The hike starts at the valley station of the Vellau chairlift in Mitterplars. You follow the Burgweg path # 20 until you reach the Caffee Conrad. Now you continue walking until you reach the Blumenthalerhof. There begins the paved Ochsentodweg path # 29, which leads us slightly uphill to Thurnstein Castle and further along the asphalt road to St. Peter to Castle Tirol.Return journey: steep descent via Brunnenburg or via Dorf Tirol (Gnaidweg) to Gratsch and via the Algunder Waalweg back to the starting point.