Hut book

Container for the hut book (far left) in a wooden hut on the Bichlberg in Kirchberg an der Pielach , Lower Austria

The hut book serves to shelters hikers and mountain climbers as a book and as a message for the night .

Every visitor to a hut with a hut book is invited to fill in their name, the route taken, route and weather conditions, etc. The mountain rescue service and other mountain rescue services use the hut book as a source of information when it comes to looking for or rescuing missing people. This is one of the reasons why a precise entry in the hut book is always useful for overnight guests in Alpine Club huts . In the hut books of the German Alpine Club , the next hiking or tour destination is therefore compulsorily asked for in a separate column. The hut book has an important function here for emergencies in difficult terrain or in problematic weather.

Often there are also cheerful verses or drawings by the guests.

Tourists who stay overnight at the hut are in some places obliged, in any case generally required, to enter themselves and their companions in the hut book (applies to reporting to the local community in the case of multiple overnight stays ).

Web links

• The mountain hut as a social world - an ethnography
• SAC hut regulations
• DAV hut regulations