Huetstock

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Huetstock
Aerial view of the Huetstock in October 2012: on the left the Huetstock, on the right the red sand nollen

Aerial view of the Huetstock in October 2012:
on the left the Huetstock, on the right the red sand nollen

height 2676  m above sea level M.
location Canton border Nidwalden / Obwalden , Switzerland
Mountains Uri Alps
Dominance 1.16 km →  Hanghorn
Notch height 230 m ↓  unnamed notch
Coordinates 668 158  /  184858 coordinates: 46 ° 48 '41 "  N , 8 ° 19' 54"  O ; CH1903:  668 158  /  184858
Huetstock (Uri Alps)
Huetstock

The Huetstock or Wild Geissberg is a 2676  m above sea level. M. high mountain between the Melchtal and the Engelbergertal in Switzerland . It is located in the Uri Alps on the canton border between Obwalden and Nidwalden .

Surroundings

Neighboring mountains are the Nünalphorn and the Rotsandnollen , which with the Huetstock belong to the subgroup of the Eastern Melchtal Alps , which rise between the Melchaa and the Engelberger Aa . On the other hand, they are also counted among the Unterwaldner Voralpen and thus to the Lucerne and Unterwaldner Voralpen (subsection 14.III of the SOIUSA classification).

View of Flüeli-Ranft, in the background the Melchtal Mountains, from left to right : Widderfeld Stock , Nünalphorn , Huetstock and Barglen

Together with the Widderfeld Stock , the Nünalphorn and the Barglen , the Huetstock forms the panorama of the Melchtalerberge , as can be seen from the canton capital Sarnen and from Flüeli-Ranft .

fauna

A colony of ibex lives on the Huetstock . The stock was just over 150 in each of the years 2009 to 2011 and then fell. In 2013 and 2014 it was around 90 each. The Huetstock area is protected as one of the 41 federal hunting areas.

Web links

Commons : Huetstock  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ernst Höhne: Knaur's Lexicon for Mountain Friends / The Alps between Matterhorn and Lake Constance . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-426-26223-1 , p. 293 ff. & 181 .
  2. ^ Federal hunting statistics of the Federal Office for the Environment FOEN , selection: protected mammals and birds, ibex, colonies, type of data: population, area: Huetstock, figures; Retrieved April 22, 2016
  3. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: List of hunting banned areas , information page of the Federal Office for the Environment FOEN@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bafu.admin.ch