A note from the SP staff
Cyrill Rüegger, the member we all used to know as Cyrill and Digitalis, died on June 13th 2009 in an avalanche on the summit ridge of Piz Palü together with his wife Tanja and a common friend. They were swept down by the avalanche into a couloir underneath the east summit and died instantly. Their bodies were retrieved from the Palü Glacier by helicopter a day after the accident.

Cyrill joined SP in March 2006 and soon was one of the most prolific contributors on the site with almost 70 mountain and 5 range pages to his profile. He was an accomplished climber, bagging almost 1000 summits in not quite seven years. Among them are 35 4000ers and 272 3000ers, almost all of them in his home country Switzerland.

While contributing a lot on SP, Cyrill's real internet home was www.hikr.org where he contributed 585 mountain profiles and reports in his native language German. Cyrill also posted on www.bergsteigen.at and other climbing sites, often under his real name but also under the pseudonym Digitalis. He was a botanist by profession and also contributed his knowledge about medical plants to different websites. Cyrill will be greatly missed by all.

This page will be kept in honour of Cyrill, one of SP's most prolific members and most active mountaineers.

Rest in peace, brother!

The picture above was taken on the summit of Matterhorn on July 28th 2007.

Overview

The Bifertenstock 3419m is a mountain in Switzerland, in the swiss canton Glarus. He is the second highest mountain in the canton Glarus after Toedi 3614m. He is on the Border of the Swiss cantons Glarus and Grisons.

To the north of the summit you find the glacier "Griessfirn" and "Limmerenfirn". To the south you find the glacier "Glatscher da Frisal". Bifertenstock is a popular mountain in summer as well as in spring with Ski. The Rhaeto-Romanic name is Péz Durschin. First ascent: 7. September 1863 by Roth, Sand and Raillard.

The Bifertenstock 3419m

Route & Difficulty

The normal route no. 621 is called "Bänderweg". It is a band in the south wall of the Bifertenstock. The "Bänderweg" is one of the most impressive tour in the eastern Alps of Switzerland!
Difficulty: ZS-

Our route led over the north east wall, the "Eisnase/Ice nose". That is a difficult ice tour. Starting point from Biferten Hut.
Difficulty: S (D)

Ski tour route:
Breil/Brigels - Val Frisal - P.3076m - east ridge - Bifertenstock (very difficult)
Difficulty: S+ , 2150 metres in altitude from Breil/Brigels. Route no. 213

Getting There

By public transport:

Train from Chur (capital of Grisons) to Flims and Breil/Brigels 1287m.

Online train schedule (public transport Switzerland): SBB schedule

By car:

From Chur, Flims until Breil/Brigels.

Online route scheduler: route scheduler in english and TCS.ch

Accommodation

Biferten Hut 2482m >Link: Biferten Hut and Bifertenhut

accessible from Breil/Brigels 1287m

Biferten Hut 2482m

Books & Map

Guidebook Summer:
Alpinführer Glarner Alpen
Author: Peter Straub

Guidebook winter / ski tour:
Skitouren Graubünden
Vital Eggenberger

Map Search - Online Maps

Online Map Swissmap

External Links

Link to Bifertenstock 3419m : Bifertenstock

Switzerland Tourism: www.myswitzerland.com

Glarus tourism: www.glarusnet.ch

Canton Glarus homepage: www.glarus.ch

If you have any question, do not hesitate to contact me at: cyrill74@gmx.ch

Weather conditions in Switzerland

Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology

Weather SFDRS

Meteo News.ch

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