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Otztal Ski Tour: Hinter Schwarzenjoch from the Martin Busch Hut
Day 2: Day Tour up the Hinter Schwarzenjoch from the Martin Busch Hut.
Difficult Ski Touring
- Distance
- 13 km
- Ascent
- 1.3 km
- Descent
- 1.3 km
Day 3: Similaun summit and Otzis memorial visit, before descent to the Hochjoch Hospice
Ski Touring Difficult
This is a big day which can be shortened by missing out the summit, or even by doing the summit instead of the circular tour the day before. But in good weather and good fitness this is great day.
Skin up the valley floor from the hut, curving slowly up to the L onto and up the Niederjoch Glacier, which leads you to the foot of the NW ridge of Similaun. This is normally booted up for the final section, to the fine summit at 3606m.
Descend on the glacier past the Similaun Hut to the W, then below it to about 2920m, putting on skins for the climb up to the Otzi Iceman memorial cairn. Imagine how hard it would have been for him to get there 5000 years ago!
It is a short distance from here to the Hauslabjoch at 3279m. From here you are rewarded with a long N facing descent down to the Hochjoch Hospice at 2412m, down the glacier initially then bending to the L down the fall line and making sure you cross to the opposite side of the streambed for the final descent to the Hospice, above a gorge.
Difficult
Serious gradient of 30-38 degrees where a real risk of slipping exists.
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Day 2: Day Tour up the Hinter Schwarzenjoch from the Martin Busch Hut.
Difficult Ski Touring
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Day 5: Less horizontal distance today but a solid ascent to the Fluchtkogel summit, then down through a col to the Vernagt Hut
Difficult Ski Touring
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Day 4: Day Tour from the Hospice up one of several possible peaks
Difficult Ski Touring
6.6 km away
Day 1: A positioning day to the Martin Busch Hut
Moderate Ski Touring
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Day 6: The jewel in the Otztal crown, the Wildspitze summit day.
Difficult Ski Touring
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