Muttler

Muttler is beautiful pyramid-shaped mountain which holds the honor to be the highest of the Samnaun-group. It was climbed for the first time in 1858. With its 3294 meters it is an important landmark in the area and of the village of Samnaun (Switzerland).  Although Muttler is just over the border in Switzerland, most of the Samnaun Group is situated on the Austrian side of the border (towards Ischl and Serfaus). Muttler is very popular for hiking/climbing, because the summit can be reached in summer without any technical difficulties. With good hiking shoes, a reasonable endurance level and enough experience with difficult 'high alpine' hikes, you can get up to almost 3300 meters! The normal route is graded T4.

Its height over 3000 meters & being the highest of the Samnaun Group makes Muttler an attractive mountain for hikers/climbers. Muttler is also known to be the ‘home mountain’ of the Samnaun-village. From Samnaun, the mountain can be climbed best. Climbing Muttler is definitely worth the effort, because the views are great. You can see towards the Oetztal area, Ortlergruppe, Bernina Alps and of course the other peaks of the Samnaun-Group. If you want to know more about other Samnaun-Group mountains, check out the Furgler and Planskopf SP-sites. 

Getting to the Top

  
 

The starting point for this route is the village of Samnaun (1800m). Start your route just by walking in the direction of the mountain (towards the South). You will automatically come on a marked trail, which leads straight to the mountain and into the Val Masais valley. 

The trail leads through the Maisas valley where the route starts to become a little bit steeper in comparison with the start in Samnaun (T2/3). Even so, the route stays relatively easy in this part of the ascent.
Follow the path until you eventually come to a split-up of the road. This is near the end of the Val Masais valley floor. The path which goes to the right goes to Stammersjoch, so you have to take a left. At this point, the route get’s steeper since it leaves the valley floor up the mountans North Flank. During the climb you pass a little lake with red water: the Rooten Seeli. (The water gets this color from Algae).

After the Rooten Seeli the routes leaves the North-West Flank of the mountain and arrives at the South ridge of Muttler. The trail follows the entire south ridge until you eventually reach the summit. This last part, that goes straight to the summit, will take about 1 to 2 hours of climbing/hiking. On the summit there is the possibility to take another route down, just follow the trail over the summit ridge and on the other side the trail goes down again (see Map), which eventually comes out on the path to Stammersjoch, which you follow down to get down to the split-up where you passed by on the way up.

The last part back to Samnaun therefore is the same path you took after leaving Samnaun into the Masias valley. The time you need is about 7,5 hours for this trip. The route is graded T4

 

This is a berautiful 360 degrees Webcam towards Muttler and many other surrounding peaks (from Palinkopf)