Trekking in the Stubai Alps - The Stubai Rucksack Route

With its shapely peaks, good paths and welcoming huts, the Stubai in the Austrian Tyrol is an ideal venue for a first Alpine season. This guide describes two celebrated routes, the Stubai Rucksack Route and the Stubai Glacier Tour, which take the walker into the heart of the range.

December 2005

My main concern for the Stubai is that of diminishing glaciers and of rapid development by the Stubai Glacier Company.

Page 9: Central Innsbruck Plan

The Hauptbahnhof main railway station has been fully modernised over the past two years.

The tourist information office is now located at basement level within the railway station.

Page12: The Austrian Alpine Club

Current membership of Sektion Britannia is 5100

Membership costs,
Normal member £40
Family member spouse £31
Seniors £31
Children £14

Current address.
The Manager
Austrian Alpine Club UK Section.
20a North Street
Wareham
Dorset BH 20 4AG
Tel 01929 556870
Fax 01929 554729
Email; manager@aacuk.org.uk
Web Site; http://www.aacuk.org.uk

Page 24: Crevasse Rescue

Omitted from the sketch the preferred method of belay is the ice-axe reinforced Tee anchor.

Page 26: Mountain Rescue and Personal Insurance

The present value of OeAV insurance which comes with membership of UK Section of the Austrian Alpine Club is 22,000 Euros for rescue and 7,500 Euros for medical.

BMC Insurance. The note implies that BMC Insurance which forms part of that membership will cover participants whilst in Austria. This is incorrect and separate insurance needs to be taken out with the BMC for Alpine holidays in Austria if you are looking to purchase additional insurance over and above that provided by the Austrian Alpine Club.

Participants intending to visit the Stubai should also note that the EU E111 Health Care Plan is also valid in Austria but participants should note that this Health Care Plan will only cover you for the level of free health care available to Austrian nationals, it will not cover the cost of private medical care nor repatriation to the United Kingdom.

Page 39, 40, 41: Innsbrucker to the Bremer Hut

At the Lauterersee a choice of paths now exists.

Continue as described or follow the track which now links up with the path coming up from Feurstein and which continues as the Juliansteig to the Tribulaun Hut.

The development of this path has been brought about by the increasing popularity of the Gschnitztal Hohen Weg and omits scrambling through the fixed rope section as described in the guide book and is therefore a good alternative route in poor weather.

Dresdner to the Neue Regensberger Hut

Page 65. The congregation of many streams that flowed through the Wilde Grube have now been largely eliminated by the destructive construction work undertaken by the Stubai Galcier Company in providing more ski-ing areas around the Daunkogel.

Page 65. What remained of the Hochmoos Glacier at the foot of the Grawagrubenneider has now more or less gone. The ground is still strewn with rocks and remains a grotty place.

Page 83. The Stubai Glacier Tour. Hohen Weg

The concern with this tour is that the Stubai glaciers are in a stage of rapid decline through the effect of global warning and that getting on and off them is literally changing by the year.

There has also been some comment that the name of the tour is incorrect and that the Hohen Weg refers to the now popular Stubai Rucksack Route.

The name of the Glacier Tour is correct as the Stubai Hohen Weg but has been largely high jacked by the re-naming of the popular

Stubai Rucksack Route or the Stubai Rundtour as the Stubai Hohen Weg which is supported by the various leaflets issued by the tourist organisations and the huts themselves.

To avoid confusion if participants are asked which route they are doing it is the Stubai Glacier Hohen Weg with the emphasis being it’s a gletcher tour.