Piz da las Coluonnas

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Piz da las Coluonnas
Lej da las Culuonnas on the Julier Pass, behind it the Piz da las Coluonnas and on the left the Piz Polaschin

Lej da las Culuonnas on the Julier Pass , behind it the Piz da las Coluonnas and on the left the Piz Polashin

height 2802  m above sea level M.
location Canton of Graubünden , Switzerland
Mountains Albula Alps
Dominance 0.12 km →  Piz Lagrev
Notch height 17 m ↓  ridge between Piz da las Coluonnas and Piz Lagrev
Coordinates 775599  /  148 161 coordinates: 46 ° 27 '42 "  N , 9 ° 43' 29"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred seventy-five thousand five hundred and ninety-nine  /  one hundred forty-eight thousand one hundred sixty-one
Piz da las Coluonnas (Canton of Graubünden)
Piz da las Coluonnas
Piz da las Coluonnas and Julierpass to the left, taken from the Bivio ski area

Piz da las Coluonnas and Julierpass to the left, taken from the Bivio ski area

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The Piz da las Coluonnas (from the Rhaeto-Romanic culuonna for 'column') is a mountain south of the Julier Pass in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland with a height of 2802  m above sea level. M. In the SAC club guides, point 2961 southeast of point 2802 is referred to as Piz da las Coluonnas. The mountain takes its name from the fragments of a Roman column on the top of the Julier Pass at the foot of the mountain.

Location and surroundings

Spherical panorama from point 2961 southeast of Piz da las Coluonnas.
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The Piz da las Coluonnas belongs to the Piz Lagrev group, a subgroup of the Albula Alps . The municipal boundary between Surses and Silvaplana runs 100 m east of the summit, the summit itself is located in the municipality of Surses.

The neighboring peaks include the Piz d'Emmat Dadora , the Piz Lagrev and the Piz Polashin . In the north of the mountain is the Julier Pass, in the south the Fuorcla Lagrev connects the massif with the Piz Lagrev. At the foot of the mountain there are three lakes, Lej da las Culuonnas in the north, Leg Grevasalvas in the south-west and Lej Lagrev in the south-east.

The farthest visible point ( 47 ° 0 '17.6 "  N , 9 ° 0' 27.9"  O ) from Piz da las Coluonnas is the Neuenschwander ridge in Glärnisch in Glarus and 81.4 km.

The plateau on the massif used to be glaciated. Today there is only one small glacier to the south of the massif, the Vadret Lagrev .

The valley location and frequent starting point is the Julier Pass.

Routes to the summit

The following describes the routes up to P. 2961, southeast of the actual Piz da las Coluonnas.

Summer routes

From the Julier Pass

  • Starting point: Julier Pass ( 2284  m )
  • Difficulty: L
  • Time required: 2½ hours

Over the south ridge

  • Starting point: Chamanna dal Stradin on Julierstrasse ( 2161  m )
  • Via: Fuorcla Lagrev ( 2863  m )
  • Difficulty: L
  • Time required: 3 hours

Over the northwest ridge

  • Starting point: La Veduta ( 2233  m ) on the Julier Pass road
  • Via: Via the summit P. 2449, Leg Grevasalvas ( 2390  m ), P. 2633, P. 2802
  • Difficulty: L
  • Time required: 2-2½ hours

Over the north pillar

  • Starting point: Julier Pass ( 2284  m )
  • Difficulty: S
  • Time required: 4–5 hours

Winter routes

Steep step in one of the couloirs on the north flank

From La Veduta

  • Starting point: La Veduta ( 2233  m ) on the Julier Pass road
  • Via: Via the summit P. 2449, Leg Grevasalvas ( 2390  m ), P. 2633, P. 2802
  • Exposures: N, W, S
  • Difficulty: WS +
  • Time required: 2½ hours

Descent over the northern flank to Alp Güglia

Impressive steep descents through the two north gullies, which, however, require safe conditions (30–35 ° to 350 m, 2 steep steps up to 40 °). The downhill routes are clearly visible from the Julierpassstrasse. Only for experienced alpine ski tourists.

  • Destination: Julier Pass ( 2284  m )
  • Exposures: N
  • Difficulty: S

panorama

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360 ° panorama from point 2961 southeast of Piz da las Coluonnas

gallery

  • View through the north couloir down to the Julier Pass with the Julier Theater .

  • Aerial view with Piz da las Coluonnas (below) and Piz Lagrev (center) on a picture from 1925.

  • Aerial view with Piz da las Coluonnas (bottom right) and Piz Julier (center) on a picture from 1954.

literature

  • Eugen Wenzel, Paul Gross: club guide, Bündner Alps . Albula. 2nd Edition. tape VI . Verlag des SAC, 1980, ISBN 3-85902-012-9 , p. 40-42 .
  • Vital Eggenberger: Ski tours Graubünden South . Verlag des SAC, 2010, ISBN 978-3-85902-301-7 , pp. 149-151 .
  • National map of Switzerland, sheet 1256 Bivio, 1: 25,000, Federal Office of Topography, 2015 edition.

Web links

Commons : Piz da las Coluonnas  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. 79 .
  2. ↑ Calculated 360 ° panorama ( U. Deuschle ; information ) from Piz da las Coluonnas