Hohe Krippenstein

The Hohe Krippenstein is a 2,108 m high, conspicuous post mountain on the northern edge of the Dachstein mountain in Upper Austria.

It has the condition of a twofold summit: the Hoch Krippenstein is 500 m a long way from a greatly harsh summit of 2,034 m upstream, which passes on a shaft and the charged Pioneer Cross.

Not far from the essential summit is a mountain place of supplication.

The limestone of Krippenstein rises above Lake Hallstatt 508 m, ie an entirety of 1600 m over the lake.

It was the underlying two-thousander, which was opened here by a connection auto - as focus station of Obertraun to the Dachsteinseilbahn provoking the south bit of the massif.