The valley at Frachant, where I was staying in the ever good Hotel-Gasthof Alter Wirt, was to see a mild day on March 1st, with most of the lower lying snow on the North facing slopes above Garmisch-Partenkirchen melted. I wanted to have another day on snowshoes, so decided to walk the short distance from Garmisch-Partenkirchen to the valley station of the Hausbergbahn cable car, and catch a ride up to the snows at over 1300m.

That worked well and got me onto the still lying snow around the Hausberg at around 1320m up, saving a walk up on mainly snowless tracks with a not so good view on what was to be a fairly dull day with occasional snow showers higher up. From the Hausbergbahn top station I used same route that I had followed on the 27th February, with maybe a bit less snow near Hausberg, and a bit more as I ascended up past Trögeln Hutte and towards the Kreuz Alm.