Reither Spitze

<h2 id="ascent">Ascent</h2>
<p>The summit of the Reither Spitze may be reached in a 20-minute climb from the <a href="/facts/N%C3%B6rdlinger_Hut/usGXA6mf">Nördlinger Hut</a> to the south.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> The Nördlinger Hut is an hour's walk from the top station of the cable car on the <a href="/facts/H%C3%A4rmelekopf/jV3n1INY">Härmelekopf</a>; from the Härmelekopf one can also ascend the Reither Spitze directly via the Reither Joch (<a href="/facts/Sure-footedness/VTkLIyfx">sure-footedness</a> required). An ascent from <a href="/facts/Reith_bei_Seefeld/VFEKyjer">Reith bei Seefeld</a> or <a href="/facts/Seefeld_in_Tirol/DAw0sB6W">Seefeld</a> takes about three hours. From the <a href="/facts/Seefelder_Spitze/1banYuqr">Seefelder Spitze</a>, the Reither Spitze may be reached on an easy path (sure-footedness required) or directly along the connecting <a href="/facts/Ar%C3%AAte/8S225GYE">arête</a>, a routed graded at <a href="/facts/Climbing_grade/1lMDzC54">UIAA level III difficulty</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a>
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<h2 id="geology">Geology</h2>
<p>The summit of the Reither Spitze and the arête of the Seefelder Spitze (2,221 <a href="/facts/Metres_above_the_Adriatic/efrTKSr2">m (AA)</a>) are made of <a href="/facts/Main_dolomite/cu4MwnF6">main dolomite</a> rock. This zone of the upper main dolomite is surrounded by a ring-shaped zone of oil-bearing and partly <a href="/facts/Fossil/by7NzIA1">fossil</a>-bearing Seefeld beds.  As a result of fish fossils, the oil-bearing slate from this region is also called Ichthyol Slate after the <a href="/facts/Greek_language/pzDd6eIz">Old Greek</a> word for fish, <i>ichthys (ἰχθύς)</i>. These rocks were quarried in various places around the Reither Spitze for the extraction of  <a href="/facts/Ammonium_bituminosulphonate/eDcn7y3P">Ichthyol</a>. The main quarry area was at the foot of the Reither Spitze southeast of Seefeld in the area of the <i>Reither Jochalm</i>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a>
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 The Seefelder Joch, <a href="/facts/Seefelder_Spitze/1banYuqr">Seefelder Spitze</a>, <a href="/facts/H%C3%A4rmelekopf/jV3n1INY">Härmelekopf</a>, Reither Spitze and <a href="/facts/Rauenkopf/3EJ0smSz">Rauenkopf</a>. Foreground: Seefeld
 Panorama of the Austrian mountain peaks Härmelekopf and Reither Spitze. View from Wildsee, Seefeld, Tirol.

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li> Media related to Reither Spitze at Wikimedia Commons</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Heinrich Klier, Fritz März: Alpenvereinsführer Karwendelgebirge, Verlag Rudolf Rother, 12th edn., Munich, 1984, ISBN 3-7633-1200-5, p. 136. <a href="/wiki/Bergverlag_Rother" target="_blank">/wiki/Bergverlag_Rother</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Heinrich Klier, Fritz März: Alpenvereinsführer Karwendelgebirge, Verlag Rudolf Rother, 11th edn., Munich, 1978, ISBN 3-7633-1208-0, p. 131. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Kartierungsbericht der Geologischen Bundesanstalt, as at 14 March 2009 (pdf; 243 kB) <a href="http://www.geologie.ac.at/filestore/download/JB1313_435_B.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.geologie.ac.at/filestore/download/JB1313_435_B.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Geologische Karte der Republik Österreich 1:50,000, Sheet 117 Zirl, Geologische Bundesanstalt, Vienna, 1992. <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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