Page Type: | Mountain/Rock |
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Lat/Lon: | 47.44358°N / 14.40394°E |
Activities: | Hiking, Scrambling |
Season: | Spring, Summer, Fall |
Elevation: | 8025 ft / 2446 m |
Grosser Boesenstein stoods up
prominently in the remote part of the Eastern Alps central zone as the highest summit of the Rottenmanner Tauern mountain range.
At
the same time, it is the highest summit of it's own
Boesenstein group.
Rottenmanner Tauern is the
nordeasternmost group of the Niedere Tauern range, cream on the cake
route in Rottenmanner's area is the Trieben-Rottenmann
traverse
over the Boesenstein group proper main ridge (1-2 days). Easiest
ascend, though, is 2 and 1/2 half hours walk-up from the parking lot
beneath the
glacial Scheibelsee
lake, with the Edelrauthuette hut as the logistic base.
Brief
routes overview:
Normal route over the southeast ridge: from
parking lot at Scheibelalm pasture located west of the Hohentauern
town, walk up bypassing the Edelraute hut,
till the
Scheibelsee lake. At lake, fork right and steep uphill toward the
summit of Hauseck. Passing Hauseck, you'll reach small
flat
saddle (great view down to the Scheibel lake). From here, due right and
up the wide rocky ridge, untill you pass smaller loose rock filled gap.
Above the gap, follow the rib due left and, finally fork right toward
not wooden brown but rather metal white summit cross.
Your
effort most likely being welcomed by alpine jackdaws, as they often
gather on the Boesensteins summit, (ab)using it as the launching
platform
for attacks on nearby Mt. Grimming. Marked path
=
946. 2 and half hours, alltogether.
Descending back same way, or alteernatively, due SW and over
the
summit of Grosser Hengst completing the loop tour, marked path = 02.
Full
traverse route: from Boesenstein main summit continue over
the NW ridge till the summit of Sonntagskarspitze. Now,
firmly due north for Dreistecken summit and further to
Hocheide. This ridge traverse includes many passages inside I and II
difficulty range, harder spots are secured with steel ropes.
Ridge is spiked with small pillars and gendarmes, ups and downs
triggering altitude gains and losses every now and then.As you progress
down the ridge,
on your right you'll notice 4 small
green lakes. Those are important to remember, bacause all 4 are
emergency exits in case of weather worsening. Count with 30 minutes or
so of speed descend from the ridge to the nearest lake. From the
aforementioned Hochaide, another couple of hours takes you to the
Rotenmanner hutte, thus completing the traverse.
Nearest hut is Edelrautehütte located
between Gr. Boesenstein and Gr. Hengst.
Comfortable.
Frequently visited by day hikers.
Hut phone +43
(0)664 9136670
web site
Possible
hut-to-hut traverse from the Edelraute hut to Rottenmanner hut was
described in 1st chapter.
Note that main Boesenstain summit
is 2 and half hours from the Edelraute hut, whilst well over
5 -6 hours
from the Rotenmanner hut and route to/from
Rotenmanner hut is more difficult.
Rottenmanner hut
phone
+043 (0)664 1462923
web site
Weather:
from the wetter.at service #1: http://www.wetter.at/wetter/oesterreich/steiermark/rottenman/
from
the wetter.at service #2: http://www.wetter.at/wetter/oesterreich/steiermark/hohentauern/
Maps:
ÖK 50
Blatt
130 Trieben
Freytag
& Berndt 50 Blatt 062
Online
round
tour map
Security:
Emergency
mountain rescue, dial 140