Mountain tour to the Cima Matatz peak

Our little mountain tour starts at the parking space above the hamlet of Ulvas near Moso in Passiria (Moos in Passeier). Along the wide forested trail, we walk to the lower Ulvas Mountain Hut (Ulfaser Alm). This is where actually the ascent to the little peak starts. Via a rather easy path, leading across steps through the forest and height towards the tree line (signpost 2B). This is how we reach the eastern ridge of the Tessa Group, and only 200 m of altitude difference are left to be overcome to reach the summit cross. (2,180 m a.s.l.).

Even if the weather is not the best, the view is astonishing. In the north we can admire the main Alpine divide with the Oetztal Alps, the Stubai Alps and the Zillertal Alps, in the south east there are the Sarentino Alps and in the south west, the mountains of the Trentino, the Brenta and the Ortles Alps strike our eyes. You can also look down to the valley, from the Passo del Rombo to Stulles and from Passo del Giovo to San Leonardo and San Martino, for example.

For the return, we take the same route, but we shorten the trail via the Schartalm alpine pasture. Slightly lower, at the lower Ulvas Mountain Hut, we stop for a snack, before we finally walk back on the parking space. Mt. Cima Matatz (Matatzspitz) might be a modest peak, but it's a great feeling to have conquered and scaled the mountain and to admire the surroundings from the top!

Author: AT