Feilnbach Mountains Ultra Trail

Posted On January 6, 2024

One of my dreams is to explore all summits within my home training area in a single route. In December 2019 we moved to Bruckmühl in the lovely Mangfall valley. The closest start point to explore the Mangfall mountains is a beautiful town called Bad Feilnbach which is a 20 minutes drive by car. In 2020 when I did the first trail runs in the “Feilnbach Mountains” I already thought about connecting different summits within one route. The routes became longer and longer and the summits more and more. In October 2023 I started to tell my trail running friends from the idea, to connect all summits within the Feilnbach Mountains in a single route. Some of my trail friends were quite curious and even might join (partially) on the big day(s). In November 2023 I connected 14 summits, my personal summit record at that time. During the run I had a lot of time to think about future challenges I would like to try. This was the official birth for my new project called “Feilnbach Mountains Ultra Trail” (FMUT). The following project phase shall help to successfully complete the FMUT.

Project Phases:

1. Area Definition
2. Summit Identification and Classification
3. Exploration Runs
4. Route Planning
5. The big day(s)
6. Reflection

1. Area Definition:

In order to clearly define the area of interest I chose to use the main connection streets of the surrounding mountain villages as borders. Figure 1.1 contains the map of the “Feilnbach Mountains” which is also linked in a zoomable version here: https://v.bayern.de/6XPS4. The defined area is highlighted in red. It is basically limited by the connecting streets from Bad Feilnbach to Fischbachau, further to Bayrischzell, then further to Brannenburg and back to Bad Feilnbach. The “Feilnbach Mountains” span an area of 102.72 square kilometres and a perimeter of 55.55 km.

2. Summit identification and classification

The summits are shown in the following map, whereby the names of the summits including its altitude will be displayed when clicking on one of the summit needles. The needles are colour-coded according to their classification which is as follows:

• Green: official summit which is shown in the majority of maps, e.g. in Open Street Map (OSM) and BayernAtlas (BA) including altitude and name
• Blue: unofficial summit which is shown only in certain maps, e.g. only in Open Street Map (OSM) including altitude and name
• Yellow: climbing rock with an unofficial summit on top which is shown only in certain maps, e.g. only in Open Street Map (OSM) including altitude and name
• Red: Prohibited to climb and/or no real summit but rather a wall, e.g. Schwarzwand (info: Schwarzwand is prohibited to climb)