Botzen-Gries and the Mendel Pass.- (Geuter's Illustrated Guide Books)
the German and Austrian Alpine Club, a comfortable hut, where 50 persons can be accommodated. An easy bridle-path which can be used by pede strians, leads from Vo Is (this village can be reached from Atzwang Station, or by a shorter road from Steg Station), across the Duftboden (Scented Bottom), and the Sessel (Easy Chair) Alpine Pasture, passing by the Ochsenhutte (Ox-Hut), in 4 hours and a half to the The Rosengarten. From a photograph by IV. Müller, Botzen. Schiern House. Another route leads
from Atzwang via Seis to Ratzes, and thence by the “Tourist Path” to the Hut which is situated 30 minutes below the summit. Guides from Vols there and back 5 K. The view from the Schiern is extraordinarily imposing, and embraces a large area*). The peaks and summits of the whole South and Central Tyrol, surround like a gigantic pano- *) Indicator of the Alps, published by the Botzen. Section of the German and Austrian Alpine Club, can be obtained in the Schlern House.