the viewpoint "Lustiges Eck." Over a hill crest, the path continues to a fork. Here, you go straight and slightly downhill into the cirque of Vorderbachalm, where you turn right at the first huts to reach a footpath leading to a bridge over the brook and ascend back to the forest road on the other side. At the following fork, you can keep right and shortly after turn left onto a pull-out path that merges back into the forest road further above. Over a left curve, you follow the path to the next right turn, where you leave it at a faint red arrow and climb straight up over an old clear-cut area without a path. Following a gully slightly to the right uphill, you pass an old ski marking just below the foot of the cliff. This karst gully with scattered cairns leads to a small meadow with a hunting stand on the right side. Here you keep left and climb steeply just below the cliff over rocky terrain through sparse larch trees. At the top, the rock face bends slightly to the right, and behind it, a clear path goes straight into the mountain pine. You must bypass a fallen tree on the right and immediately return to the path, which gradually bends left. Along the left edge of a mountain pine-covered gully, the old path winds through the karst here. Finally, you reach the Neusteinsattel saddle, where the view to the opposite Salzofen peak opens. Across flat karst terrain and along some cairns, once even crossing an old wooden bridge, you reach a rocky gully where the path bends left and downhill. Where this small gorge forks, you could continue straight along the foot of a rock face to the former Neustein alm, or turn right behind a passage through a sinkhole and begin a short stair-like descent marking the start of the Bärensteig, which initially leads slightly downhill and then makes a shallow right curve through wavy karst terrain. Following cairns, the path ascends briefly again to the Bärensattel, where you get a first view of the Vorderer Lahngangsee. Just behind, the trail, clearly visible here, descends steeply in switchbacks. A somewhat exposed rock ramp leads right and is secured with a steel cable, then continues downhill diagonally. An old block field is bypassed in a slight ascent against the slope, and finally, the clearly visible path descends again in a wide left curve into the Elmgrube, where it meets the marked hiking trail no. 214. This leads left to the Vorderer Lahngangsee and further downhill back to Gößl, where a fairly inconspicuous left turn far down must not be missed to avoid descending to Schachen.