Innsbruck via ferrata
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.
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
- Paul Werner, Iris Kürschner, Thomas Huttenlocher, Jochen Hemmleb: Klettersteigatlas Alpen , 7th edition, Bergverlag Rother , Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7633-8087-9
- Alpine Club Map 1: 50,000, sheet 31/5, Innsbruck
- Austrian map 1: 50,000, sheet 2223
- Freytag & Berndt hiking map 1: 50,000, sheet WK 322
Web links
- The Innsbruck via ferrata; Opening times and via ferrata tickets
- Tour description of the via ferrata
Individual evidence
- ^ City of Innsbruck (ed.): Innsbruck informs . No. 9 . Innsbruck 1986, p. 9 ( issuu.com ).
- ↑ P. Werner, I. Kürschner, Th. Huttenlocher, J. Hemmleb: Klettersteigatlas Alpen , 7th edition, Bergverlag Rother , Munich 2012, p. 67 f.
- ↑ Eugen E. Hüsler, Ran ans Eisen , Bruckmann Verlag , 2014, p. 104