Hafelekarspitze
Hafelekarspitze | |
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Highest point | |
Elevation | 2,334 m (AA) (7,657 ft) |
Isolation | 0.53 km (0.33 mi) |
Coordinates | 47°18′46″N 11°23′11″E / 47.312828°N 11.38632°ECoordinates: 47°18′46″N 11°23′11″E / 47.312828°N 11.38632°E |
Geography | |
Hafelekarspitze Tyrol, Austria | |
Parent range | , Karwendel |
Geology | |
Age of rock | Triassic |
Type of rock | Wetterstein limestone[1] |
Climbing | |
Access |
The Hafelekarspitze is a mountain in the so-called North Chain (Nordkette) north of Innsbruck in Austria.
Location and landscape[]
Below and west of the summit is the top station of Hafelekar, the second section of the Nordkette Cable Car at a height of 2,269 m (AA), from where the Hafelekarspitze may be reached in a few minutes by foot on a metalled path.
Not far from there is the , a cosmic radiation observatory of the University of Innsbruck, the only one of its kind in Austria. It was here in 1937 that physicists Marietta Blau and Hertha Wambacher using Nuclear emulsion plates, made the first ever observation of nuclear disintegration 'stars' (Zertrümmerungsterne) caused by cosmic rays striking nuclei in the emulsion.[2]
Summit cross on the Hafelekarspitze
The top station of the Nordketten Cable Car at the Hafelekar cirque
Research station and amateur radio hut (left)
Routes[]
In summer, the Hafelekarspitze is the start point for mountain hikes and tours along the Goethe Way (Goetheweg) to the , the Mandlspitze (2,366 m (AA)), the saddle or to the . At the eastern end of the Goethe Way is the north and below the Rumer Spitze, which is used as a base for the long route via the Wilde Bande-Steig to the Lafatscher Joch (2,081 m (AA)) and the . In winter there is a ski route from the top station to the Seegrube (1,905 m (AA)), the centre of the North Chain ski area.
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External links[]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hafelekar. |
- www.nordkette-austria.net – The website about the North Chain
- The Innsbruck Klettersteig
- Two-thousanders of Austria
- Mountains of Tyrol (state)
- Karwendel
- Innsbruck
- Mountains of the Alps