Piz Mez

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Piz Mez
Piz Mez, recorded by radons

Piz Mez, recorded by radons

height 2718.1  m above sea level M.
location Canton of Graubünden , Switzerland
Mountains Oberhalbsteiner Alps
Dominance 1.81 km →  Murter
Notch height 72 m ↓  Murter ridge
Coordinates 760561  /  155 761 coordinates: 46 ° 32 '2 "  N , 9 ° 31' 54"  O ; CH1903:  760561  /  one hundred fifty-five thousand seven hundred sixty-one
Piz Mez (Canton of Graubünden)
Piz Mez
Normal way About radons
particularities Popular ski mountain
Summit cross on the Piz Mez

Summit cross on the Piz Mez

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The Piz Mez ( Rhaeto-Romanic in the idiom Surmiran for "middle peak " from the Latin medius ) is a mountain south of the Savognin ski area in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland with a height of 2718.1  m . Thanks to its proximity to the ski area and the long and wide north slope with a regular slope, it is a popular ski mountain. He is often wrongly referred to as Murter . Murter ( Rhaeto-Romanic in the Idiom Surmiran for "alpine pasture", from the Latin mortarium " mortar , high alpine pasture, especially sheep pasture") is the ridge that separates the Val Curtegns from the Val Schmorras , and the northern corner of which is the Piz Mez.

Location and surroundings

The Piz Mez belongs to the Piz Grisch group , a sub -group of the Oberhalbsteiner Alps . It lies entirely within the municipality of Surses .

The neighboring peaks include the Piz Arlos , the Piz Arblatsch , the Piz Forbesch , the Piz Cagniel , the Murter , the Piz Alv , the Piz Settember , the Sur Carungas , the Piz Cartas and the Piz Martegnas .

The most distant visible peak from Piz Mez is the 85.7 km distant Galenstock ( 3586  m , Urner Alps ), which is located north of the Furka Pass on the border of the cantons of Uri and Valais .

The Savognin ski area is located north of Piz Mez.

Valley locations are Riom, Parsonz and Savognin. A common starting point is radon.

Routes to the summit

Summer routes

Via Alp Curtegns

  • Starting point: Radons ( 1866  m )
  • Difficulty: EB
  • Time required: 2½ hours

About Alp Nova

  • Starting point: Radons ( 1866  m )
  • Difficulty: EB
  • Time required: 2½ hours

winter

  • Starting point: Radons ( 1866  m )
  • Via: Alp Curtegns, P. 2106, north-east ridge or east flank
  • Exposures: NE
  • Difficulty: L
  • Time required: 2½ hours
  • Descent along the ascent track or from the summit over the northern slope into the Nurclanga hollow

panorama

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360 ° panorama from Piz Mez

gallery

literature

  • Manfred Hunziker: Club Guide, Bündner Alpen, Volume 3 (obverse) 1st edition. Verlag des SAC, 1994, ISBN 3-85902-140-0 , pp. 274-275.
  • Georg Calonder: Alpine Skitouren, Volume 2 (Graubünden) 4th edition. Verlag des SAC, 1992, ISBN 3-85902-060-9 , p. 163.
  • Vital Eggenberger: Ski tours Graubünden South . Verlag des SAC, 2010, ISBN 978-3-85902-301-7 , pp. 106 .

Web links

Commons : Piz Mez  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrea Schorta: How the mountain got its name . Small Rhaetian name book with two and a half thousand geographical names of Graubünden. Terra Grischuna Verlag, Chur and Bottmingen / Basel 1988, ISBN 3-7298-1047-2 , p. 104 .
  2. ↑ Andrea Schorta: How the mountain got its name . Small Rhaetian name book with two and a half thousand geographical names of Graubünden. Terra Grischuna Verlag, Chur and Bottmingen / Basel 1988, ISBN 3-7298-1047-2 , p. 108 .
  3. ↑ Calculated 360 ° panorama ( U. Deuschle ; information ) from Piz Mez