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Stone Lamb

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  • The small parking lot at the beginning of the forest road to Kalte Herberge.
    The small parking lot at the beginning of the forest road to Kalte Herberge.
    Photo: Cathleen Peer, Alpenverein Innsbruck

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    Actually, the Stone Lamb is not a peak, but more a whim of nature. This breathtaking stone formation immediately catches your eye as soon as you are at an altitude of about 2100m. The closer you get to the formation, the clearer the "sheep shape" becomes. Standing directly in front of it, you actually only see stacked stone slabs. Therefore, some distance from the goal is useful. Moreover, you are fascinated anyway by the proximity and the panorama around the Olperer, so your eyes are only for it.

    Author’s recommendation

    Very well doable as a bike and hike route. The long approach via the forest road to the point (2085m) can then be covered by bike, which greatly facilitates the descent.
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    moderate
    Overall difficulty
    moderate

    Derived from the technical difficulty and the stamina requirements.

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    Highest point
    Stone Lamb, 2,528 m
    Lowest point
    Holzebensiedlung, 1,507 m
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    Track types

    Dirt road 76.55%Path 23.44%
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    10.6 km
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    3.2 km
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    Safety information

    Beware of grazing livestock. In the upper part, a short secured rope section. Surefootedness required, risk of falling!

    Tips and suggestions

    The time indications under the point "Duration" refer to the entire route including ascent and descent, but without breaks.

    Possibility to eat and overnight at the Gasthaus Olpererblick. Info at: http://www.olpererblick.at

    Roadbook

    From the parking lot in Holzebensiedlung, it initially goes quite leisurely on the forest road along the "Kreuzweg" towards the "Kalte Herberge" to the northeast. This small chapel is not directly on the way, but a short detour is worthwhile. Then continue southeast into the Wildlahnertal. Here you meet the alternative starting point at the entrance to the Wildlahnertal. Now it always goes southeast on the right side of the creek into the valley. The forest road winds up in several hairpin bends until it eventually disappears. Now it continues on a very well-marked trail. Initially still through alpine rose bushes and meadows, the vegetation decreases until you are finally on gravelly terrain. The rock formation of the "Lamb" is always in view. Soon you reach a kind of saddle/ridge on which you continue eastward. A short descent follows over a secured rope passage. Immediately afterward, you go up again over slabs and the goal is reached. You can now go further on the slabs to the end to be even closer to the Olperer. But be careful, there is no official path here anymore and the slabs are partly crisscrossed with deep rock crevices. The descent follows the ascent route with the perspective being completely new again.
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    Public transport

    By train to Matrei am Brenner station and then by regional bus into the Schmirntal. There is a bus stop "Holzebensiedlung" and another one at the Gasthof Olpererblick directly at the entrance to the Wildlahnertal. Information about schedules is available on the websites of ÖBB (www.oebb.at) and the Tirol transport association (www.vvt.at). Under the "Anfahrtsplaner" button, the route with exact times is calculated.

    Directions

    From Innsbruck on the A13 Brenner motorway towards Brenner to the Matrei / Steinach exit. There leave the motorway and drive via Steinach and Stafflach to St. Jodok. In St. Jodok, after the town center, turn left towards Schmirn and drive into the Schmirntal in some hairpin bends. In the town center of Schmirn, turn right after the church and drive up to Holzebensiedlung. Follow the narrow road to the highest point. Before the road leads downhill again, there are a few parking spaces left and right of the road at the beginning of the forest road / Kreuzweg "Kalte Herberge".

    Parking

    Some parking spaces left and right of the road at the beginning of the forest road to the "Kalte Herberge" in Holzebensiedlung.

    Coordinates

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    47.084026, 11.574984
    DMS
    47°05'02.5"N 11°34'29.9"E
    UTM
    32T 695452 5217719
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    Author’s map recommendations

    Alpine club map sheet no. 31/3 Brenner mountains available from the Alpine Club Innsbruck (www.alpenverein-ibk.at)

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    Equipment

    Standard mountain hiking equipment with first aid kit and mobile phone. Sturdy ankle-high shoes and poles for the descent. When doing a bike and hike route, additionally an MTB helmet for the descent.

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    Parts of this content were machine translated from German.

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    Difficulty
    moderate
    Overall difficulty
    moderate

    Derived from the technical difficulty and the stamina requirements.

    Distance
    13.9 km
    Duration
    5:00 h
    Ascent
    1,021 m
    Descent
    1,021 m
    Highest point
    2,528 m
    Lowest point
    1,507 m
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