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Piz Lagrev 3165m
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Piz Lagrev 3165m 

Page Type: Mountain/Rock

Location: Grisons / Graubünden, Switzerland, Europe

Lat/Lon: 46.44164°N / 9.74419°E

Activities: Mountaineering, Skiing

Season: Spring, Summer, Fall

Elevation: 10384 ft / 3165 m

 

Page By: Cyrill

Created/Edited: Mar 18, 2008 / Oct 7, 2008

Object ID: 389049

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Overview

Piz Lagrev 3165m is a mountain in Switzerland, in the canton Grisons. Lagrev belongs to the Albula Group and the Rhaetian Alps. Piz Lagrev is in the proximity of the Julier mountain pass 2284m and the villages Sils im Engadin and Maloja at the lake Silsersee. To the northeast of the summit you find the glacier "Vadret Lagrev". The last small glacier in this area, it stands for something lost there. To the northwest you find the beautiful mountain lake "Leg Grevasalvas" 2390m. Piz Lagrev is a popular mountain in summer as well as in spring with ski. Particularly with ski it is visited frequently from the pass road.

Link to Piz Lagrev tour: www.skitour-piz-lagrev.ch

 
Piz Lagrev 3165m





Route & Difficulty

Summer route:

Julier pass / Alp Güglia 2161m - Gianda Lagrev 2659m - glacier lake at 2721m - Vadret Lagrev - Piz Lagrev north 3109m - north ridge - Piz Lagrev main summit 3164,5m.

Difficulty: L-WS (F-PD)

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Ski tour route:

Julier pass / Alp Güglia 2161m - Gianda Lagrev 2659m - glacier lake at 2721m - Vadret Lagrev - Piz Lagrev north 3109m - north ridge - Piz Lagrev main summit 3164,5m.

Difficulty: ZS- ¦ Route: 462 ¦ 950 metres in altitude
btw. Piz Lagrev is a fantastic ski tour.

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Online maps for Switzerland:

www.mapplus.ch

Map Search - Online Maps

Accommodations

Sleep in a hotel or guest-house in St.Moritz or Maloja. In Maloja there is a youth hostel.

Link: www.youthhostel.ch or Tourism St.Moritz

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Good and favorable accommodations: www.rooms.ch

Getting There

By public transport:

SBB & RHB-railway from Chur to St.Moritz. Change to the yellow post bus to the village Silvaplana, there you have to order a taxi.

Online train&bus schedule (public transport Switzerland): SBB schedule


By car:

From Chur to the village Tiefencastel. Forward to villages Savognin, Bivio and over the Julier pass to the parking at Alp Güglia 2161m.


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

Weather, climate and snow conditions in Switzerland

Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology

Weather SFDRS

Meteo News.ch

Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research Davos: www.slf.ch

Links

Link to Piz Lagrev tour: www.skitour-piz-lagrev.ch

Switzerland tourism: www.myswitzerland.com

Gisons tourism: www.graubünden.ch

Good and favorable accommodations: www.rooms.ch

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