Marchspitze

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Marchspitze
Marchspitze.jpg
The Marchspitze from the south
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Left to right: Hermannskarturm, and Marchspitze (from the southeast)
Highest point
Elevation2,609 m (AA) (8,560 ft)
Prominence167 m ↓ Spiehlerscharte
Isolation1.4 km → Großer Krottenkopf
Coordinates47°18′54″N 10°22′29″E / 47.315°N 10.37472°E / 47.315; 10.37472Coordinates: 47°18′54″N 10°22′29″E / 47.315°N 10.37472°E / 47.315; 10.37472
Geography
Marchspitze is located in Austria
Marchspitze
Marchspitze
Parent rangeHornbach chain, Allgäu Alps

The Marchspitze (2,609 m (AA)) is a prominent summit, made of main dolomite, in the Hornbach chain of the Allgäu Alps. It is located 1.5 kilometres east of the much better known Großer Krottenkopf and is entirely on Austrian soil.

Ascent[]

It is a challenging climb and therefore receives only a modest number of visitors. The normal route starts in the middle of the Hermannskar cirque, where climbers leave the path linking the and the and painstakingly and, in places, tracklessly make their way up a steep rubble slope to the Spiehlerscharte (2,395 m) notch. At the col the route switches to the north side of the mountain and approaches it up a prominent gully, through which the western arête is reached after another gully (UIAA grade II). The route continues along and below the knife-edge, exposed in places and with several grade I climbing sections, to the summit. The route is marked occasionally with cairns. The journey time from the Hermann von Barth Hut is three hours. A more difficult route (up to grade II) runs up the southern arête to the top. The circular route is popular; ascending up the southern arête and descending down the normal route.

Literature[]

  • Thaddäus Steiner: Allgäuer Bergnamen, Lindenberg, Kunstverlag Josef Fink, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89870-389-5
  • Dieter Seibert: Allgäuer Alpen Alpin, Alpine Club Guide. Munich, Bergverlag Rudolf Rother, 2004. ISBN 3-7633-1126-2
  • Alpine Club map 1:25,000 series, Sheet 2/1, Allgäuer- Lechtaler Alpen, West

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