Medelserhütte

The Medelserhütte, Rhaeto-Romanic Camona da Medel, is located at 2524 m on the Fuorcla da Lavaz high above Curaglia in Val Medel, right at the transition from Val Plattas to Val Lavaz. The hut of the Swiss Alpine Club, Uto section, offers 55 sleeping places and a simple winter room with 10 places and is manned in summer from around mid-June to mid-October and in winter during the ski touring season from mid-February to around the end of April. Thanks to its panoramic location with views of the Medelser Glacier, the Piz Medel and the Greina plateau, it is an important base for high-altitude tours, ski tours and multi-day hikes such as the Kronenwanderung or the Greina Alta Trekking. Half-board and simple, preferably regional dishes are offered during the serviced period; organic grain from Graubünden is often used for cooking, and a home-made cake buffet is part of the hut's character. The shortest approach starts in Curaglia and takes around three and a half hours through Val Plattas to the hut; other approaches are possible from Pardatsch in Val Plattas or from Fuorns and Tenigerbad. The Medelserhütte is suitable for alpine hikers and mountaineers in summer and for ski tourers and snowshoe hikers in winter; current conditions, any closures and the weather forecast should be checked carefully before each tour. First built in 1910 as a small wooden hut, the hut was replaced by a stone building in 1934 and extended and modernized in 1984, 2006 and most recently in 2023, while deliberately retaining the original, simple character of the hut.