Mittersill: Amertaler See route no. 521

The Felbertal leads south to the Felber Tauern, which at 2,481 m is the lowest of the passes over the central and western High Tauern. Earlier, the passes over the mountains were called "Tauern," and later this name applied to the entire mountain range. The low elevation and continuation via the Pass Thurn in the north and the Tauerntal to the south once made the Felber Tauern an important Alpine main ridge crossing. The Amertal, which branches off from the Felbertal and was once called "Ödtal" (Amertaler Öd) due to its remoteness, is today accessible via the Felbertauern road for modern traffic. It ends in a beautiful trough-shaped valley head sculpted by the ice age glacier; above it lies the semicircle of the cirque around the Amersee (Amertaler See).