Mountain route Heindlbodensteig

We start the route at a small parking lot (by a bridge), about 1.6 km from the beginning of the Stodertal, where the Weißenbach flows into the Steyr.

A yellow sign already warns here about the dangers of the Heindlbodensteig. You immediately climb a very steep forest slope, which soon leads to a forest road.

Now on the road, first slightly descending, then ascending, always to the right of the stream bed up to a valley flattening ("Heindlboden"). Here we leave the forest road and initially hike easily along the stream uphill.

Then it gets serious: the terrain becomes steeper, the narrow path mostly runs high above the deeply cut stream bed with frequent ups and downs. The most difficult sections are secured with (thin) steel cables, a ladder also helps over a steep step, and about halfway through the gorge you descend to the stream bed.

The bridge that was once here is destroyed. You cross the stream and later once again and reach the route logbook from 2005 (still not fully filled in November 2021!).

Here the main difficulties are over. The path leads up a forest slope on the right, then through a clearing and you enter an old-growth forest. Very scenic, you finally reach a forest road.

From here downhill to an alpine pasture and on to the wide stream bed of the Hungeraubach. Continuing right, past a monument and a dam, you reach a large junction before Bernerau on a leisurely hike.