10.9.2021: Walking the Ranten dale.
We got the key to the gate to the Ranten dale near Krakauschatten, so we can start our walk high up today.
We park the car a bit beneath the Ranten lake, at about 1.800 m asl.
View back into the Rantental valley ...
... and over to the Ranten lake.
Panoramic picture o the head of the Ranten dale with the Ranten lake. Click here or into the picture for a larger display.
Besenheide in voller Blüte, und die Heiudelbeeren bekommen schon rote Blätter.
Ranten lake.
A bit above the Ranten lake, behind a valley step, another lake, for which I didn´t find a name on different maps. Click here or into the picture for a larger display.
On the southern slope above the lake, Auf dem Südhang oberhalb des Sees blüht hier in Massen die common heather (Calluna vulgaris) in abundance.
Common heather (Calluna vulgaris)
Panoramic picture of the nameless tarn above the Ranten lake. Click here or into the picture for a larger display.
Another panoramic picture of the nameless tarn above the Ranten lake. Click here or into the picture for a larger display.
One more panoramic picture of the nameless tarn above the Ranten lake. Click here or into the picture for a larger display.
Fruitifications of the Alpine pasque flower (Pulsatilla alpina). There has been some early snow in August, so they are a bit battered - compressed from above.
View back to the tarn. We have walked further, heading for the Hinterkar gap.
A selfie, for a change.
A "latecomer" of an Alpine pasque flower (Pulsatilla alpina). You don´t see flowers and fruitifications at the same time so frequently.
At an altitude of 2.200 m, we sit down for a longer lunch break. Ernst does not join us for the gap.
At the Hinterkar gap at 2.274 m, Heidi and me also turn back. This view now goes to the North from the gap, in the direction of the Enns valley. We are now standing exactly on the very main ridge of the Alps, here corresponding to the watershe between the rivers Mur and Enns.
View back, to our descent via the large corrie above the nameless tarn.
Once more a panorama of the nameless tarn between Ranten lake and the Hinterkar gap, which presumably is the gap in the ridge behind the right end of the tarn. Click here or into the picture for a larger display.
Back at the steep descent to the Ranten lake. The steep escarpments behind with the Knarrnspitze (2.387 m) far right are in shadow now, as compared to the morning.
Back at the wonderfully red blueberry leaves.
Common heather (Calluna vulgaris) on a big bolder at the bottom of the valley ...
... and on the shore of the Ranten lake.
Fruitifications of the common adenostyles (Hochstauden-Alpendost, "Filziger Alpendost", Adenostyles alliariae).
Panoramic picture of the Ranten lake. Click here or into the picture for a larger display.
Ranten Lake
Common heather (Calluna vulgaris) at the Ranten lake.
A last picture of the Ranten lake, ...
... and a short leg back to the car, passing by the outflow from the lake.
