Vorderer Drachenkopf

A few meters above the valley station of the Ehrwalder Almbahn, cross the cable car and keep right at the edge of the forest. Follow a good forest track gently downhill and enter the valley of a small brook. Ignore the first path leading to the right, but after crossing the brook, follow the wide forest track to the right. This ascends and, after a bend, reaches a small clearing. Turn right there and follow a trail that maintains roughly the same height and quickly leads to a second, larger clearing. On the other side, the trail enters dense forest and shortly afterward reaches a crossing trail; now follow this to the left. Initially passing through an enchanted-looking forest, the trail climbs increasingly briskly, soon following the edge of a scree channel up to the foot of a steep rock face. With some secured passages, the here partly challenging trail ascends the distinctive rock step with partially nice views. As soon as the terrain flattens again, it continues almost leisurely towards the shore of the Seebensee. Keep left along the shore; the trail reaches, shortly after, the forest track that leads to the southern shore. The forest track ends at the material cable car; a comfortable, very winding trail continues the hiking direction to the Coburger Hut, which lies on a very scenic terrain step a little above the Drachensee.

After a break on the hut terrace, briefly return on the previous path but immediately take the first opportunity to turn left. The small trail heads in the direction of the Biberwierer Scharte to the northern foot of the Vorderer Drachenkopf and forks there. Keeping left, it goes around the Vorderer Drachenkopf and into a moderately steep scree basin. The trail again orients itself to the left side here and finally reaches the upper edge of the basin. Markings lead up the steep rocks, and with some first light, slabby scrambling sections, the narrow, often somewhat crumbly ridge between the Hinterer and Vorderer Drachenkopf is reached. Staying left, it continues along the ridge line through the partly airy terrain, with a few more scrambling sections to master. Numerous markings safely lead through the very confusing terrain up to the summit plateau.

The descent initially leads to the trail junction at the northern foot of the Vorderer Drachenkopf. There, turn sharply left and follow the trail to the Biberwierer Scharte. Descend unpleasantly steeply on the other side of the narrow notch; once the trail enters the dwarf pine, it fortunately becomes somewhat easier but remains steep downhill. Subsequently, ignore first two trail junctions to the left, then one to the right. After a long time, a forest track is crossed and shortly afterward reached a second time. Keep right there and, at the immediately following junction, follow the forest track to the left. Although designated as a panorama trail, over the years, it has become overgrown. However, it remains quite flat and leisurely and leads towards Ehrwald. The few junctions are not to be heeded until, after the only significant clearing on the right, a marked trail branches off that crosses a logging track in the larch forest and shortly afterwards descends to the Geißbach. On the other side, a road is quickly reached on the outskirts of Ehrwald, where the route continues right. This joins the Zippermühlstraße after already about one hundred meters, leading left to the Martinsplatz. Those who parked at the Ehrwalder Almbahn follow the road to the right; train passengers continue left through the beautiful Martinsplatz to the Kirchplatz in the center of Ehrwald. There, keep right along the main street for a longer time until, on the right, the Bahnhofsstraße branches off, which unsurprisingly leads directly to the Ehrwald train station.