Obere Firstalm
1369 m · Karwendel & Wetterstein · DE
You can walk to 6 huts from here in a day, listed below with times and grades, and we read the calendars of 31 huts in this network daily, so a multi-night route through here can be checked night by night.
Obere Firstalm is an alpine hut at 1369 m in the Karwendel & Wetterstein, DE. 6 other huts can be reached from here on foot in a day.
How to book
You book Obere Firstalm directly with the hut. HutScanner is a planning tool and does not take bookings or hold beds.
Or contact the hut directly: [email protected], +49 8026 7302.
Walkable from here
- Bodenschneidhaus - 0h52, 2.22 km, +157 m
- Schönfeldhütte - 1h51, 4.78 km, +315 m
- Weißenburger Hütte - 2h08, 6.39 km, +333 m
- Albert-Link-Hütte - 2h26, 5.76 km, +650 m
- Blecksteinhaus - 2h40, 6.39 km, +676 m
- Kesselalm - 5h56, 15.81 km, +821 m
Times are estimates for an average fit hiker - terrain and conditions vary. Grades are the SAC hiking scale, judged the way the app judges them: the hardest ground that runs far enough to characterise the leg.
About Karwendel & Wetterstein
The Karwendel is a compact limestone range north of Innsbruck in the Austrian Tirol, laced with well-marked hut-to-hut routes. Almost all huts book through the shared Alpenverein system, which shows exact availability by date and room type. Austrian huts tend to be less oversubscribed than the Dolomites or Mont Blanc, and reservations usually open in the new year.
Planning a route through Obere Firstalm
Booking one hut is the easy half. The work is the chain: every night needs a bed, at a hut you can walk to from the one before, on consecutive dates, and one full night sends you back to the start. From Obere Firstalm there are 6 onward huts within a day's walk, listed above, inside a Karwendel & Wetterstein network of 104 huts. HutScanner searches that network for a sequence that works on your dates, rather than leaving you to try the huts one at a time.
Obere Firstalm books online but publishes no calendar HutScanner can read, so a route through it is planned around the 31 huts in Karwendel & Wetterstein that do publish one, and this night is confirmed with the hut itself. Plan a multi-night route from Obere Firstalm.
If you plan trips through ChatGPT or Claude, they can run this same search for you without opening the app, over the regions HutScanner has reviewed by hand. How that works is described in using HutScanner with AI assistants, and the endpoint is documented in the OpenAPI spec.