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Goetheweg: Hafelekar – Pfeishütte and back

Innsbruck · Tyrol · Austria

Challenging

Rated by Tirol Werbung

Getting there

Nordkettenbahn Talstation Innsbruck, Congress (Hungerburgbahn) or by car: Congress Parkgarage

Distance
10.4km
Duration
5:00h
Ascent
769m
Descent
764m
Hafelekarspitze from the Gleirschjöchlsteig

Photo: Leonhard Lenz, CC0 / Wikimedia Commons

Status today

  • Innsbrucker Nordkettenbahnen Betriebs GmbH closed for maintenance until 19 Nov
  • Season: June – October · out of season

Map and elevation profile

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↑ 769 m · ↓ 764 m
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solid: there · dashed: back the same way
Profile approx., calculated from Copernicus DEM GLO-90; the figures above are the official ones.

Along the route

  1. 1

    Restaurant Top of Innsbruck

    Restaurant · at the start · 2256 mOpen all year
  2. 2

    Hafelekarspitze (2,334 m)

    Mountain Summit · 2334 m
  3. 3

    Pfeishütte

    Mountain Hut · 1922 mMid-June to mid-October    Pfeishütte from the south-east

    Photo: HerrAdams, CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons

About the route

From the Hafelekar mountain station along the ridge over the Mühlkarscharte and the Mandlscharte to the Pfeishütte (1,922 m), and back the same way. Tirol Werbung grades it difficult: an alpine mountain path for experienced mountain walkers. Two to two and a half hours to the hut, four and a half to five hours there and back.

Nearby

Sources (6) · last checked October 2026

Route data checked: October 2026