Via Ferrata at the Waterfall near the Explorer Hotel Ötztal
Approximately 10 minutes by car from the hotel is the parking lot of the Ötztal Local History Museum, where you can leave your car. Grab your gear and head to the start of the via ferrata. To do this, follow the red marked path over a suspension bridge until the start comes into view.
To begin with, you have to climb a C section in the form of a steep wall. Before you reach the next rock step, you have to traverse to the left in the wall. Once you have overcome the next rock step, you have to traverse left again until you reach a clearly visible and covered slab area.
You climb this B/C section of the route diagonally at first and then straight up. Once at the top, you'll find yourself at the junction, where you keep left to climb the variant with the waterfall. To reach the steep wall, you'll traverse an A/B section. Once there, you'll tackle the steep wall with the help of so-called brackets and climb in a zigzag pattern to the rope bridge. This is the crux of the via ferrata and the end of the via ferrata.
The descent follows the signposted descent path, which will take you back to your car.