Hello,

My husband and I will be driving around the Bavarian alps for 8 days in mid July. I wanted to do hut to hut hiking for 2 of those days and stay one night at a hut. I have looked at the recommended hut booking website:
http://www.dav-huettensuche.de/index.php?pagedef=home

Even after translating it into English I am still having trouble figuring out which mountain peaks to choose and which huts to look at. Does anyone have a good map recommendation for hikes? Or can anyone recommend a specific hut for a 2 day hike ( 1/2 day there 1/2 day back)? I was hoping to start hiking up somewhere around the REIT Im winkle area or any of the surrounding towns. We would have to begin the hike did end it in the same place so that we can pick up our car and keep going.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks. Ann

Here is a website (in German, but I can help you, if need be) of Huette zu Huette Wandern near Oberstdorf/Allgaeu, about 90 miles southwest of Munich, not far from ake Constance. This area has true hut-to-hut hikes, fairly alpine.

Reit im Winkl has more day trips to various huts. I entered "Huettenweanderungen Reit im Winkl", and got a raft of mentions, all in German.

I am familiar with both regions. I grew up near Obersdorf and hiked as a kid some of these trails. My amily now lives near Reit, and I am familiar with some of the places mentioned in the Reit website. THey are more inns with restaurants

If you really want to do Hut-to-hut hiking, the trails near Oberstdorf would probably be more what you are looking for. The Edmunbd Probst Haus, for example, is a nice somewhat challenging trailhead for a hike.

The area around Reit im Winkl is called Chiemgau, the mountains are called Chiemgauer Alpen. Might be helpful.
Since you have found the DAV pages already, they issue and sell the best hiking maps available for the bavarian alps.
This is the DAV online shop for maps:
http://www.dav-shop.de/category.aspx...MeprmskFEbiw--
They can also be bought in bookstores and mountain equipment stores in bavaria.
The character of Chiemgau mountains is pretty soft. They aren't very rocky, often have meadows up to the top. Hence, the huts are more like "alpine restaurants", so to speak.
Famous peaks in Chiemgau are chiefly the ones that form the first ridge, since they offer views into the mountains as well as out in the plain land. Kampenwand is probably the most famous mountain, yet it has a cable car for tourists, as has the Hochfelln. In between the two is the mountain Hochgern, which I like best. (no cable car). Yet all of them are one day activities, go up in the morning, have a snack, go back down.
A bit further south (20km) starts the next "mountain area" with completely different character, the so-called "Wilder Kaiser". These mountains look a tiny bit like the dolomites and are popular among rock climbers. Not so good for normal hiking also, I think, since the peaks are quite difficult.
This is a good site listing all the so-called "Münchener Hausberge" (the mountains within day-distance from Munich, that you can do in one day from Munich)
The link-list on the left names the different mountain stocks and gives hiking tours in the respective areas:
- Karwendel
· Kaiser
· Wetterstein
· Mieminger
· Rofan
· Bay.Voralpen
· Ammergauer
· Lechtaler
· Berchtesgaden
· Chiemgauer
A great hut is Meilerhütte above Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Wetterstein)
http://dav-huettensuche.de/index.php...tten_id=222602
Also great: Kärlingerhaus, at Königssee (Berchtesgaden, not that far from Reit im Winkl). You take the first boat across Königssee in the morning, disembark at the rear end of the fjord-like lake an start your hike there. You can descend and ascend on different routes using different boat stops.
http://dav-huettensuche.de/index.php...5bqb82fgji6n26

forgot to add the steinmandl-link: http://www.steinmandl.de/Homepage.htm

Thanks for the question and thanks for the answers. A trip like this sounds interesting.

I'm traveling to the Munich area this early May. I really want to do a hut to hut hike. I'm looking for something around 13km or so. The sites are tough to navigate being in German. I would like a less touristy experience and a little more roughing it in the great outdoors one. There are so many areas of the Bavarian but what area is a good one to do a hut to hut? Thanks for the link to the trail maps. I'll get one before I leave so I can map out my loop. I'm also not sure where you park for the night before you head out to the huts. I'm probably just going for two days and one night.

http://germanyiswunderbar.com/southe...g-in-the-alps/
sorry, I didn't see where you posted to the above link already. Wish my knees were twenty years younger, this sounds great.

Think about hiking from Castle Linderhof to Castle Neuschwanstein (2 Days/One Night at Kenzenhütte)
The Heike crosses the Ammergebirge and is difficult. You can easily spice it up by adding peaks along the way.
The Alpenverein Maps you'd are BY6 and BY7
This is an overview of the available maps of the german alpine club:
http://www.alpenverein.de/chameleon/...2013_22650.pdf
A digital version, compatible with GPS is available as well.

Corr: The hike is not difficult.

A less strenous yet rewarding "hike with a hut" would be the one to Schachen house, between Garmisch and Mittenwald.
You can start the hike in either town.
Near the hut where you can spend the night you also have the probably least visited of King Ludwig's mansions and the Alpine Botanical Garden. The only way to get there is on foot, shortest route is 3-4 hrs.
http://www.schloesser.bayern.de/engl...s/schachen.htm

Cowboy1968, thanks for that link! I've added it to my list of things I must see one of these days.

~Liz