Alpine Walking Skills
The Reichen Group Hut-to-Hut Rucksack Route
Stage 1 Mayrhofen to Plauener Hut
Excursion 1.1 Ascent of Reichen Spitze (3303m)
Stage 2 Plauener Hut to Birnlucken Hut
Stage 3 Birnlucken Hut to Warnsdorfer Hut
Stage 4 Warnsdorfer Hut to Krimmler Tauern Haus
Stage 5 Krimmler Tauern Haus to Zittauer Hut
Stage 6 Zittauer Hut to Richter Hut
Stage 7A Richter Hut to Plauener Hut via the Zillerplatten Scharte
Stage 7B Richter Hut to Plauener Hut via the Gams Scharte
THE VENEDIGER GROUP
Introduction and Topography
The Venediger Group Hut-to-Hut Rucksack Route
Stage 1 Matrei in Ost Tyrol to Essener Rostocker Hut
Stage 2 Essener Rostocker Hut to Johannis Hut via the Turmljoch.
Stage 3 Johannis Hut to the Bonn Matreier Hut via the Zopat Scharte and Eissee Hut
Stage 4 Bonn Matreier Hut to Badener Hut via the Galten Scharte
Stage 5 Badener Hut to Neue Prager Hut via the Loebbentorl 94
Excursion from Neuer Prager Hut
Stage 5A Badener Hut to Venediger Haus (alternative bad weather route)
Stage 6 Neue Prager Hut to Sankt Poltener Hut
Stage 7 Sankt Poltener Hut to Matreier Tauern Haus
The Venediger Glacier Tour
Stage 1 Mayrhofen to Warnsdorfer Hut
Stage 2 Warnsdorfer Hut to Essener Rostocker Hut via the Gams Spitzl and Mauertorl
Excursions from the Essener Rostocker Hut
Stages 3–6 See Venediger Rucksack Route stages 2–5
Stage 7 Neue Prager Hut to Kursinger Hut via the Gross Venediger
Excursion from Kursinger Hut
Stage 8 Kursinger Hut to Warnsdorfer Hut via the Obersulzbach Kees glacier and Gams Spitzl
THE GROSS GLOCKNER GROUP
Introduction and Topography
The Glockner Group Hut-to-Hut Rucksack Route
Stage 1 Lucknerhaus to Studl Hut
Excursions from the Studl Hut
Stage 2 Studl Hut to Salm Hut via the Pfort Scharte
Stage 3 Salm Hut to Glockner Haus
Stage 4 Glockner Haus to Fusch via the Phandl Scharte
Stage 5 Fusch to Gleiwitzer Hut
Stage 6 Gleiwitzer Hut to Heinrich Schwaiger Haus
Excursions from Heinrich Schwaiger Haus
Stage 6A Gleiwitzer Hut to Kaprun
Stage 7 Heinrich Schwaiger to Rudolfs Hut/Berg Hotel
Excursions from Rudolfs Hut
Stage 8 Rudolfs Hut to Sudetendeutsche Hut via the Kalser Tauern and Gradetz Sattel
Excursion from the Sudetendeutsche Hut
Stage 8A Rudolfs Hut to Kalser Tauern Haus
Stage 9 Sudetendeutsche Hut to Matrei in Ost Tyrol
HUT DIRECTORY
APPENDIX A Useful Contacts
APPENDIX B German–English Glossary
APPENDIX C Further Reading
APPENDIX D Across the Hohe Tauern National Park
Looking back from the Gross Glockner across the Klein Glockner toward Erzherzog Johann Hut (Glockner Rucksack Route, Stage 1 Excursion)
Negotiating car sized boulders above the Eissee (Reichen Group Stage 7)
INTRODUCTION
On the Sonnblick Kees glacier (Glockner Rucksack Route, Stage 7 Excursion)
The Hohe Tauern National Park is the largest national park not only in Austria and the Eastern Alps but the whole of continental Europe, comprising an area of 1800km2. Within Austria it embraces the provinces of Tyrol, Salzburg and Karnten (Carinthia). Not surprisingly the national park’s main point of focus is the Gross Glockner, the highest mountain in Austria, closely followed by the Gross Venediger, the fourth highest mountain and one which also has the distinction of having the highest number of connected glaciers in Austria. To the west, the Hohe Tauern merges with the Reichen Group to encompass the largest concentration of 3000m peaks in the Eastern Alps. The Hohe Tauern National Park is now a World Heritage Area, ranking alongside Yosemite, Serengeti, the Galapagos Islands and Mount Everest.
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