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20-642: The Alpine Club classification of the Eastern Alps (AVE) calls this range the Tux Alps. The name Tux Prealps was declared in the 1984 edition of the AVE as outdated and not longer applicable. The reality is that the mountain range can hardly be described as "prealps" in view of their sheer extent and height. The description only makes any sense when the range is seen in the context of the Zillertal Alps to

40-775: A greater profile than many of the other trails officially established and maintained by states or rambling clubs. The 9th day leg of the dream trail runs from Hall in Tirol up to the Glungezer Hut ; the next stage over the seven tuxer summits and the Naviser Jöchl to the Lizumer Hut which is operated by the Austrian Alpine Club section at Hall. The 10th and 11th days run from the Lizumer Hut to

60-544: A popular ski touring and hiking area. Its ski resorts are Glungezer, Lizum im Wattental, Hochfügen-Hochzillertal , Penken and Kellerjoch, Patscherkofel. The Patscherkofel mountain was a venue for the 1964 and 1976 Winter Olympics held in nearby Innsbruck . The largest part of the Tux Alps comprises low grade metamorphic rocks, that are classified as part of the Innsbruck quartz-phyllite complex (quartzitic phyllite slate). Next to this zone of Paleozoic rocks to

80-809: Is 3,798 m (12,461 ft) high. Another 22 groups reach a height of 3,000 metres. The only group in the Northern Limestone Alps with a three-thousander is the Lechtal Alps , whose highest summit is the Parseierspitze at 3,036 m (9,961 ft). 39 groups are over 2000 metres high. Seven of the groups exceed 1000 metres—except for the Vienna Woods , whose highest mountain, the Schöpfl , just reaches an altitude of 893 m (2,930 ft). See List of mountain groups in

100-706: Is also used for the basic numbering of Alpine Club maps for mountaineering . The Eastern Alps are divided into four main areas: the Northern Limestone Alps , the Central Eastern Alps , the Southern Limestone Alps , and the Western Limestone Alps . These four main ranges are further divided into 75 sub-groups. The Northern Limestone and Central Eastern Alps are the largest with 27 groups each, while

120-650: Is the red trail, whose termini are in Trieste and Monaco . The Via Alpina was created by a group of public and private organisations from the 8 Alpine countries in 2000, receiving EU funding from 2001 until 2008. It was initiated by the Association Grande Traversée des Alpes in Grenoble , which hosted the Via Alpina international secretariat until January 2014, when it was transferred to

140-726: The International Commission for the Protection of the Alps CIPRA (Liechtenstein). There are national secretariats (hosted by public administrations or hiking associations) in each country. Its aim is to support sustainable development in remote mountain areas and promote the Alpine cultures and cultural exchanges. The Via Alpina green trail follows the Swiss National Route no. 1 (previously known as

160-932: The Sobretta - Gavia range were grouped into the Southern Limestone Alps though, geologically, they are north of the Periadriatic Seam and ranked part of the Austroalpine nappes . The Eastern Alps extend across six European countries: Germany , Italy , Liechtenstein , Austria , Switzerland and Slovenia . With 57 mountain groups, Austria has the largest share. It is followed by Italy with 23 and Switzerland with ten. There are seven mountain ranges in Germany and four in Slovenia. Liechtenstein shares one group. The only four-thousander and

180-864: The Tuxer Joch Haus , then over the Pluderling Saddle and the Gschützspitze Saddle. Other long-distance trails in the Tux Alps are the Eagle Way ( Adlerweg ), the Via Alpina (red), Olympic Way ( Olympiaweg ), Glungezer & Geier Way No. 335 ( Glungezer&Geier-Weg 335 ), and Central Alpine Way No. 02a. The following Alpine Club huts are located in the Tux Alps: Alpenvereinseinteilung der Ostalpen The Alpine Club classification of

200-768: The 1926 Partizione delle Alpi . In 2005, a new proposal was made by the Italian Alpinist, Sergio Marazzi, to merge the competing systems of the Alpine states into the Suddivisione Orografica Internazionale Unificata del Sistema Alpino ( SOIUSA ), but this has not gained a general acceptance. Via Alpina The Via Alpina is a network of five long-distance hiking trails across the alpine regions of Slovenia , Austria , Germany , Liechtenstein , Switzerland , Italy , France , and Monaco . The longest of trails

220-776: The Alpine Club classification of the Eastern Alps Up to today, there is no internationally accepted classification of the Alps. Beside the common AVE arrangement, the Swiss Alpine Club subdivides the Swiss Alps (including the East Alpine parts) along cantonal boundaries, while Austrian hydrography uses a slightly different orographic system. In Italy and France the segmentation is usually based on

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240-691: The Eastern Alps ( German : Alpenvereinseinteilung der Ostalpen , AVE ) is a common division of the Eastern Alps into 75 mountain ranges , based on the Moriggl Classification (ME) first published in 1924 by the German and Austrian Alpine Club . The present-day division established for the German-speaking world (less Switzerland ) was compiled by the German , Austrian and South Tyrol Alpine Clubs and published in 1984 and

260-775: The Inn upstream as far as Mayrhofen . In the south the Tuxertal valley outlines the range from Mayrhofen to Hintertux. From there the boundary continues up to the saddle of the Tuxer Joch and through the Schmirntal valley to Sankt Jodok . To the west the Tux Alps are bounded by the Wipptal valley from Sankt Jodok downstream to Innsbruck. The Tuxer Joch saddle links the Tux Alps to the Zillertal Alps. The Tux Alps are

280-642: The Southern Limestone Alps have 15. The six groups of the Western Limestone Alps are also classed with the Central Eastern Alps. The classification is based principally on orographic considerations and takes into account the regional usage in terms of the names of the mountain groups. The amendments of 1984 address a number of geological problems and have dropped many of the 1924 Morrigl groups, making more precise sub-divisions for them in other areas. These changes are evident from

300-493: The Upper Eastern Alpine greywacke zone , which consists of Paleozoic rocks. Silver and copper were once extensively mined in this zone in the area around Schwaz. The long-distance hiking trail known as the "Munich to Venice Dream Path" ( Traumpfad München-Venedig ) runs through the Tux Alps. This is not an official long-distance trail . Nevertheless, the route, which was first proposed in 1977, has achieved

320-617: The former ocean bed, in the shape of serpentinite that make up the Lizumer Reckner. The southern perimeter of the Tux Alps belongs to the tectonically deeper-lying Penninic Hohe Tauern window . Here in the Tux Alps these are mainly rocks of the Penninic Glockner Nappe (calc-schist envelope of the Tauern). The northeasternmost corner of the Tux Alps, from the area of Schwaz to Fügen im Zillertal , belongs to

340-834: The highest mountain in the Eastern Alps is the Piz Bernina at 4,046 m (13,274 ft). Thus the Bernina Range is the highest of all the groups in the Eastern Alps. Next are the Ortler Alps , whose highest peak, Mt. Ortler at 3,905 m (12,812 ft), is the highest mountain in South Tyrol. The third highest range is the Glockner Group with the highest mountain in Austria: the Grossglockner

360-613: The missing serial numbers and sub-division letters. The Western Limestone Alps were added, an area which is not covered by the three Alpine Clubs and actually is a continuation of the Southern and Swiss Alps . Unlike the previous scheme, the Salzburg Slate Alps were assigned to the Northern Limestone Alps as they are part of the greywacke zone that forms the basement of the Limestone Alps. The Ortler Alps and

380-564: The south there is a localised zone of various Mesozoic rocks, the so-called Tarntal Mesozoic . This complex zone belongs, like the quartz-phyllite zone, to the tectonic unit of the Lower Eastern Alps. Amongst the rocks of Tarntal Mesozoic may be found dolomite and limestones that are the basis of rock faces ( Kalkwand and Torwand ) in the area of the Wattentaler Lizum. On the other hand, there are also elements of

400-561: The south, which are considerably higher than the Tux Alps and permanently covered in glaciers. The Tux Alps are surrounded by the following other ranges in the Alps: To the north the lower Inn valley forms the boundary of this range from Innsbruck downstream to the Inn's confluence with the Ziller . The Ziller valley (Zillertal) borders the range in the east from the mouth of the Ziller on

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