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Hiking tour Piz Chavalatsch

Stamina
Technique
Experience
Landscape
Difficulty:
Easy
Distance: 21.1 km
Ascent: 2704 m Descent: 1194 m
Duration:05:15 h
Lowest point:1219 m
Highest point:2763 m
Best season
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Short description

The Piz Chavalatsch is considered the mountain with the best views in the Vinschgau Valley and lies between the Münstertal Valley and the Trafoier Valley.

Description

There are hundreds of hiking opportunities and mountain tours around Taufers in the Münstertal valley. One of these is the Piz Chavalatsch, which is quite easy and straightforward to reach.

Starting point of the tour

Taufers in the Münstertal

Destination point of the tour

Piz Chavalatsch

Route description

From Taufers in the Münstertal valley, first take the car via Prad to Stilfs and via the hamlet of Platz to the Fraggs farm and then to the game reserve. Park there. From the game reserve, follow the mountain road on foot, turn right onto path 2 and continue through the Platzwald forest and over the slopes to the Untere and Obere Stilfser Alm.
From there, take path 5 and follow the many hairpin bends to the summit of Piz Chavalatsch. The descent either follows the ascent route or from the summit eastwards over the ridge and across the pasture slopes of the Ochsenberg to the Stilfser Alm and back to the starting point.

Trail sign

2, 5

Equipment

Hiking boots, wind and rain protection, sunglasses

Public transport

Trains stop at the railway stations of Bozen, Meran and Mals

Directions

Brenner motorway A22, exit Bozen Süd, MEBO motorway to Meran, Vinschgau state road SS38, direction Taufers im Münstertal

Parking

Hof Fraggs car park

Tip by the author

Type of trail

Length 21.1 km

Author

Editorial office south-tirol.com

Vinschgau

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