26 KM BASE TRAIL

For the BASE TRAIL, you’ll also start in Haidmühle at 840 meters above sea level. The old border trail—once a “death zone” along the Iron Curtain—winds through the wild “Urwald am Dreisessel” forest, featuring a challenging climb from the Czech side up to the Spicak Mountain, which rises over 1,000 meters high on the border with the Czech Republic. From the start of the 26-km BASE TRAIL, the route continues with a short downhill section, then steeply uphill along the border trail toward the Czech Republic to the 1,333-meter-high Dreisesselberg.
On trails that are partly rocky but mostly flowing, with breathtaking views in the former “Dead Zone” along the Iron Curtain, the route runs directly along the border with the Czech Republic to the tripoint and back via the famous “Steinerne Meer” via the Adalbert-Stifter-Steig toward Riedelsbach. From there, you’ll ride along wonderfully root-strewn singletrack trails in the Riedelsbach Forest, descending a crisp downhill section toward Frauenberg.
Roots, granite boulders, forest road sections, and loose terrain now alternate as you head back via Frauenberg to Haidmühler Filz and the finish area.