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Any decent touring (particularly overnights hut trips) around Innsbruck? Have car
TIA
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Thanks, went through the three pages but didn't see anything relevant
Looking for something like Cosmiques or the Italian rifugios, but in that area - anywhere drivable from Innsbruck
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Load of places listed here as a starting point, but not sure which area is Innsbruck!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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There’s huts with multi day tours possible in Stubai, Oetztal areas both close to Innsbruck, doable with public transport from the city. Bit further west there’s Silvretta. Over the Brenner and turn R you’ve got Ortler. Loads of fun to be had.
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Get your map out! None of them are really Innsbruck but, with the exception of East Tirol, all these areas are around 1-1.5hr drive. Stubai and the Karwendel are probably closest (Nordkette sits on the Karwendel, to the north of the city up to Germany).
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The ones on the second link are closer to the city, though some are piste tours, which probably isn't what you're looking for. Plenty of ideas there though.
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cheers @Inboard I'll have a look at those
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| moseyp wrote: |
Thanks, went through the three pages but didn't see anything relevant
Looking for something like Cosmiques or the Italian rifugios, but in that area - anywhere drivable from Innsbruck |
There won't be anything in that or my past season threads (you would find more day touring info in the past thread though) because the only overnight/hut-to-hut touring I do around IBK is from a friend's privately owned hut near Kelchsau, but there is TONNES in the area.
Sellraintal and Stubai are the closest real touring hotspots close to Innsbruck. Sellrain probably tends to end back in the valley (eg at Alpengasthof Ruetz, Praxmar, etc) rather than really high mountain huts, but check out:
- Westfalenhaus: https://www.westfalenhaus.at
- Pforzheimerhütte: https://www.alpenverein-pforzheim.de/kletternhuettewege/pforzheimer-huette/winter.html
Around Stubai check out:
- Franz Senn Hütte: https://www.franzsennhuette.at/willkommen
- Ambergerhuütte: https://www.ambergerhuette.at
There are also a bunch of huts that are closed - but with open winter rooms - such as Nürnbergerhütte, Becherhaus, Müllerhütte and many many more. But I get the impression that you want catered huts with guardians and food provided etc?
One other hut close to Innsbruck that is definitely open is the Kemater Alm. It's not exactly high on the mountain and is pretty much behind the Axamer Lizum ski area, but accesses some really cool skitouring terrain, from the Kalkkögel couloirs to the Senderstal playgrounds, or even up and over into Sellraintal, Stubaital, or Schlick2000.
Other areas to check out would definitely be the Silvretta - the Jamtalhütte and Saarbrückerhütte are two that come to mind, but also around the Brenner, Schmirntal, Gschnitztal, Ötztal, Glungezer, Karwendel (between Nordkette and Achensee).... Really too many to name.
But what sort of touring are you looking for?
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@clarky999, that is brilliant than you very much, I'll have a look
No I'm looking for unmanned huts, what you get around the Mont Blanc/Monte Rosa/Zermatt area. I just don't know Austria at all
Basically looking for simple enough overnights like Cosmiques. If that makes sense?
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| moseyp wrote: |
@clarky999, that is brilliant than you very much, I'll have a look
No I'm looking for unmanned huts, what you get around the Mont Blanc/Monte Rosa/Zermatt area. I just don't know Austria at all
Basically looking for simple enough overnights like Cosmiques. If that makes sense? |
Very welcome!
I’m not familiar with those areas or the cosmiques - the only overnight hut stuff I’ve done in Italy was Gran Paradiso in a manned hut. But if you’re more into winter room/un-manned/cook yourselves then almost every hut has a winter room so the options are pretty much endless!
I have a couple of travel days coming up, but after that I could put some ideas together for you if there’s no time pressure
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