Madrisa

The Madrisahorn is at an altitude of 2826 meters, is the seventh highest mountain in the Rätikons, a mountain range in the central eastern Alps. The summit in the Swiss canton of Grisons in the territory of the municipality of Klosters, 500 meters northeast of the state border runs to the Austrian province of Vorarlberg. The horn is to the south of the dominant peaks above Klosters and Kublis. It is therefore a popular, often committed lookout mountain. The appearing as dark triangular pyramid mountain sends three distinctive ridges to the west, northeast and southeast. He clearly stands out from the lighter Rätikon limestone around. The Madrisa mentioned area is in the winter, a much frequented, serviced from Klosters ski area with many lifts and runs.

Environment

The Madrisahorn is the highest elevation of Madrisagruppe, which forms the southeastern end of the Rätikons. In just over five kilometers in a straight line lying northeast of the health resort Gargellen Vorarlberg in Austria. Graubündner communities Klosters are approximately 6 kilometers south and Kublis 7.5 km west-southwest. Significant neighboring mountains there are only in the West, the 2703 meter high Rätschenfluh, and in the northeast, in the burr profile, the March peak with 2732 meters of altitude. To the east, south west and north, the Madrisaspitze coincides with extensive debris aprons in three cirques and valleys from south-east to the Schafcalanda, south and north of the Chüecalanda Rätschenjochs ( 2602 m) to the Gafier plates.

Bases and routes

From Klosters performs a cable car up to an altitude of 1887 m on the Saas Alp. From the top station there are many routes to be faced as a day trip. Base for ascents of the north is the village Gafia ( Gafien ) at 1747 meters above sea level in the valley Gafier. From there, the normal route on the Madrisahorn south leads initially to the Gafier plates and a snowfield on the north flank. About steep scree it goes in, according to the literature, easy climbing in difficulty UIAA I to the summit. The walk takes about three hours. Also from Gargellen from the Madrisahorn climb. More climbing routes in the UIAA grade II through the southwestern flank or on the ridges.

Sources and maps

  • Manfred Hunziker: Ringelspitz / Arosa / Rätikon, Alpine Touring / Grison Alps, publisher of the SAC 2010, ISBN 978-3-85902-313-0
  • Guenther Flaig: Alpine Club leaders Rätikon, Bergverlag Rother Munich, 1989, ISBN 3-7633-1098-3
  • Wilhelm Eduard Strauss in Judges: The opening up of the Eastern Alps, Volume I, published by the German and Austrian Alpine Club, Berlin 1893
  • Map of Switzerland 1:25,000, sheet 1177 Serneus
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