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| Page Type: Mountain/Rock Location: Grisons / Graubünden, Switzerland, Europe Lat/Lon: 46.76997°N / 9.95499°E Activities: Mountaineering, Skiing Season: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter Elevation: 10272 ft / 3131 m | Page By: Cyrill Created/Edited: Apr 20, 2008 / May 30, 2010 Object ID: 397712 Hits: 2597 Loading... Page Score: 88.31% - 17 Votes Loading... Vote: Log in to vote |
OverviewPiz Grialetsch 3131m is a mountain in Switzerland, in the canton Grisons. Piz Grialetsch belongs to the Albula Group and the Rhaetian Alps.
He is in the proximity of the Flüela mountain pass 2383m and by the villages Davos and Zernez in the Engadin.
To the northeast of the summit you find the glacier "Vadret da Grialetsch" and to the southwest the glacier "Vadret Vallorgia". The last small glaciers in this area, it stands for something lost there. To the north you find the beautiful Grialetsch hut 2542m. Piz Grialetsch is a popular mountain in summer as well as in spring with ski.
 Piz Grialetsch 3131m (right)
Route & DifficultySummer route:
Grialetsch hut 2542m - Vadret da Grialetsch - Fuorcla Vallorgia - P.3045m - West ridge - Piz Grialetsch 3131m
Difficulty: WS (PD)
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Ski tour route:
Grialetsch hut 2542m - Vadret da Grialetsch - Fuorcla Vallorgia - P.3045m - West ridge - Piz Grialetsch 3131m
Difficulty: ZS- ¦ Route: 535a ¦ 600 metres in altitude
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Online maps for Switzerland:
www.mapplus.ch
Map Search - Online Maps
AccommodationsGrialetsch hut 2542m - Link: www.chamanna da Grialetsch
Guesthouse Dürrboden 2003m - Link: guesthouse duerrboden
Getting ThereBy public transport:
SBB & RHB-railway from Chur to Davos. Change to the Davoser-bus to the Dischma valley. the bus drives to Dürrboden 2003. The starting point for the Grialetsch hut.
Online train&bus schedule (public transport Switzerland): SBB schedule
By car:
From Chur to the village Davos and into the Dischma valley, until Dürrboden 2003. The starting point for the Grialetsch hut.
Online Route scheduler: route scheduler in english and TCS.ch
Weather, climate and snow conditions in SwitzerlandFederal Office of Meteorology and Climatology
Weather SFDRS
Meteo News.ch
Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research Davos: www.slf.ch LinksLink to the Piz Grialetsch 3131m tour: www.grialetsch-tour.ch
Davos tourism - Link: www.davos.ch
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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