Aldino - Göller lake - Rotwand - Aldino

Category: easy
Starting point: the car park below the parish hall in the village centre
Walking time: ca. 3 hours
Difference in altitude: 150 m
Possibilities for refreshments: Inn zur Krone, Inn Ebner-Pfiffikus, Inn Pigleiderhof, Inn Schönblick, cafeteria Irene
Route: Follow the one-way street immediately below the Raiffeisenkasse bank. Soon you reach the main road. Cross this to the left and follow the sign 6 as far as the signpost that indicates Göllersee to the left. Follow this route and after about 200 m. you reach the "Pigleidermoos". This is a nature reserve, a marshy area with ponds, in which water lilies, reeds and various other marshland plants thrive, and in spring the frogs give a concert. The route marked "R" leads past the nature reserve over slabs of ground-down porphyry rock, down to the idyllic Göllersee, a small lake.
The route continues to the right of the lake, with the signs for route "S". soon you reach a small pond the "Mittersee" and immediately below it the "Bärenbad". In summer the "Mittersee" and the "Bärenbad" are both almost dried up. Here there is a sign pointing to the Rotwand. After about 15 minutes you reach this unique viewpoint over the Etsch Valley. Be careful by the Rotwand - the porphyry rock face falls steeply away here, but the view is amazing, and almost takes one’s breath away when an up-draught blows in your face.
You return from the Rotwand on the forest road and follow this for about 20 minutes. Then turn left and follow the path marked "O" up to the level of the "Pigleidermoos" as far as Pigleiderhof inn. Continue on the road and commercial route to Inn Schönblick and then on the main road back to the starting point.
If you bear left at the nature reserve you will in any case reach Inn Schönblick on the route marked "R".
Special tip: On the way to the Göllersee (after the high-voltage electricity lines on the right) you come to a large rock on a slope. This rock was called the witches’ stone and there is a strange story about it …

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