AxEvent 2007
Preview and first informations
In september 2005 i spent 3 days in the Chamanna Varusch with my mother and my girlfriend Gaby. We had two big hikes and one long walk, so I know the hut and the surroundings quite well.
There are mountains up to 3.146 m, the highest to reach (realistically) is the Piz Chaschauna with 3.070 m.
The Hut
Val Trupchun
Fuorcla Val Sassa
Pass Caschauna
Google maps says:
480 km (4 hours, 55 minutes)
From the parking place to the chamanna we will have to walk about 30 minutes.
The baggage can be transported by a horse-drawn carriage
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Chamanna Varusch
The Chamanna Varusch lies on a height of 1.771 m. It has 40 sleeping places, 34 of them are so called "Lager" - most of us know them from Austria - AxEvent 2005, 6 are beds in 3 rooms.
The Lager are in a seperate building with a washing room (cold water only) but as a highligt of massive comfort: in the hut there is one shower!
The hut is hosted by a landlady, Mrs Wiesler, phone:
+41 (0)81 854 31 22
Communication
There is only a minimum of electricity in the hut: a generator, that is turned on only for cooking. Mobile reception exists outside the hut, mobiles can be loaded by the hut's landlady when she goes down to the valley.
Breakfast
For breakfast there will be coffe, tea, bread, butter and marmalade, we also can order some cheese, honey and ham.
Lunch
We will recieve lunch packs for the day
Dinner
With fine weather we will have dinner on the terrace with mountain view. Saturday there will be barbecue.
Surroundings
Even from the hut's "garden" you can see lots of animals like deers and groundhogs. There are medows to relaxe and a small mountain torrent (Ova da Varusch) to have fun just beneath the hut.
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The Chamanna Varusch lies close to th Swiss National Park in the Val Trupchun. The Park begins a few meters behind the Chamanna up the Val Trupchun. Val Trupchun is the valley with the most wild animals all over europe.
On friday we can book a guided tour to the Val Trupchun, where we can see deers, groundhogs, chamois, eagles, capricorns and lots of other animals, living in the alps.
More informations to the Swiss National Park you find here:http://www.nationalpark.ch
More Impressions from a trip to the Fuorcla Val Sassa, a 2.857 m high pass within the Swiss National Park here...
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The Fuorcla Val Sassa is a 2.857 m high pass beneath the Piz Quattervals, one of the most significant peaks around. It's in the Swiss National Park - we met a group of about 15 capricorns on our way up there, which let us aproach them up to about 10 meters.
From the fuorcla you have a very impressive view. This is one of the possible tours for our second day.
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Another possible tour for the second day is a trip to the Pass Chaschauna, lying on the border to Italy. We met lot's of Mountain bikers there, carrying their bikes up to 2.694 m.
From there we can get up to Punta Cassana with 3.007 m (hard trip) or to Piz Caschauna with 3.070 m (very hard trip).
