Hiking tour Prossliner Schwaige

Stamina
Technique
Experience
Landscape
Difficulty:
Easy
Distance: 9 km
Ascent: 667 m Descent: 668 m
Duration:03:30 h
Lowest point:1193 m
Highest point:1815 m
Best season
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Short description

Hike to the Prossliner Schwaige in Seis.

Description

Seis and the Seiser Alm are a favourite postcard motif. No wonder: after all, the Seiser Alm is the largest high alpine pasture in Europe and therefore ideal for hikers.

Starting point of the tour

Bad Ratzes near Seis

Destination point of the tour

Prossliner Schwaige

Route description

The hike begins in Bad Ratzes near Seis in the Dolomites. Trail 1 leads to the right over the Frötschbach stream and into the forest. At a fork in the path, hikers take path no. 1a and hike along the Proßlinger Steig to the Prossliner Schwaige on the Seiser Alm, where a fabulous view of the Schlern opens up.

Continue on trail no. 1a to the Sciliar plateau, where mountain enthusiasts take the tourist trail marked 1. The tourist trail takes you to the Schlernboden hut and then descends in hairpin bends to the starting point in Bad Ratzes near Seis.

Trail signs

1, 1a

Equipment

Hiking boots, wind and rain protection, sunglasses

Public transport

Trains stop at Klausen railway station, bus connection Klausen-Seiser Alm.

Directions

Brenner motorway A22, exit Klausen-Seiser Alm/Schlerngebiet, SS12 to Waidbruck, then towards Seiser Alm.

Parking

Bad Ratzes car park near Seis

Type of trail

Length 9 km

Author

Editorial team south-tirol.com

Seiser Alm-Schlern

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