!!!Zillertaler Alpen

Zillertal Alps, Tyrol, strongly glaciated mountain range of the 
Central Alps between Birnluecke Pass (2,665 m) and Brenner Pass 
(1,370 m), consisting mainly of granite gneiss (central gneiss of 
the Ziller Valley core) and rocks from the slate cover of the Tauern 
mountain range ( Tauern Window); divided by the Ziller Valley - Zemm 
Valley - Zamser Grund Area - Pfitscher Joch Pass (2,246 m) furrow 
into the northern Tux ridge (with the peaks Olperer, 3,476 m, 
Schrammacher, 3,410 m, and Hoher Riffler, 3,231 m) and the 
southern Ziller ridge (with Hochfeiler peak, 3,509 m), which 
forms the Austrian - Italian border. In the east the Zillertal Alps 
adjoin the  Hohe Tauern Range; in the north they are separated from 
the  Kitzbuehel Alps by the Gerlos Valley - Gerlos Pass - Salzach 
Valley depression. South of Mayrhofen the "Gruende" ( Ziller 
Valley, Zemm Valley, Tux Valley) give access to the Zillertal Alps. 
The Zillertal Alps are a popular skiing area (Hintertux, Mayrhofen, 
Gerlos Valley) with the ropeways Gerlossteinbahn (Hainzenberg - 
Gerlossteinalm) and Ahornbahn (Mayrhofen - Filzenalm). Moreover, 
almost the whole surface of the Tux glacier is used for summer skiing 
and made accessible by the Zillertaler glacier ropeways. Valsertal 
Valley nature preserve. Zemm-Ziller power stations of the  
Tauernkraftwerke AG. Mountain refuges: Berliner Huette (2,042 m), 
Furtschaglhaus (2,293 m), Greizer Huette (2,227 m), Kasseler 
Huette (2,178 m), Tuxer-Ferner-Haus (2,605 m), Spannagelhaus 
(2,531 m), Friesenberghaus (2,477 m), Olpererhuette 
(2,388 m), etc.


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