Rastkogel

The Rastkogelbahn is a pyramid-shaped, 2762 m above sea level. A. high mountain in the main crest of the Tux Alps in the Austrian state of Tyrol.

Location

The Rastkogelbahn is five kilometers in a straight line north-northeast of Vorderlanersbach ( Tux ) in the Tux Valley, the westernmost valley of the Zillertal. Adjacent peaks are in the west, by the Nurpensjoch ( 2525 m) separated, the Haslspitze with 2,574 meters above sea level, and further against the Watt Lizum to the Hirzer ( 2725 m). To the north is the Rosskopf ( 2576 m) - and far more excellently into the Inn valley - the Gilfert ( 2506 m) and to the east, separated by the Hoarbergjoch ( 2590 m), the Pangert with 2,550 meters above sea level.

Because of its dominant position south to the Tux out the Rastkogelbahn is a most trodden mountain. On it, the ridge divides cross-shaped in these three directions, the rock walls are but a north-south oriented. To the south of the massif falls relatively steeply into the Tux Valley.

Bases and routes to the summit

Climbing the rest Kogels in the form of an alpine mountain hike over the normal route, the easiest route is from the north over the south-east of the Rastkogelhütte ( 2117 m) in about three hours. Another route is from the north-west Weiden hut on 1.799 meters above sea level from about Haslspitze and the west ridge in a good four hours to the summit.

There is a ski resort that is accessible by a cable car from Vorderlanersbach out on the southwest edge of the latching mountain.

Sources and maps

• Walter Klier: field guide Zillertal Alps (northern part ) and Tux Alps, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7633-3258-8
• Walter Klier: Zillertal, Gerlos with and Tux Valley, Mountain Publishing Rother, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7633-4175-7.
• Freytag & Berndt hiking map 1:50,000, sheet WK 151, Zillertal, Tux Alps, Jenbach Schwaz. ISBN 978-3-85084-751-3