¬A¬ handbook for travellers in Southern Germany : being a guide to Würtemberg, Bavaria, Austria, Tyrol, Salzburg, Styria, ecc., the Austrian and Bavarian Alps, and the Danube from Ulm to the Black Sea
ROUTE -BOTZEN TO STEPPING. Sect. XXL | hr. from Pfandler’s house through a wool brings you to an alp or mountain meadow of considerable extent, above which rises a bare, rocky mountain- peak, called the Kiffelspitz, On emerg ing from the wood you perceive on way. It is all occupied by pasture. From the Jaufenspitze, which lies on the rt., there is a wide prospect over the chain of Alps E. of the Brenner, The main trunk of the valley turns' due W., a little above St, Leonhard, your 1. 2 log huts
valley, which he will reach in 1 j hr., or pass the to the 1. of the Riffelspitze into the Sarenthal. In an hour he can reach a hamlet called Fahrkleis, and in 4 hrs. more the village of Saren- thein. (See Rte. 216 a.) About y hr8. walk from Holer’s house is Sr. Leonhard , the principal place in the valley of the Passer; it is about T2 in, (4 hr8. walk) from Meram, and 18 from Sterzing. It is beautifully situated in the midst of rich and well- watered pastures, with many fine ■walnut and chestnut
of a furious combat between the Passeyrs under Hofer and the French, in 180S), down the Jaufen- thal, to Sterzing, on the Brenner road (Rte. 217), a walk of 6 hrs. A horse may be hired in St. Leonhard for 2 fl, 42 kr. up to the summit of the pass (3 hrs.), a steep ascent nearly all the as Moos (2 hrs.). There the v: divides, but the path to the Timbier- Joch takes the rt.-hand branch to Ra- benstein, the last village; near which the bed of a dried-up lake is passed: it burst near the end of the last
century, and laid waste the entire valley as far as Meran. Near it there is a small and humble inn. A steep ascent succeeds the path passing through a hamlet called Schönau, and the traveller may reach Sölden in the Oetzthal after a walk of 7 hrs. from Moos. (Rte. 215.) T. he traveller at St. Leonhard, though not intending to pass over the Timbler- Joch, should yet explore the valley leading to it as far as Moos ; to which place, for the sake of variety, he had better go by one bank of the torrent and
return by the other. Starting up the rt. bank to a village called Platt, finely situated on an elevated position, and distant a walk of about 2 hrs. from St. Leonhard, descend then to the river and cross it dffee to Moos by a frail wooden bridge: return to St. Leonhard by the 1. bank. This ex- cursion occupies about 4| hrs., leads through some of the wildest most picturesque mountain scenery ROUTE 216 a. BOTZEN TO STT5BZ1NG OR TO ST, L.LQN- HAUI), IN THE PASSEYRTHAL, By THE SARENTHAL. W.I Sarenthal
