Abstract This field trip leads from Munich through the nappe stack of the Northern Alps. The folded Molasse zone, which clearly reacted to the tectonic events in the alpine collision zone. The Flysch zone covers the underfilled deep sea basin along the Cretaceous pre-collisional active margin. The Helvetic nappes carry Cretaceous to Paleogene sediments that show strong facies differentiation due to an increasingly unstable European platform. These will be visited in two isolated windows. A cross section through a good part of the Northern Calcareous Alps along the Valepp Valley will give insight into the structure of the fold-and-thrust belt and the pre- and post-Gosau phase deformation. Sedimentological response to Late Cretaceous geodynamic processes will, finally, be studied in the famous Muttekopf area and its spectacular outcrops