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Multi-day route
Long Distance Ski Touring
· Ötztal Alps
Ötztal Ice Giants
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Ascent TaschachfernerPhoto: Michael Pröttel, alpenvereinaktiv Redaktion
On a great ski route circuit, you can connect Taschach, Vernagt, Guslar, and Gepatsch glaciers and also climb three peaks over 3000 meters.
This three-day high mountain ski tour requires very good physical condition, good visibility, and safe avalanche conditions. Since you spend the second night in a winter room, you must be able to assess the glacier situation well. On the Gepatsch glacier, you should travel roped. Technical key points are the partly exposed summit ascent to the Hinterer Brochkogel (II- UIAA) and the steep descent on the last day from the Hintere Ölgrubenspitze.
Author’s recommendation
You should undertake this route before the Gepatsch glacier is disfigured by new lift facilities. Of course, it is still to be hoped that this dreadful project will not be approved (as of 10/2023).
Derived from the technical difficulty and the stamina requirements.
Track types
Safety information
This route should only be undertaken in safe avalanche conditions and (especially on the Gepatsch glacier) good visibility.
Tips and suggestions
Vernagthütte (DAV) 2755 m, open in winter from early March to mid-May, Tel. +43 664 7980757, www.vernagthuette.de
Rauhekopfhütte (DAV) 2731 m, not staffed in winter but winter room with eight beds, www.rauhekopfhuette.at
Roadbook
See the respective stages
Vernagthütte
Fluchtkogel
Rauhekopfhütte
Taschach House
Public transport
Public-transport-friendly
Train & Bus: Take the train via Innsbruck to Imst-Pitzal station and continue with bus 310 to Mittelberg.
Directions
Follow the Inn valley motorway to the turnoff into the Pitztal and then the valley road to Mittelberg.
Parking
Large parking lot at the valley station of the Pitztal glacier ski area
Coordinates
Author’s map recommendations
Alpine Club Map No. 30/2 Ötztal Alps, Weißkugel, 1:25000
Book recommendations for this region:
Recommended maps for this region:
Equipment
Complete glacier ski touring equipment, including rope gear, ice axe, and crampons, plus provisions for the self-catering hut on the second day.
Localization
Derived from the technical difficulty and the stamina requirements.
Weather at the starting point
Statistics
The first stage of this three-day Ötztal glacier ski high tour is facilitated at the start by the use of the Mittelbergbahn.
On day two of this Ötztal glacier ski high tour, the enormous Gepatschferner, the second largest glacier in Austria, is entered.
The steep descent from the Hintere Ölgrubenspitze is the key point of the entire multi-day ski tour on the third day.
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