12^Jul Sat
09:00

This is a carpool hike. Please read carefully instructions for the hike and don´t just click on coming. If you join without being in a car, you will be removed from the hike.

CARPOOL

Schedule: Hike starts at 9,00 am. 

Drivers: add your car in carpool and put meeting point and time for it.

Passengers: Click on Carpool button. Read carefully all information about the car you join, check if there are any specific instructions. All the costs for the trip will be shared with people in the same car. Meeting point is decided by the driver, this information is in the "Carpool" button.

5) please be punctual. Train couild be packed and would be nice to sit together!

Croda rossa or Rotbachlspitze (2897m) is a geological gem with a colorful summit structure with magnificent views of the Hochfeiler and Ortler groups, the Stubai and Ötztal Alps, and of course, South Tyrol. The summit region is a colorful geological wonder!

From the parking lot at Schlegeisspeicher, we head west on the path to the Unterschrammach cirque. After just half an hour, we find ourselves in a beautiful little high valley along the Unterschrammach stream with fantastic views of the Schammacher, Fußstein, and Olperer. We climb another step to the Hinterboden at approximately 2,300 m, another flat basin with a few small lakes. The high trail from the Olperer Hut joins here, and the ascent to the Alpeiner Scharte branches off. We choose the third alternative and ascend westward to the Pfitscherjoch, which is marked on the signpost as a 3-hour hike with a black dot. While there were a few hikers on the way to Hinterboden, it now becomes lonely until shortly before the Pfitscherjoch. We first climb steeply up the Unterschrammach cirque to approximately 2,400 m in switchbacks before leaving the cirque on a beautiful high trail. Far below, the turquoise Schlegeis reservoir and the Zamser Grund lake shimmer, where the many parked cars glitter in the sun. The trail continues leisurely beneath the rocky shoulder known as the Ameiskopf into the wide Oberschrammach cirque, which we now cross at almost the same elevation. Along the way, we cross the Oberschrammachbach stream, which resembles a long, polished stone slide. Countless markers, barrier tape, and information signs guide us uphill a bit, allowing us to easily cross the stream in the scree-covered section. After leaving the Oberschrammach cirque, the landscape changes, and we enter the gentler, grassy area of ​​the Pfitscherjoch pass. Opposite, we can already see the summit destination, the Rotbachlspitze, with its long western ridge, which we then ascend. We now lose about 150 meters of elevation to the Pfitscherjoch, which we reach after 2.5 hours. Several small lakes are on our way creating a lovely landscape really. We start our ascent to the Rothbachlspitz, turning east about 200 meters before the Pfitscher-Hoch-Haus (north of it) and climbing, exactly on the border between North and South Tyrol, through meadows and over the gentle western ridge to the Rotbachlspitze. The climb to the scree-covered summit slope is relatively easy and hardly exposed. Here, too, the path is easy and the slope is not dangerous. However, it gets steeper and steeper, and the trail builders have been extremely stingy with switchbacks. So we climb the increasingly steep slope directly to the top, in places. The sandy and scree-covered ground is easily accessible, and we make good progress. Finally, we reach the summit of the Rotbachlspitze (2897 m). The views are impressive. Above all, the Hochferner massif to our south, with its dark rocky ridges and the glacier flowing down into them, has an almost Western Alpine feel. To the north, the entire Tux main ridge reveals itself in all its beauty and south Tirol the other side.

The descent begins on the same path back to the Pfitscher Joch. We stop for a rewarding break at Pfitscher Joch Haus. There, we turn right and descend along the uneven forest road to the Zamserbach stream, which meanders heavily here on the flat terrain. From here, we continue to the Lavitzalm andfurther through the Zamser Grund directly to the Schlegeis reservoir, having always open views to it. A very nice end of the hike.