4.3 million Euros for a mountain hut. A little over the top, don't you think? I like the old stone huts (although they represent the "middle age" with respect to hut design) better, although I am all for adding solar panels and the like.

Moni wrote:4.3 million Euros for a mountain hut. A little over the top, don't you think? I like the old stone huts (although they represent the "middle age" with respect to hut design) better, although I am all for adding solar panels and the like.

Well that´s the Swiss for you. At least this one´s got the toilets inside. I nearly broke my neck slipping on the ice there the other year going to take a leek in the night.

This is the nes Olperer hut in Zillertal. Stayed there last weekend and quite liked it. It´s not damp like the old one and has a super panorama window looking over the valley.
http://www.olpererhuette.de/nathus-1026/lage-der-huette.html

Borut Kantušer wrote:

charles wrote:Well that´s the Swiss for you. At least this one´s got the toilets inside. I nearly broke my neck slipping on the ice there the other year going to take a leek in the night.

That's what happens when no one sweeps up the steps, or maintains the path to the toilets.

But there again it´s the mountains so maybe one should expect such things. I only did it once on my first trip to the toilets after that I held onto the railing- I´m a quich learner!

charles wrote:

Moni wrote:4.3 million Euros for a mountain hut. A little over the top, don't you think? I like the old stone huts (although they represent the "middle age" with respect to hut design) better, although I am all for adding solar panels and the like.

Well that´s the Swiss for you. At least this one´s got the toilets inside. I nearly broke my neck slipping on the ice there the other year going to take a leek in the night.

Nice one! I love those swiss experiences.
I once passed a night in Bordierhütte, a really nice little hut. The toilets there were 150 m away from the hut, an equal nice wooden shack placed over a creek. Natural flush
There was an urgent need in the night and I stumbled out to the shack and back again. And then (I left my headlamp in the hut ) there was this huge black shadow moving towards me
A mountain ghost ? The devil ?
It was a big male ibex and he was as frightened and astonished as I was.
Who needs inside toilets ?? That is boring

I know that geographically it's impossible but my dream is :
an earthquake that makes the building on the top of Klein Matterhorn fall down on the new Monte Rosa Hutte ...