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Ötztal hiking badge

Reward for passionate hikers

If you have pins and needles in your legs already in the early morning when you wake up you've probably caught the walking badge fever. Not only children can proudly prove their excellent stamina with a hut stamp. Also adults like to check their huts and summits conquered during their hiking holiday in Gurgl. Therefore you can exchange your successful walking tours for the coveted hiking badge in gold, silver or bronze. No matter if you use the good old hiking pass or the digital form via smartphone, your personal hiking badge makes a truly wonderful souvenir of the mountain tours in Gurgl and Ötztal. Also the Glacier Pin ranks among the undisputed highlights when it comes to an Alpine summer vacation.

Get your personal medal

Ötztaler Hiking Needle Gold Alpinist

Ötztaler Hiking Pin Gold

16 Points

Destination: Gasthof Granstein, Breitlehnalm, Braunschweiger Hütte, Gasthof Geierwallihof, Stableinalm, Horlach-Almen, Berggasthof Schönblick, Acherberg Alm, Berggasthof Rofenhof / Alt Rofen, Rotkogelhütte, Bergrestaurant Sonnblick, Gaislachalm, Zirben Alm, Rettenbachalm, Lenzenalm, Schönwieshütte, …

Ötztaler Hiking Needle Silver Climber

Ötztaler Hiking Pin Silver

8 Points

Destination: Gasthof Granstein, Breitlehnalm, Braunschweiger Hütte, Gasthof Geierwallihof, Stableinalm, Horlach-Almen, Berggasthof Schönblick, Acherberg Alm, Berggasthof Rofenhof / Alt Rofen, Rotkogelhütte, Bergrestaurant Sonnblick, Gaislachalm, Zirben Alm, Rettenbachalm, Lenzenalm, Schönwieshütte, …

Ötztaler Hiking Needle Bronce Walker

Ötztaler Hiking Pin Bronze

3 Points

Destination: Gasthof Granstein, Breitlehnalm, Braunschweiger Hütte, Gasthof Geierwallihof, Stableinalm, Horlach-Almen, Berggasthof Schönblick, Acherberg Alm, Berggasthof Rofenhof / Alt Rofen, Rotkogelhütte, Bergrestaurant Sonnblick, Gaislachalm, Zirben Alm, Rettenbachalm, Lenzenalm, Schönwieshütte, …

Join in – this is how it works!

  • You get the Ötztal Hiking Badge in BRONZE if you conquer 3, the Ötztal Hiking Badge in SILVER if you conquer 8, the Ötztal Hiking Badge in GOLD if you conquer 16 hiking destinations with stamp sites in the Ötztal Alps.
  • The hiking badge is available from all Ötztal Tourismus Information Offices on presentation of the required number of hut stamps collected in the stamp book.
  • The hut stamps for the Ötztal Hiking Badge can be collected during several stays in Ötztal.
  • The hiking badges are free of charge!

The stamp sites in Gurgl

Wurmkogl, Königsjoch, Aperes Ferwalljoch, Gaisbergferner, Rotmoosferner, Seelenferner, Hangerer, Langtalerferner, Lehnerkar, Gurgler Schartl, Nedersee, Zirmkogl and at all mountain huts and Alpine inns that are open in summer.

A complete list is available here:

App

Collect digital hiking stamps

Instead of carrying the good old hiking pass made of paper, you can now receive the Ötztal Hiking Badge also via your smartphone. All you need is our free Ötztal APP - which comprises the digital hiking book and at the same time your digital stamp book.

It's that easy:
download the Ötztal APP, register, collect points within the entire Ötztal Alps and exchange your digital Hiking Badges in BRONZE, SILVER and GOLD for real pins at all Ötztal Tourismus Information Offices.

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Glacier pin

Experienced mountaineers destined for higher things can set themselves a symbolic goal by achieving the Glacier Pin. All those who hold them in their hands have proven endurance, stamina, surefootedness and high Alpine knowhow. For the Glacier Pin the following stamps must be collected:

  • Königsjoch 2825 m
  • Seelenferner 2900 m
  • Verwalljoch 2903 m
  • Langtalferner 2480 m
  • Gaisbergferner 2500 m
  • Lehnerkar 2550 m
  • Rotmoosferner 2700 m
  • Gurgler Scharte 2930 m
  • Hangerer 3021 m
  • Nedersee 2441 m

Afterwards the Glacier Pin can be purchased for € 2.90 (last update: spring 2019) at the Information Obergurgl.