The Hohe Dirn Loop from Losenstein

Starting from the train station in Losenstein, follow the Goldgrubenweg westward along the bike path until you reach the Grilln farmhouse (look for a yellow signpost here!), where you cross the train tracks and follow the red-marked hiking trail to the Ebenführer house. From here, hike along the red-marked trail (Trail No. 31 / HD5) into the Klausgraben and, following the markings, over stairs, reinforced sections, and two footbridges past a waterfall into the gorge forest. You’ll need to cross the stream bed several times along the way, so either good balance or sure-footedness is helpful. Once you reach the top, leave the ravine via a final bridge and hike along the left side of the stream until you reach the next small bridge. The exit to the Hintsteingraben Road leads straight up from there.

Follow the Hintsteingraben Road for half a kilometer to the “Bauern-Blasl.” At the fork in the trail, turn left and continue uphill along the marked forest road (Trail No. 31 / HD5) through a series of switchbacks until you leave the road and reach the fork with Trail No. 31a (Hintsteiner, Lugstadel). There, follow Trail No. 31a downhill for about 200 m, then follow Trail No. 33 as it climbs ever more steeply up the forest slope to a saddle, where the trail leads us quickly to the right to the summit of the Hohe Dirn (1,134 m). After a short break at the summit, the Anton-Schosserhütte (1,158 m) is a pleasant, relatively short hike of about 15 minutes via Trail No. 33, so you can now enjoy a longer rest at the hut.

For the descent, we take Trail No. 33 over the Sonnkogel heading south. A short descent is followed by a short ascent; after repeating this several times, we reach the summit of the Sonnkogel (1,177 m). We stop our descent southward at the next fork in the trail; from there, Trail No. 467 leads us northeast down to Hamberg. We return to Losenstein on paved roads (with short detours onto trails). A final underpass takes us directly back to the railroad tracks.