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Piz Tumpiv 3101m
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Piz Tumpiv 3101m 

Page Type: Mountain/Rock

Location: Grisons / Graubünden, Switzerland, Europe

Lat/Lon: 46.78638°N / 8.98723°E

Activities: Mountaineering, Skiing

Season: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter

Elevation: 10174 ft / 3101 m

 

Page By: Cyrill

Created/Edited: Sep 13, 2008 / Sep 26, 2008

Object ID: 442111

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Overview

The Piz Tumpiv 3101m is a mountain in Switzerland, in the Swiss-canton Grisons (Graubünden) and in the region Surselva. He belongs to the Glarus Alps. The mountain is near the villages of Breil (Brigels) and Schlans.

Piz Tumpiv is in the Frisal valley (Val Frisal), which is famous for many beautiful ski tours in Spring time. Further valleys in the proximity of the Piz Tumpi, are in the southeast the Dadens valley (Val Dadens) and in the southwest the Punteglias valley (Val Punteglias). The Piz Tumpiv has two peaks, a north summit 3101m and south summit 3058m . You go to the northern summit, the main summit. Piz Tumpiv is a popular mountain in summer as well as in spring with Ski.In the north from Piz Tumpiv is the famous Bifertenstock 3419m.


 
Piz Tumpiv 3101m

Route & Difficulty

The common route in summertime is:

Start in the village Breil (Brigels) 1313m, go to alp "Tschegn Dadens Sut 1724m", forward into the Dadens valley (Val Dadens) and over the east side, the east flank to the summit of Piz Tumpiv 3101m.

Difficulty: WS (PD) or T6


Ski route:

The same as above. The terrain is steep, with ski is essential to have a minimal avalanche risk.

Ski-Difficulty: S+ (D+) ¦ Route: 211b ¦ 1810 metres in altitude


Online maps for Switzerland:

www.mapplus.ch
and
Map Search - Online Maps


Accommodations

Several hotels in the villages Breil and Schlans.

Link:
www.myswitzerland.com
and
www.brigels.com



Getting There

By public transport:

Train from Chur (capital of Grisons) to Breil (Brigels) 1313m.

Online train schedule (public transport Switzerland): SBB schedule


By car:

From Chur to Flims, Ilanz and then until Breil 1313m.

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

For further accommodations see here: www.tourism-switzerland.ch

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