Wildspitze Climber's Log
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| rgg | North-south traverse  Date Climbed: Jul 8, 2012 | |
| Back in 2004, the Wildspitze was my first glacier climb, then by the normal route from the Vernagthütte and back. This time we climbed the North wall and descended the normal route back to the Breslauerhütte, and further down to Vent. | |
| Posted Apr 4, 2013 5:09 am | ||
| telemarkdude | Northwest Ridge from Braunschweiger Huette Date Climbed: Jul 21, 1988 | |
| Climbed the Northwest ridge of the Wildspitze. Beautiful climb. Descended the standard route. | |
| Posted Oct 9, 2012 2:25 am | ||
| Gijsj | From Venagthütte Date Climbed: Sep 14, 2012 | |
| We took the route from Vernagthütte via the kleiner Vernagtferner and the Brochkogeljoch 3423m. Further over the Taschachferner and the normal route to the southern top. There was about 30cm of fresh snow on the glaciers which made some crevasses invisible. The weather was extremely good, sunny and very bright air giving a superb panoramic view on almost the whole Eastern Alps. A better view was not possible according local mountain guides because we could see the Piz Tödi of 3614m in the Glarus Alps (Switzerland), which is a view of 148km/92miles. Our Austrian guides told me that in recent years the chance on this kind of excellent weather is greater in september than in july/august, mainly because of the colder nights in september. Descend route was the same as ascend, we used crampons because of the fresh snow until we reached the glacier. Long but easy tour. | |
| Posted Sep 27, 2012 6:32 am | ||
| charles | Nice day | |
| The ordinary route from the vernagtütte and down to the Braslauerhütte. Nice day out with a snow storm on the top | |
| Posted Nov 7, 2011 8:07 am | ||
| nlafevers | From Rofen Date Climbed: Apr 10, 2011 | |
| I parked at the lot in the tiny village of Rofen (2014 m) and started hiking at 2:15 a.m. with the temperature at 39 degrees F. Following the trail, I reached the Vernagthutte (2755 m) at 4:45 a.m., where the temperature was 31 degrees F. I reached the south summit (3770 m) at 9:45 a.m. with a temperature of 16 degrees F not considering chill from roughly 20 mph wind. Along the route above 2800 meters the wind stayed moderate and steady out of the north. Below about 2300 meters there was little snow left, and above that it was all neve, but with avalanche danger rising to moderate in the afternoon on steep slopes. I returned to Rofen at 1:00 p.m. and by then the temperature down there had risen to 62 degrees F. | ||
| Posted Sep 15, 2011 10:52 pm | ||
| rgg | Normal route Date Climbed: Aug 17, 2004 | |
| From the Vernagthütte and back. | |
| Posted Nov 9, 2010 6:14 pm | ||
| Lodewijk | Traverse Route Date Climbed: Aug 27, 2010 | |
| We did the Traverse Route: Breslauer Hut - Mitterkarjoch - Wildspitze South Summit - Wildspitze North Summit - Rofenkarferner - Breslauer Hut First to summit that day, we had to summit early because the weather predictions were very bad! At the summit a little cloudy but still great views. Later that day while descending back to Vent from Breslauer Hut a big Thunderstorm broke out. So we were glad we were already almost down in the valley. | |
| Posted Oct 22, 2010 4:55 am | ||
| pirminoldeweghuis | From Braunschweigerhütte Date Climbed: Jul 10, 2009 | |
| After we did the Mainzer Hohenweg the day before, we started to climb from the Braunschweigerhütte to the Wildspitze. We took the normal route over the Piztaler Joch, the Tasachferner and straight up to the Mitterkarjoch to acces the normalroute from the Breslauerhütte to the summit. Due to bad conditions (too much snow) the guide decided to take the same way back but to the Breslauerhütte, instead of descending over the Rofenkarferner to the Breslauerhütte. The tour wasn't as heavy as the Mainzer Hohenweg, but because of the large amounts of snow it took us about 11.5 hours in total. (Braunschweigerhütte-Wildspitze-Breslauerhütte-Vent) | |
| Posted Aug 13, 2010 2:04 pm | ||
| Lionheart63 | A little bit dangerous | |
| It was my second peak in the Alps. I went there by normal route from Breslauer Hutte. And when I went down I got a long uncontrolled snow ride down the couloir from Mitterkarjoch due to a melting snow. I have a scar on my forearm till now! | |
| Posted Mar 21, 2010 1:36 pm | ||
| bledl | normal route | |
| Climbed the normal route with my friend Roman. His first alpine climbing experience. Alone on the Winterraum at Breslauer Hütte. Very nice! | |
| Posted Sep 1, 2009 6:48 pm | ||
| Mathias Zehring | normal route from Breslauer hut Date Climbed: Jul 22, 2007 | |
| my second visit after the first on July 5th 1987. Because of global warming many things have changed in the meantime | |
| Posted Jun 27, 2009 3:18 am | ||
| joe_akeem | Ski trip from Mittelbergjoch Date Climbed: Apr 10, 2009 | |
| Good conditions, great weather, some wind up on the ridge. Descent to the Vernagt hut. A good way to start an easter weekend at the Vernagt hut. | |
| Posted Apr 16, 2009 3:33 pm | ||
| selinunte01 | Summer and Winter success Date Climbed: Mar 30, 1991 | |
| I climbed both summits three times; in summer from Breslauer Hütte and from Taschachhaus, traversing Petersenspitze and in spring from Vernagthütte with skies. Great summit! | |
| Posted Jan 18, 2009 12:44 pm | ||
| Pommes | Ski tour in Snow Date Climbed: Apr 11, 2008 | |
| Bad weather. With Skis from Verngat-Hütte. | |
| Posted Apr 13, 2008 8:01 am | ||
| Modi | Normal route from Breslauer Date Climbed: Jun 5, 1994 | |
| Descent to Braunschweigerhutte | |
| Posted Mar 2, 2008 7:01 am | ||
| Troll | Route Climbed: Breslauer Hutte - Mitterkarjoch Date Climbed: Dec 29, 2007 | |
| Not so much snow, but great weather. | |
| Posted Jan 16, 2008 4:14 pm | ||
| Peter K | Route Climbed: From Braunschweiger Hut via NW ridge Date Climbed: Aug 24, 2007 | |
| Beautiful trip, fairly easy, even via the unusual NW ridge. Great view, clear sky, just a perfect mountain day! | |
| Posted Dec 26, 2007 7:34 pm | ||
| becquerel | Wonderful Date Climbed: Jul 8, 2007 | |
| A bit more difficult than Similaun two days before, but still quite easy. From Breslauer h., through Mitterkarjoch to the southern summit, then traverse to the northern summit, and descend via north-east ridge. Especially descend was beautiful and delicious :-) | |
| Posted Aug 19, 2007 6:06 pm | ||
| Rafa Bartolome | Impressive mountain! Date Climbed: Jul 23, 2007 | |
| Impressive peak, the highest of Tyrol and the second of Austria, it was a very special experience. Because the presence of less snow for the hot temperatures in july of this year the coulouir of normal route from Breslauer Hütte was really vertical (45-50º) and we left it cilmibg the channel of rocks of left side (not very difficult rocky climb of grade II with some fixed ropes for help). The route had some important crevasses in the glacier but it was a secure route. We found some ice in the final part but without snow to reach the summit in a foggy day. No views in the summit but it was the most important climb in our holidays in Austria. In the descent we climbed the nice Wildes Mannle (3,019m) with some interesting view of Wildspitze. We'll return some day to this beautiful country, I'm sure. | |
| Posted Jul 29, 2007 6:58 pm | ||
| flow | Wildspitze Date Climbed: Jul 7, 2007 | |
| From Braunschweiger 2.759m hut to Wildspitze and Petersen Spitze 3.484 to Vernagt Hut 2.766m | |
| Posted Jul 10, 2007 4:07 pm | ||
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