Weather peaks
Weather peaks | ||
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The weather peaks as part of the platform framing. On the left the Wetterwandeck , on the right of the center of the picture the Eastern Wetterspitze, on the right the distinctive Mittlere Wetterspitze and on the right edge of the picture the Northern Wetterspitze. |
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height | 2750 m | |
location | On the state border between Austria (state of Tyrol ) and Germany (state of Bavaria ) | |
Mountains | Northern Limestone Alps ( Wetterstein Mountains ) | |
Dominance | 0.47 km → Schneefernerkopf | |
Notch height | 61 m ↓ Scharte to the Schneefernerkopf | |
Coordinates | 47 ° 24 '5 " N , 10 ° 58' 14" E | |
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Normal way | From the Zugspitzplatt |
Wetterspitze is the name of three rock spikes protruding from the mountain ridge in the Wetterstein Mountains in the central eastern Alps . They are located two kilometers as the crow flies southwest of the Zugspitze , on the state border between Austria (state of Tyrol ) and Germany (state of Bavaria ). The weather peaks form the southwestern edge of the Zugspitzplatt ; to the east below is the ski area on the Schneeferner with the snowernerhaus research station .
A distinction is made between the
- Northern Wetterspitze (2746 meters) ⊙ ,
- Southern (Middle) Wetterspitze (2746 meters) ⊙ and the
- Eastern Weather Peak (2668 meters) ⊙ .
Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap
base
A possible base for climbing the Wetterspitzen is the SonnAlpin restaurant (2600 meters) on the Zugspitzplatt, the terminus of the Bavarian Zugspitzbahn .
Easiest routes
From the Zugspitzplatt
- with, according to literature, easy climbing in UIAA grade II in half an hour on the northern weather tip .
- in two hours (UIAA II) to the mean weather peak ,
- in half an hour without difficulty (UIAA I) to the eastern weather tip
There are also various climbing routes to UIAA V west of Ehrwald .
Literature and map
- Stephan Beulke: Wetterstein. A guide for valleys, huts and mountains (= Alpine Club Guide . Series: Northern Limestone Alps ). Written according to the guidelines of the UIAA. 4th, unchanged edition. Bergverlag Rother, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7633-1119-X .
- Alpine Club Map 1: 25,000, sheet 4/2, Wetterstein and Mieminger Mountains - center. 2007, ISBN 978-3-928777-20-9 .