The audio tracks for spaces 01 and 02 are online on our website. From space 03 (Rettenbachalm) and beyond, the trails you will follow move in an internet-free zone, therefore is it necessary to download the files in advance.
Route
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Stage Zero
Embark on the Great Space Walk now, in your bathroom!
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Space 1
Accessible all year and by car - Bathroom
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The Great Space Walk starts at home in your bathroom. Close the door. Take your mobile phone, connect it to the headphones, open audio track 01, go to the sink. Your hands should be free while listening, so put away your phone. Press play (Track 01).
Should you be starting from the Trinkhalle Bad Ischl, there are bathrooms downstairs where you can use a sink.
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- 5 min Voices: Edith Pühringer, David Steindl-Rast, Harald Welzer, Ariadne von Schirach. Englisch version performed by actors Philipp Hochmair, Emma Nova, Laurence Rupp, Angela Winkler.
Journey to Bad Ischl.
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Stage One
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Space 2
Accessible all year and by car - Bench in front of the parish church Bad Ischl
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In Bad Ischl, there is a bench in front of the parish church’s main entrance. This is where space 2 begins. Sit down and press play (track 02), put away your phone and follow the voices …
IMPORTANT: should a mass or another event be held at that time, please wait or come back later.
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- 30 min Voices: Elisabeth von Samsonow, Jutta Leskovar, Christian Öhler, Anna Morbitzer-Sassi, Aleida Assmann, Hubert von Goisern, Edith Pühringer, Rebecca Raue.
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From here on: Internet-free space!
Download audio file and instructions in advance.Space 3
Accessible all year and by car - Rettenbachalm
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“All this progress – was it planned or did it just happen?”
“Where I stand now ...
a pasture can’t just happen to you ...”
„We are currently trying to recreate the thyroid to produce hormons in the human.“
„To finish, ... developing myself?”
„I can’t go back.” - 10 min Voices: Edith Pühringer, Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, Hubert von Goisern, Herbert Grill, Harald Stachelscheid, Rebecca Raue.
ATTENTION
From here on forward there is no internet!Please download audio files and instructions in advance.
Test them in flight mode without WI-FI internet access.From Rettenbachalm, the trail leads through alpine terrain. There are therefore the corresponding risks and dangers. It is the responsibility of each person taking the route to check whether they have the necessary skills and knowledge to deal with the resulting dangers. Everyone is responsible for obtaining the necessary professional advice. Nature conservation regulations must be complied with.
An unaccompanied, unguided ascent is from the Ischlerhütte on is only recommended for experienced mountaineers. At three points (tracks 8, 9, 12), the Great Space Walk detours into pathless terrain, leaving the marked trails. Track 8 leads into the immediate vicinity of an unsecured doline, a sinkhole. There is the particular danger of falling into it. Here, too, you walk at your own risk. It is not recommended to hike the trails in snowy conditions and in off-season when the cabins are closed. In the Totes Gebirge, there is no telephone network available over long distances and emergency calls cannot be made. Make sure to take sufficient drinking water with you on the tour!
For safe orientation on the trail in the mountains, we recommend using the GPS track with the Alpenvereinaktiv or Outdooractive app.
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Space 4
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Space 5
Stay overnight at Ischlerhütte.
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Stage Two
Ischlerhütte → Hochkogelhaus
Internet-free zone
Walking time: about 3 hours
You will leave in the morning before dawn, walking under the stars with a head lamp, following the meadow path on the alm und then the mountain trail, you’ll see how the sky slowly brightens, until you no longer need the head lamp in the dawn. Arriving at the mountain meadow, wait and experience the sunrise. After a short descent to the Hochkogelhaus, you can relax after the early start, enjoy the good food and gather strength for the next day, the queen’s stage.
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Space 6
- Mountain meadow at the crossroads
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“I don’t understand what this means, and I don’t understand how to get there.
Your space has turned inside out, the inside is now the outside.
I am part of what will happen.
Every single human being went down an unknown path when s/he was born.
Suddenly into a blinding light.” - 6 min Voices: Anne Tlach, Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, Elisabeth von Samsonow.
Stay overnight at Hochkogelhaus.
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Stage Three
Hochkogelhaus → Appelhaus
(Alternatives: Rinnerhütte and Wildenseehütte)
Walking time: about 8 hours (to Appelhaus)
*(about 6 hours to Rinnerhütte, about 7 hours to Wildenseehütte / Rinnerhütte: Limited number of beds / Wildenseehütte only with the key provided by Sektion Auseerland)
Take your time for listening and use these listening spaces for a break.
Stage three is the queen’s stage, often underestimated by mountaineers. You will start early in the morning; your path will take you into one of the loneliest and entirely unspoilt areas of the Alps. Over rugged rocks you will cross the one of loneliest parts of the Totes Gebirge, then descent to Wildensee and walk through a high forest (Henarwald) to Appelhaus or alternatively to Rinner- or Wildenseehütte.
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Space 7
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Space 8
Stay overight at Appelhaus or Rinnerhütte/Wildenseehütte.
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Stage Four
Appelhaus → Pühringerhütte
Internet-free space
Walking time: about 5.5 hours (from Appelhaus)
The fourth stage is a relaxed hike along the high plateau, a world between meadows and rocks, a short way downhill to the Elmgrube, then again uphill to Elmsee and Pühringerhütte.
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Space 9
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Space 10
Stay overnight at the Pühringerhütte.
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Stage Five
Pühringerhütte → Prielschutzhaus
Internet-free zone
Walking time: about 7 hours
Stage five is a climb up to a passage into the stony world, reaching the stone desert by afternoon. From there, you will leave the world of the high plateau, look down into the green valley and go downhill to Prielschutzhaus.
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Space 11
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Space 12
Stay overnight at the Prielschutzhaus.
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Stage Six
Prielschutzhaus → Hinterstoder
End of the internet-free zone
Walking time: about 2.5 hours
From the lodge descent eastwards, through Polsterlucke to Hinterstoder.
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End of internet-free zone
Space 13
Return home from Hinterstoder.
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Stage Zero
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Space 14
Accessible all year and by car The Great Space Walk can be walked in individual modules, e.g. just the bathroom and the church, or bathroom to Rettenbachalm, or to the beginning of the hiking trail. From Rettenbachalm, which can be reached by car, taxi or bike, the tour of STAGE ONE will take you via an easy mountain hiking trail to Ischlerhütte (about three hours). They serve good food there and then you can return back down or you can stay overnight and continue in the trail the next day.
