!!!Lechtaler Alpen

Lechtal Alps, about 60 km long, 20 km wide closed mountain 
range of the Northern Limestone Alps covering an area of 
1,000 km%%sup 2/% in Tirol and Vorarlberg; boundaries are the 
Lech valley in the north, the Stanzer Tal and Inn valleys in the 
south, the Fern pass in the east and Flexen pass in the west (the 
western part beginning at the Flexen pass, is completely situated in 
Vorarlberg and called Klostertal Alps or Lechquellen Mountains). 
Parseierspitze mountain (3,036 m), only mountain with an altitude 
over 3,000 m in the Northern Limestone Alps. Other peaks: Wetterspitze 
(2,895 m), Freispitze (2,884 m), Grosse Schlenkerspitze 
(2,827 m), Valluga 2,809 m (mountain on the boundary between 
Tirol and Vorarlberg), Muttekopf (2,774 m) and Heiterwand 
(2,638 m). The 3 highest pass roads of the entire Northern 
Limestone Alps, Hahntennjoch (1,894 m), Arlberg pass 
(1,793 m) and Flexen pass (1,773 m), cross the Lechtal Alps. 
Very attractive hiking area; famous skiing resort in the west (in the 
area of Arlberg and Flexen pass). Mountain refuges: Muttekopfhuette 
1,934 m (oldest mountain refuge in the Lechtal Alps), Stuttgarter 
Huette (2,305 m), Ansbacher Huette (2,376 m), Memminger 
Huette (2,242 m).


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