Highest hut
| Highest hut - Rifugio Canziani CAI refuge category C |
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 Highest hut on Grünsee |
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| location | Head of the Ultental valley ; South Tyrol, Italy; Valley location: Ulten | |
| Mountain range | Ortler Alps | |
| Geographical location: | 46 ° 28 '56.8 " N , 10 ° 47' 56.9" E | |
| Altitude | 2560 m slm | |
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| builder | DÖAV section Frankfurt-Höchst | |
| owner | CAI section Milan | |
| Built | 1909 | |
| Construction type | Refuge | |
| Usual opening times | Mid-June to the end of October | |
| accommodation | 65 beds, 0 camps | |
| Winter room | 4 beds | |
| Web link | Website of the Höchst Hut | |
| Hut directory | ÖAV DAV | |
The Höchst Hut ( Italian Rifugio Canziani ) - also Grünseehütte - is a refuge in the Ortler Alps in South Tyrol .
Location and surroundings
The Höchst hut is located at 2560 m above sea level at the upper end of the Ulten Valley right next to the Grünsee . The closest village is St. Gertraud , which belongs to the municipality of Ulten .
The normal route leads from the hut to the Hinteren Eggenspitze in the west . To the northwest you get to the Zufrittspitze and further into the Martell valley . On the way to the south you can about the Blacker yoke the Trentino reach.
history
The hut was built in 1909 by the DuÖAV section Höchst am Main . After during the First World War had been destroyed, she was from the CAI -Sektion Milan rebuilt and named after the ski mountaineers Umberto Canziani. Due to the damming of the Grünsee in the 1950s, the hut had to be moved to a slightly higher location.
Approach
- Weißbrunn in Ultental in 1.5 hours
Glacier tours
- Zufrittspitze (3,439 m) in 3 hours
- Lorchenspitz (3,347 m) in 2.5 hours
- Hintere Eggenspitze (3,443 m) in 3 hours
Web links
- Highest hut in the historical alpine archive of the alpine clubs in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol (temporarily offline)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Kammerer: Refuge huts in South Tyrol . Tappeiner, Lana 2008, ISBN 978-88-7073-422-5 , pp. 31 .
- ↑ The Höchsterhütte am Grünsee - hikes and mountain tours. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .