Via the south side to the Wank

Follow the "Schalmeiweg" to the east and you will reach the gorge of the same name. Continue along a wide gravel path, cross a side stream and then turn left. Now follow a narrow footpath (steps in places) up a steeper incline through the forest. You come to a fork and keep right here to reach the Gamshütte hut, first steeply and then in a flatter crossing. Turn left in front of it, cross a final section of forest and, after keeping left at another fork (signposted "Eckenhütte"), reach a large meadow where you leave the unmanned Eckenhütte on the right. You come to a wide footpath and follow this to the right. (Signposted " Wank, Wankbahn middle station " ). The ascent leads uphill in many hairpin bends in the sparse pine forest. Keep right at the next fork (signposted "Wank"). Without the slightest problem of orientation, the route continues uphill in many hairpin bends at a mostly pleasant gradient. After the pine trees have been replaced by mountain pines, you reach open meadow terrain. Keep left in front of the cable car mountain station and climb directly up to the Wank summit house, where a unique panorama awaits, including down to the Garmisch basin with the Wetterstein mountains towering behind it and across to the Karwendel ranges towering to the east.
The descent follows the ascent route.