Innsbruck via ferrata

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The Innsbrucker Klettersteig is a via ferrata that leads over seven peaks of the Innsbrucker Nordkette in the Karwendel . The Nordkettenbahn offers specific via ferrata tickets during the opening hours of the via ferrata, which is closed in winter. The via ferrata was opened in 1986.

On the saddle tips
The route of the Innsbruck via ferrata between Seegrubenspitze and Frau Hitt-Sattel
Entry at the Hafelekar mountain station

course

The route begins west of the Hafelekarhaus mountain station ( 2269  m above sea level ) of the Nordkettenbahn below the Hafelekarspitze and runs over the Seegrubenspitze ( 2350  m above sea level ), the three chimney tips (eastern chimney tip ( 2435  m above sea level ), middle Kaminspitze ( 2435  m above sea level ), Westliche Kaminspitze ( 2445  m above sea level )), the Kemacher ( 2480  m above sea level ), the Langen Sattel ( 2258  m above sea level ) and the Westliche Sattelspitze ( 2339  m above sea level ) to Frau Hitt or to Frau Hitt-Sattel ( 2235  m above sea level ), from where the Schmidhubersteig leads back to the middle station Seegrube ( 1905  m above sea level ) of the Nordkettenbahn. Alternatively, a descent from the Long Saddle to the Seegrube is possible.

difficulty

In the literature, the walking time is given as up to six hours to Ms. Hitt, the length of the route as two and a half kilometers. The difficulty according to the system of Rother-Verlag, Munich, is consistently KS3-C to KS4-C (moderately difficult to difficult in exposed alpine terrain, according to the Hüsler scale it is K3 / K4).

Literature and map

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Innsbruck (ed.): Innsbruck informs . No. 9 . Innsbruck 1986, p. 9 ( issuu.com ).
  2. ↑ P. Werner, I. Kürschner, Th. Huttenlocher, J. Hemmleb: Klettersteigatlas Alpen , 7th edition, Bergverlag Rother , Munich 2012, p. 67 f.
  3. ↑ Eugen E. Hüsler, Ran ans Eisen , Bruckmann Verlag , 2014, p. 104