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· Ötztal Alps
Crossing from Vernagthütte to Rauhekopfhütte
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VernagthüttePhoto: Herbert Bardorf, DAV Sektion Würzburg
Author’s recommendation
Derived from the technical difficulty and the stamina requirements.
Track types
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The Vernagt and Gepatschferner glaciers have no technical difficulties, but the danger of crevasses is always present.
To avoid losing orientation in fog, you should download a GPS track along with a map to your mobile phone, which is very easy with the alpenvereinaktiv.com app. This track then serves as orientation aid, but the route on a glacier (e.g. due to changes in crevasse patterns) can change at any time.
Tips and suggestions
https://dav-frankfurtmain.de/huetten-und-wege/rauhekopfhuette
Roadbook
From Vernagthütte, first follow the distinctive lateral moraine of the (formerly Vernagtferner) glacier to the northwest. After passing the left rising flanks of the Hintergrasl peaks, do not follow the tracks to the right towards Wildspitze, but stay left to soon reach the western part of the Große Vernagtferner. Here you rope up. Then always head west, initially quite flat and only steepening towards the end to reach the 3241 m high Gepantschjoch.
From there, first go west, then southwest over a side arm down to the main tongue of the Gepatschferner. This is crossed at about 2900 m height heading west. On the other side, you reach the "rock island" of the Große and Kleine Rauhekopf, where you finally turn right to descend slightly northwards over the Kleine Rauhekopf to the Rauhekopfhütte.
Rauhekopfhütte
Public transport
Public-transport-friendly
By train to Bhf Ötztal and then by bus (change in Sölden) to Vent.Directions
Via the Inntal motorway to the beginning of the Ötztal valley and through Sölden to Vent. Then on to the Rofenhöfe.Parking
Small parking lot in front of the Rofenhöfe. Otherwise, hut parking lot at the chairlift in Vent.Coordinates
Book recommendation by the author
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Equipment
Complete glacier equipment.Localization
Derived from the technical difficulty and the stamina requirements.
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