Weather peaks

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Weather peaks
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.

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.

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 Coordinates: 47 ° 24 '5 "  N , 10 ° 58' 14"  E
Wetterspitzen (Bavaria)
Weather peaks
Normal way From the Zugspitzplatt
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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) .

f1Georeferencing 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 .