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Route course View of the northern Karwendel range and some sections of the route course. © Markus Wechselberger, © Bergverlag Rother GmbH, © Markus WechselbergerPhoto: Markus Wechselberger, Rother Bergverlag
Germany's best-known "freeride descent" is located in a wild rocky cirque of the Karwendel high above Mittenwald. While in midwinter, during good snow conditions, the guests of the Karwendelbahn ski this rock-fringed steep cirque to the mogul slope, in spring the ski tourers are on their own here again. Then the skis usually have to be carried on the lower 350 meters of altitude, which greatly reduces the attractiveness for true "freeriders" so much that they turn to other destinations. Although it is still not lonely in the Dammkar, as a tourer you no longer feel like a ghost driver on a one-way street. At the latest for the overhaul of the cable car (usually in May, sometimes already in April) nothing works without your own ascent effort.
After the ascent through the wild rocky cirque, the ambiance at the end of the cirque appears somewhat surreal. First, you go through a 400 m long tunnel (unlit during the cable car revision - then be sure to take a headlamp) and reach the mountain station of the Karwendelbahn. Next to it is the Karwendel Nature Information Center in the form of an oversized telescope. What won't one do for one's tourists ...
In any case, two peaks are now available. The Northern Linderspitze is climbed most frequently. The Western Karwendelspitze can also be ski toured up to just below the summit in good conditions. View, depth view, and the descent through the shady Dammkar are guaranteed from both summits.
Ascent Directly opposite the parking lot begins a forest road with a barrier. On this initially steep, but soon quite flat towards the northeast, later south to the bench at the valley station of the material cable car. In spring the snow usually begins here. Now we ascend, keeping right, into the "cannon barrel" - a steep gully that leads us up to the Dammkar hut. Here the Viererkar branches off to the right, which also represents a worthwhile ski tour and ends in the Viererscharte. A short flat section brings us to the mountain rescue slope and from the mountain rescue hut it goes right into the rear Dammkar. The narrow cirque now ascends initially with gentle inclination, but soon increasingly steeper (briefly about 35 degrees) westwards up to the Dammkarscharte. From here a slightly ascending tunnel leads west to the mountain station of the Karwendelbahn. The summit ascent to the Northern Linderspitze begins at the mountain restaurant. You ascend eastwards to the panorama trail and
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