Fanellhorn

Overview

Fanellhorn 3124m is a mountain in the eastern part of Switzerland, in the canton Grisons and within the Lepontine Alps. He is in the vicinity of the village Vals and close by the Zervreila lake and the region Rheinwald. Additional is Fanellhorn the neighbor of Chilchalphorn. To the south of the summit you find the glacier "Fanellgletscher". Fanellhorn is a popular mountain in summer as well as in spring with ski.

Route & Difficulty

Summer route:

Mountain hotel Zervreila 1736m at the Zervreila lake - Guraletsch lake 2409m - Wissgrätli Pt. 2794m - west flank - Fanellhorn 3124m

Difficulty: L (F) ¦ 1300 metres in altitude


Alternative route:

Village Hinterrhein 1620m - Chilchalp 2306m - Chilchalplücke 2808m - ost flank - Fanellhorn 3124m

Difficulty: L (F)

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Ski tour route:

Mountain hotel Zervreila 1736m at the Zervreila lake - Guraletsch lake 2409m - Wissgrätli Pt. 2794m - west flank - Fanellhorn 3124m.

Route 314a ¦ Difficulty: ZS ¦ 1300 metres in altitude

Accommodations

Mountain hotel Zervreila 1736m - Link: www.zervreila.ch

Länta Hut 2090m - Link: www.laenta-hut.ch

Getting There

By public transport:

SBB & RHB-railway from Chur to village Ilanz. One takes the yellow bus and drives to Vals 1254m

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

Switzerland has one of the world's best public transport systems


By car:

From Chur to the village Ilanz. Forward to village Vals 1254m.


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

Switzerland Tourism: www.myswitzerland.com

Gisons Tourism: www.graubünden.ch

Good and favorable accommodations: www.rooms.ch

In Memory of Cyrill Rüegger

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.

Images

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