Habicht

Hawk from northeast

The hawk of Südwestenbdep2

The hawk ( also popularly known as Hager or Hoger ) is a 3277 m above sea level. A. high mountain in the Stubai Alps in Tyrol, Austria.

Topography

The hawk is between the Stubai Valley in the northwest, the Pinnistal, a side valley of the Stubai Valley to the east and Gschnitztal in the southeast. He is the highest elevation in the hawk crest, a ridge, which branches off near the flints from the main Alpine ridge and runs in a northeasterly direction to the Elferspitze. Its south-western neighbor peak is the 3133 meter high peak smoothness, in the north- east is the 2833 m high Schaufelspitzl. To the east lies the Pinnisjoch ( 2370 m), a transition between Pinnis and Gschnitztal where the Serleskamm branches off from the hawk crest. The hawk carries three glaciers. North side, the steep Mischbach Furthermore, embedded northeast of the small Pinnisferner, southeast side is the flat hawk addition. Even beneath the southwest flank there is a small snowfield.

History

For a long time the hawk, called by the locals " Hoger ," because of its distinctive shape as the highest mountain in Tyrol:

" The Hoger in Gschnitz, the Waldraster Spitz and the Martin Wall be the highest in the country. "

Of all the high peaks of the Stubai the hawk was mounted as the first tourist, which previously were already indigenous hunters and the assistants of the National Survey on the summit. Peter Carl Thurwieser found in his ascent of the mountain on September 1, 1836 a stone man in front at the summit. Along with the mountain guide Ingenuin Krösbacher from Fulpmes they went up from the northern Pinnisalm from the Pinnisjoch, then west to the Speikgrathöhe and a snowfield and the hawk - east ridge to the summit. The walk was after Thurwiesers information three hours and 25 minutes. He stayed four and a half hours on the summit, in order to keep records to view and perform barometric measurements. The descent led by the same route.

Ways

From Innsbruck's hut on Pinnisjoch from the hawk can be reached on the normal route is relatively easy ( Make UIAA I, insurance). The trail passes through the south-eastern flank, the hawk Furthermore overlying is column -free, but in late summer may aper. Further increases are the Western North Ridge (III ), the Mischbach addition ( ice tour, 50 ° ), the Eastern North Ridge (IV ), the northeast wall (II) from southeast (II ), the southwest ridge (II ) and the southwest column (IV ). In winter, the hawk can be climbed as a ski tour on the southwest flank or on the Mischbach Furthermore, in safe conditions.

Gallery

The hawk addition

The hawk from the south with traces of ski touring

From Steinach am Brenner

Sources and maps

• Walter Klier: Alpine Club leaders Stubai Alps. Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7633-1271-4.
• Alpine Club map 1:50,000, sheet 31/3 burner mountains