The Italian Alps
59: Rifugio Benevolo (Gran Paradiso)
60: Rifugio F. Chabod (Gran Paradiso)
61: Rifugio Vittorio Emanuele (Gran Paradiso)
62: Rifugio Vittorio Sella (Gran Paradiso)
63: Rifugio Elisabetta (Mont Blanc Range)
64: Rifugio Bonatti (Mont Blanc Range)
65: Rifugio Luigi Brasca (Bregaglia Alps)
66: Rifugio A. Omio (Bregaglia Alps)
67: Rifugio C. Ponti (Bregaglia Alps)
68: Rifugio Longoni (Bernina Alps)
69: Rifugio Larcher (Ortler Alps)
70: Rifugio Mandrone (Adamello Group)
71: Rifugio Tuckett (Brenta Dolomites)
72: Rifugio Brentei (Brenta Dolomites)
73: Rifugio Puez (Dolomites – Puez-Odle Group)
74: Rifugio Vicenza (Dolomites – Sassolungo Group)
75: Rifugio Viel del Pan (Dolomites – Marmolada Group)
76: Rifugio Pian di Cengia (Sexten Dolomites)
77: Rifugio Locatelli (Sexten Dolomites)
78: Rifugio Vandelli (Dolomites – Sorapiss Group)
The Austrian Alps
79: Saarbrücker Hut (Silvretta Alps)
80: Wiesbadner Hut (Silvretta Alps)
81: Täschach Haus (Ötztal Alps)
82: Braunschweiger Hut (Ötztal Alps)
83: Innsbrucker Hut (Stubai Alps)
84: Bremer Hut (Stubai Alps)
85: Franz Senn Hut (Stubai Alps)
86: Starkenburger Hut (Stubai Alps)
87: Berliner Hut (Zillertal Alps)
88: Plauener Hut (Zillertal Alps)
89: Grutten Hut (Kaisergebirge)
90: Brechhornhaus (Kitzbüheler Alps)
91: Bochumer Hut (Kitzbüheler Alps)
92: Schönleiten Hut (Kitzbüheler Alps)
93: Bürgl Hut (Kitzbüheler Alps)
94: Statzerhaus (Salzburger Schiefer Alps)
95: Salzburger Hut (Glockner Group)
96: Kals-Matreier-Törlhaus (Granatspitz Group)
97: Nassfeldhaus (Carnic Alps)
98: Julius-Seitner Hut (Türnitzer Alps)
The Julian Alps
99: Triglav Lakes Hut (Julian Alps)
100: Bogatinom Hut (Julian Alps)
APPENDIX A Useful Addresses
APPENDIX B Suggested Equipment List
APPENDIX C Glossary
APPENDIX D Bibliography
The Mont Blanc range seen across Lac Léman (photo: Jonathan Williams)
The Ticino has a range of outstanding huts catering for walkers in a quiet part of the Alps (photo: Jonathan Williams)
PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION
The opportunity to produce a new edition of this guide has enabled me to update the previous edition, replace a handful of routes and introduce some new huts. That is not to suggest that those no longer included were lacking in interest – either the huts or their routes of approach – but were sacrificed to give a slightly better balance to the collection. Once again I have been encouraged by users of previous editions of the book who wrote to share their experiences and suggest other routes to include. They have my thanks, as do the hut guardians and members of various Alpine Clubs who keep the huts maintained and waymark many of the trails. I’m grateful as ever to Switzerland Tourism for generous assistance during research, to Jonathan Williams and his team at Cicerone Press for their continued support and encouragement, and to my wife who makes it all worthwhile.
Kev Reynolds
INTRODUCTION
The Mont Blanc massif seen from the Col d’Anterne. The Brévent is in the foreground (photo: Jonathan Williams)
Extending in a huge arc of more than 1000km (620 miles) from the Mediterranean coast near Nice to the low, wooded foothills outside Vienna, the Alps display the full gamut of mountain landscape features. With such a varied panoply of dramatic and spectacular scenery, there’s nothing remotely comparable anywhere else in Europe – maybe in the World – and for two centuries and more walkers, mountaineers and general tourists have been flocking there in increasing numbers, and coming away enriched.
Walking is unquestionably the best method of exploring, and it is the mountain walker for whom journeys in the Alps reveal some of the finest views, the greatest contrasts. This book then is a guide to just 100 walks out of the many thousands possible, with a geographical span that ranges from the Maritime Alps of southern France to the Julians of Slovenia, from Italy’s Gran Paradiso to the little-known Türnitzer
