Rifugio Mandrone

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Rifugio "Città di Trento" al Mandrone
SAT refuge  category  D
The Mandrone Hut on the Cima Presena

The Mandrone Hut on the Cima Presena

location Laghi del Mandron Val Genova; Trentino , Italy ; Valley location:  Spiazzo
Mountain range Adamello group
Geographical location: 46 ° 12 '9.2 "  N , 10 ° 34' 16.1"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 12 '9.2 "  N , 10 ° 34' 16.1"  E
Altitude 2442  m slm
Rifugio Mandrone (Trentino-South Tyrol)
Rifugio Mandrone
owner SAT
Built 1953-1959
Construction type Refuge
Usual opening times June 20th to September 20th
accommodation 100 beds, 0  camps
Winter room 6 bedsdep1

The Rifugio "Città di Trento" al Mandrone or just Rifugio Mandrone (also Rifugio Mandron ; German Mandronehütte or Mandronhütte ) is an alpine refuge in the Italian province of Trento in the Adamello group . It is located at an altitude of 2442  m slm within the municipality of Spiazzo and belongs to the autonomous CAI - SAT section . The hut is usually open from June 20th to September 20th. It offers sleeping places for 100 mountaineers and has a winter room for six people.

location

The Rifugio Mandrone is located in the Adamello-Brenta Nature Park on the edge of the so-called Conca Mandron , a partly grass-covered hollow at the end of the valley of the Val di Genova, which begins at Carisolo and then runs in a westerly direction. Opposite the hut in a south-westerly direction is the Mandrone Glacier. With 78.5 ha (2013) it is the largest glacier in Italy, which retreated by 243 m from 1984 to 2014, which corresponds to a shrinkage of around 8 m per year. The Sarca di Genova, one of the three source rivers of the Sarca , also has its source at the Mandrone Glacier . In the immediate vicinity of the Rifugio there are also some mountain lakes, such as Lago Scuro and Lago Mandrone, as well as a small chapel.

View of the Mandrone glacier from the Rifugio Mandrone (2010)

history

The Mandronehütte was inaugurated by the SAT in 1959 after six years of construction. It replaced the Leipzigerhütte, built in 1878 by the DÖAV - Leipzig section , which today serves as the Adamello " Julius Payer " study hut ( Italian: Centro studi Adamello "Julius Payer" ) and the Museum of Science - MUSE in Trient , just a few hundred meters below the Rifugio Mandrone is operated. In addition to this first hut, the DÖAV section Leipzig built a second refuge in 1894, the Mandrone hut, which was destroyed by the Italian artillery in 1916 during the First World War and the ruins of which can still be seen today. During the Mountain War from 1915 to 1918 the area was an immediate frontline area, the area west of the Rifugio Mandrone was no man's land , while the ridge west of it was held by the Italians and the area east of the refuge by the Austro-Hungarian army . After the war, the Leipzigerhütte, which had not been destroyed, passed into the possession of the SAT in 1921, which in turn ceded it to the CAI section Cremona . Thanks to a donation campaign launched in 1953 by the then mayor of Trento, Nilo Piccoli, the new and larger Rifugio “Città di Trento” al Mandrone was finally built.

Accesses

  • From Malga Bédole, 1558 m, in Val di Genova ⊙ on path 212 in 2 hours 45 minutes
  • From Passo Preséna, 2997 m (access by cable car from Tonale Pass ) ⊙ on path 209 in 1 hour 15 minutes

Neighboring huts and crossings

literature

  • Achille Gadler, Mario Corradini: Rifugi e bivacchi nel Trentino. Panorama, Trento 2003, ISBN 978-88-87118-40-7 .
  • Società degli Alpinisti Tridentini - Sezione del CAI - Commissione Sentieri: … per sentieri e luoghi. Sui monti del Trentino. 5 Presanella, Adamello, Dolomiti di Brenta. Euroedit, Trento 2017, ISBN 978-88-941381-3-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Società degli Alpinisti Tridentini - Sezione del CAI - Commissione Sentieri: … per sentieri e luoghi. Sui monti del Trentino. 5 Presanella, Adamello, Dolomiti di Brenta. P. 42
  2. ↑ Centro studi Adamello “Julius Payer” (in Italian) accessed on November 14, 2017
  3. ^ Società degli Alpinisti Tridentini - Sezione del CAI - Commissione Sentieri: … per sentieri e luoghi. Sui monti del Trentino. 5 Presanella, Adamello, Dolomiti di Brenta. Pp. 321-322
  4. ^ Notices from the Leipzig Section of the DAV No. 1/2011 ( PDF ) pp. 26–28