17^Sep Sun
09:15

Route: Unterschächen Post – Seestelli - Gross Spitzen – Bödmer - Unterschächen Post

Additional info about the tour can be found here:

https://www.hikr.org/dir/Gross_Spitzen_5053/

Grade: T4, which means: Path not necessarily available. Sometimes need to use hands to keep going. Mostly exposed. Tricky grass heaps, rocky slopes, simple firn fields and snow covered glacier passages

Further details about the grade can be found on SAC website:

https://www.sac-cas.ch/fileadmin/Ausbildung_und_Wissen/Sicher_unterwegs/Sicher_unterwegs_Wandern/2020_Berg_Alpinwanderskala_EN.pdf

and also here:

https://www.bergfreunde.eu/alpine-grades-calculator/

Starting point and time: Unterschächen Post at 9:15

How to get there: by public transporation train IC2 to Lugano that leaves from Zürich HB at 7:05 then Train IR26 from Arth Goldau to Altdorf and then Bus 408 to Unterschächen Post

What to take: hiking equipment and clothes warm enough, proper shoes (hiking boots or trail running shoes), food, enough water, sunscreen, sunglasses, tick spray, rain jacket.

GPX track: please download it and then upload it on your mobile by using your preferred map app and make yourself familiar with the hike like if you have to do it on your own.

Pace: the plan is to have a pace of 500/600 m elevation gain per hour, please join only if you can keep this pace and you are comfortable doing a T4 hike.