Wetterspitzen
The Wetterspitzen are three of the rocky peaks on a mountain ridge in the Wetterstein mountains in the central part of the Eastern Alps in Germany. They lie two kilometres, as the crow flies, southwest of Germany's highest peak, the Zugspitze, on the border between the Austrian province of Tyrol and the German state of Bavaria. The Wetterspitzen form the southwest perimeter of the Zugspitze ledge ; below and to the east is the ski region on the Schneeferner with its research station, the Schneefernerhaus.
The three peaks are the:
- Northern Wetterspitze - high;
- Southern or Middle Wetterspitze - high;
- Eastern Wetterspitze - high.
Base
A possible base for climbing the Wetterspitzen is the SonnAlpin restaurant on the Zugspitze Ledge, the terminal station of the Bavarian Zugspitze Rack Railway.From the Zugspitze ledge :
- an easy climb, according to the literature, in half an hour to the Northern Wetterspitze.
- in two hours to the Middle Wetterspitze,
- in half an hour with any difficult sections to the Eastern Wetterspitze
In addition there are various climbing routes up to UIAA grade V, starting from west of Ehrwald.
