The Mountain Hut Book
An introduction to mountain huts and refuges for walkers and trekkers. Informative and entertaining, this book explores the mountain hut experience, from how huts have developed to modern-day hut etiquette. With profiles of the author's top picks, and the best hut-to-hut routes in the Alps and Pyrenees.
OVERVIEW
This book is a celebration of mountain huts, showcasing the sheer variety and sometimes quirky nature of these buildings that allow walkers, trekkers and climbers to access remote corners of the mountains.
Packed with entertaining stories that bring the places and people to life, it contains descriptions of the author's favourite huts in the Alps, along with suggestions for hut-to-hut tours of 3-13 days duration, including the Tour of Mont Blanc. It also traces the history of huts and how they have evolved from the most primitive of shelters to the often purpose-built, eco-friendly buildings of today. For the uninitiated, it unravels some of the mystery of huts and explains how to use them and what facilities to expect. Above all, it illustrates the way in which mountain huts can be truly sociable places, where like-minded people can spend a night or two in the most magical of locations and share a love of wild places.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Rooms with a view
- Huts for all
- Huts for trekkers
- Huts for climbers
- Huts for watching wildlife
- Huts for walkers
- 2 Hut life
- House rules
- Sleeping and eating
- The hut guardian
- Paying for the privilege
- Not huts – Berghotels and gîtes d’étape
- 3 Top ten huts
- Cabane d’Arpitettaz
- Refuge des Bans
- Refuge de Bellachat
- Rifugio Bolzano/Schlernhaus
- Burg Hut
- Cabane des Dix
- Refuge Entre Deux Eaux
- Grutten Hut
- Rifugio Longoni
- Totalp Hut
- 4 Hut to hut
- Tour of the Vanoise
- Rätikon Höhenweg
- Tour of the Jungfrau Region
- Stubai High Level Route
- Tour of the Bernina
- Tour of Mont Blanc
- Tour of Val de Bagnes
- Tour of the Oisans: GR54
- Alta Via 2
- Tour of the Wilder Kaiser
- 5 Hovels to hotels
- Bivouacs, boulders and caves
- Loathsome dens
- The age of the mountain hut
- The overcrowded Alps
- Between the wars
- The future has arrived
- Alpine Clubs and their huts
- 6 Beyond the Alps – bothies, huts and lodges
- Andes
- Appalachians
- Atlas Mountains
- Canadian Rockies
- Caucasus
- Corsica
- Himalaya
- Picos de Europa
- Pyrenees
- Southern Alps
- Tatras
- Appendix A Useful contacts
- Appendix B Directory of alpine huts
- Appendix C Glossary for alpine trekkers
- Appendix D Further reading
OTHER INFORMATION
- ISBN: 9781852849283
- Published: 13 Apr 2018
- Edition: First
- Pages: 256
- Size: 21.00 x 14.80 x 1.40cm
- Weight: 460g
- Format: Paperback
- Authors: Kev Reynolds
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