High wheel (Silvretta)

High wheel
View from the south of the Hohe Rad
height	2934  m above sea level A.
location	Vorarlberg and Tyrol , Austria
Mountains	Silvretta
Dominance	2.5 km →  Madlenerspitze
Notch height	282 m ↓  saddle
Coordinates	46 ° 53 '32 "  N , 10 ° 6' 42"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 53 '32 "  N , 10 ° 6' 42"  E
Summit with Silvretta reservoir (bottom left)

The high wheel is 2934  m above sea level. A. high mountain in the Silvretta group on the border between Vorarlberg and Tyrol . The mountain lies on the banks of the Silvretta reservoir near Bielerhöhe (2,035 m).

The summit can be reached from the Bielerhöhe either through the Ochsental or the Bieltal . On Radsattel ( 2652  m ) meet both increases, the summit slope is easily exposed and requires surefootedness . There is also a shorter climb from the north, which branches off a little below the Bielerdamm from the path through the Bieltal to the south (there is a signpost), winds steeply over the north ridge of the Hohen Rad and at the Radschulter ( 2697 m. Above sea ​​level ) meets the path coming from the saddle.

The Radsee ( 2477 m above sea level ) is embedded in a high trough between the summit and the Bieltal .

literature

• Johannes Frischauf :  The high wheel 2912 m. In:  Journal of the German Alpine Association / Journal of the German and (the) Austrian Alpine Association , year 1888, (Volume XIX), pp. 238–242. (Online at ANNO ). .

Web links

Commons : High Wheel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alpine Club Map No. 26 "Silvrettagruppe" (ski tour map), 9th edition 2013, ISBN 978-3-928777-37-7 .