As of: 1 August 2026

Wild camping on the Hundstein: nobody can fine you here, and nobody sleeps on a rock summit

Q: Is wild camping allowed on the Hundstein?

Nothing here fines you, and we still say no. Art. 4 of the Appenzell Innerrhoden Campingverordnung (GS 935.610) permits the occasional single tent outside licensed campsites and ties it to the landowner's consent. The penalty articles were repealed in 2005, the cantonal fixed-penalty schedule contains no camping entry, and the pin sits outside every federal ban zone, so there is no fine. Our reason for advising against it is the ground: the Hundstein is the highest peak of the Alpstein at 2'157 metres, a rock tower reached by T5 to T6 scrambling with a climbing chimney, dropping about 700 metres to the Fälensee, and there is no flat, dry, safe ground to pitch a tent at the top. It is a peak you climb, not one you sleep on.

Q: Is there a fine for wild camping in Appenzell Innerrhoden?

No. The Campingverordnung's penalty articles, arts. 11 to 15, were repealed on 31 October 2005 and nothing replaced them, and the cantonal fixed-penalty ordinance (GS 311.010) has no camping, tent or bivouac entry. What you can be fined for is other conduct: littering, night noise, a drone anywhere in the Alpstein, and leaving the marked path inside a cantonal wildlife-rest area in the closed season. Sleeping itself is not tariffed. The federal CHF 150 fixed penalty for a tent applies only inside the Säntis game reserve, and the Hundstein summit is about 1'586 metres outside it, so it does not apply here.

Q: Can you pitch a tent on the summit of the Hundstein?

No, and not because it is illegal. The summit is a dominant rock tower, the highest point of the Alpstein at 2'157 metres, reached by scrambling. The standard route is T3 to T4+ with short climbing and steep scree, the direct routes are T5 to T6 with a grade I to II climbing chimney, and the south face drops about 700 metres to the Fälensee. There is no reliable flat, dry, safe ground at the top that would take a tent, and pitching on exposed rock beside a 700-metre drop is a hazard, not a camp. Any real camp near the Hundstein is on the alp pasture below, at the Widderalp or the Fählenalp, which is a different place from the summit.

Q: Is the Hundstein inside the federal game reserve?

No, the summit is about 1'586 metres outside it. The Säntis game reserve, object 16, is the hard line in this massif, and inside it art. 5 para. 1 lit. e VEJ (SR 922.31) bans a tent outright with a CHF 150 fixed penalty under annex 2 no. 12005 of the federal fixed-penalty ordinance. But a point-in-polygon test puts the Hundstein summit outside the reserve, with the nearest boundary about 1'586 metres west-south-west towards the Rotsteinpass. A loose query with a large tolerance can return the reserve as a false positive because the summit is near the boundary; read carefully, at tolerance zero, the pin is cleanly outside, so that ban does not apply on the Hundstein.

Q: Where should I sleep if I want to climb the Hundstein?

At a hut, and climb it by day. The natural base is Berggasthaus Rotsteinpass at 2'124 metres, about 1.6 kilometres south-west, on +41 71 799 11 41 or info@rotsteinpass.ch, open roughly June to October, and Berggasthaus Bollenwees at the Fälensee is the other side. If you want a camp rather than a hut, it belongs on the alp pasture below with the alp's consent under art. 4, at the Widderalp or the Fählenalp, not on the summit. A word-of-mouth alp fee of roughly CHF 7 to 15 to the Senn is reported for camping on alp pasture in this massif, but it is unpublished and not a posted rate, so treat it as hearsay and settle it with one phone call.

Appenzell Innerrhoden cannot fine you for sleeping outside, and the pin sits outside every federal ban zone. This is still one of the places we tell you not to, because the point is the top of a rock tower you scramble up, not ground you can lie down on.

Leon Helg · Legal situation checked in August 2026 · Published 1 August 2026

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Illegal Not allowed It depends Tolerated Legal

What do these mean?

Illegal A specific rule bans it, usually with a fine, and it can be enforced. Sleep somewhere else.

Not allowed No real place to camp here. A gated site, a developed area, or nowhere sensible to lie down, even if no fine is attached.

It depends You can sleep here, but there's a condition first: ask the landowner, book a spot, stay inside a set zone, or use a bivvy instead of a tent. The report says which.

Tolerated No rule clearly allows or bans it, but a single night is accepted in practice and nobody enforces against it. Normal for high bivouacs above the treeline.

Legal Camping one night is fine here. Either a rule allows it, or we checked every law and found nothing against it. Still: pitch late, leave early, no trace.

In short, as of August 2026

Nothing here can fine you. Appenzell's camping ordinance allows the occasional single tent outside licensed sites and ties it to the landowner's consent, and its penalty articles were repealed in 2005. The cantonal fixed-penalty schedule has no camping, tent or bivouac entry, so there is no cantonal camping fine at all. And the pin sits outside every federal ban zone: no game reserve, no wildlife-rest zone, no moor.¹²

The reason is the ground, not the law. The Hundstein is the highest peak of the Alpstein at 2'157 metres, a dominant jagged rock tower. The standard route is T3 to T4+ with short climbing and steep scree, the direct routes are T5 to T6 with a grade I to II climbing chimney, and the summit is exposed rock reached by scrambling, dropping about 700 metres to the Fälensee. There is no flat, dry, safe ground to pitch a tent at the top.⁶⁷

Above the treeline, yes. Campable at the pin, no. At 2'157 metres you are well above the local treeline, so the usual "below the treeline" objection does not apply here. But you do not pitch on a rock summit. Any real camp is on the alp pasture below, at the Widderalp to the north or the Fählenalp to the south-east, and that is a tip, not the point we publish. For the summit itself the honest answer is: sleep at a hut and climb it by day.⁷⁹

What "wild camping" means here: one night. A small tent or a bivvy bag, up towards evening, gone in the morning. Not a base camp, not a camper van. Most Swiss bans are written against camping; whether a single night also falls under them depends on the exact wording, so this article checks that wording. The full difference: wild camping vs bivouacking.

The Appenzell rule, and why the law is not what stops you here

Wild camping on the Hundstein starts from the same permissive position as everywhere in Appenzell Innerrhoden, and then the verdict is decided by the mountain rather than the statute book. This is one of the very few Swiss cantons where camping outside a licensed site is regulated but not punished, and the operative provision is a single paragraph from 1973.

"Das gelegentliche Aufstellen von einzelnen Wohnwagen und Zelten ausserhalb bewilligter Campingplätze darf die Dauer eines Monats pro Jahr nicht überschreiten und ist an die Zustimmung des betreffenden Grundeigentümers gebunden."Campingverordnung (GS 935.610), art. 4: the occasional erection of individual caravans and tents outside licensed campsites may not exceed one month a year and is tied to the consent of the landowner concerned.

Two things follow at once. The route is the landowner's yes, and here that is a legal requirement rather than etiquette. And the article governs the erection of a caravan or a tent, so a tentless bivouac, which erects nothing, is not caught by art. 4 at all. No Appenzell enactment in force uses the word Biwakieren anywhere.¹

There is no fine. The ordinance's penalty articles, arts. 11 to 15, were each repealed on 31 October 2005, which is recorded in the ordinance's own table of amendments. The cantonal fixed-penalty ordinance (GS 311.010) does exist, and it carries no camping, tent or bivouac entry at all, so there is no fixed penalty for sleeping out either. Appenzell Innerrhoden is one of the cantons where nothing in cantonal law can fine you for a single night outside.²

At the pin, no federal ban zone reaches you either. The federal game reserve, the wildlife-rest-zone and the moor layers all come back empty at the summit. That matters, because inside the Säntis game reserve a tent is banned outright and the on-the-spot penalty is CHF 150 under annex 2 no. 12005 of the federal fixed-penalty ordinance. But the Hundstein summit is about 1'586 metres outside that reserve, so its ban and its penalty do not bite here. The only federal designation the point does carry is the landscape inventory object 1612 "Säntisgebiet", which binds authorities under art. 6 NHG and imposes no rule on a camper.³⁴

So on paper a one-night tent would be legally permissible here, with the landowner's consent under art. 4. There is no cantonal fine, no ban zone at the pin, and the consent route is open. That is the whole legal picture, and it is why this is not a "forbidden" verdict. But nobody pitches a tent on a rock summit, and that is where the honest part begins.

The commune adds nothing. Bezirk Schwende-Rüte publishes no Polizeireglement and no Campingreglement that would create a conduct rule for a walker sleeping out, and the reservation in art. 4 for special district enactments is empty here. The rule that stops you on the Hundstein is not written in any book. It is written in the shape of the summit.

The mountain decides this one: a peak you climb, not one you sleep on

Start with the question that actually decides this, and it is not a legal question. If sleeping here were entirely lawful, and it very nearly is, would anybody put a sleeping bag down on this exact ground? The answer is no, because there is almost no ground. The Hundstein is the highest peak of the Alpstein at 2'157 metres, and it is not a broad summit dome. It is a dominant rock tower, a jagged furrowed group that mountaineers describe as a shark fin, and the top is exposed rock reached by scrambling.⁶⁷

The routes tell you what the summit is. The standard ascent is graded T3 to T4+ with short passages of climbing and steep scree, and the direct lines are T5 to T6 with a climbing chimney at grade I to II. The south face drops about 700 metres straight to the Fälensee. There is no reliable flat, dry, safe patch at the summit that would take a tent, and pitching on exposed rock a few metres from a 700-metre drop is not wild camping, it is a hazard. This is the whole verdict in one line: above the treeline yes, campable at the pin no.⁶

The treeline objection does not apply here, which is worth saying plainly. At 2'157 metres the Hundstein is well above the local treeline, which in this marginal part of the Alps sits somewhere around 1'700 to 1'900 metres. So this is not one of our "below the treeline, you are a nuisance" cases. It is the opposite failure mode: high, open, above the trees, and still impossible to camp on, because the ground at the pin is a summit and not a shelf.⁷

Where a real camp would go, and why it is not the pin. Anyone who genuinely wants to sleep high near the Hundstein does it on the surrounding alp pasture, not on the summit. The Widderalp lies to the north and north-east, the Fählenalp to the south-east above the Fälensee, and both are grazed alp ground with a resident dairy in season. That is where a consented camp belongs, under art. 4 with the alp's yes. But better ground on the alp below is a tip, and it is never the verdict for the point we publish. The point we publish is the summit, and the summit is a climb.⁹

Who to ask, if you are asking, and where. Not for the summit, which nobody camps on, but for the pasture below. The base pastures are the Widderalp, held by the Alpgenossenschaft Widderalp, and the Fählenalp, run by the family of Silvia and Sepp Inauen-Bollhalder, the same Fählenalp tenant in our Fälensee case. The reachable doors on the way up are Berggasthaus Rotsteinpass at 2'124 metres, about 1.6 kilometres south-west, on +41 71 799 11 41 or info@rotsteinpass.ch, open roughly June to October, and Berggasthaus Bollenwees at the Fälensee. No fixed fee is established. A word-of-mouth alp fee, roughly CHF 7 to 15 to the Senn if you camp on their pasture, is reported for this massif, but it is unpublished and not a posted tariff, so do not present it as a fixed rate, and the amounts we carry for the Seealpsee and the Fälenalp belong to different arrangements on different ground.⁹

The honest summary for the summit itself is short. Sleep at a hut, the Rotsteinpass or Bollenwees, and climb the Hundstein by day. That is what the mountain is for. A tent on the top is not a camp, it is a fall waiting for the wind.⁶

What the map shows, and what it does not

The pin sits outside every ban zone, and that is a positive read of the layers. At the summit the federal game reserve, wildlife-rest-zone and moor layers all return empty. We checked the Säntis game reserve, object 16, in particular, because in this massif it is the one hard line: the nearest boundary lies about 1'586 metres west-south-west of the summit, and a point-in-polygon test puts the summit inside the reserve at False. So the outright tent ban of art. 5 para. 1 lit. e VEJ and its CHF 150 fixed penalty, which apply inside that reserve, do not apply at the Hundstein. The only federal hit is the landscape inventory, object 1612 "Säntisgebiet", which binds authorities and not walkers.³⁴

We were careful with one artifact here, and we are naming it. A loose spatial query with a large tolerance can return the Säntis reserve as a false positive at this point, because the summit is close to the boundary on the Rotsteinpass side. Read at tolerance zero, with the controls passed, the summit is cleanly outside: inside equals False, nearest edge about 1'586 metres. The accurate statement is that the Hundstein pin is outside the federal reserve, not inside it, and a camping ban that starts more than a kilometre and a half away is not a ban on the summit.³

The elevation is the reason the usual objection flips. The summit is at 2'157 metres, well above the local treeline. Every other Alpstein spot we advise against is a hamlet or a lakeshore below the trees, where you would be lying in worked, grazed or inhabited land. The Hundstein is the reverse: high, open, above the trees, and still off the table, because the ground at the pin is a rock tower and not a meadow. The verdict is a Step 0 verdict, set by the terrain, and it would read the same in a canton with the strictest camping law in the country and in one with none.⁷

Everything else on the map here is a chip, not a rule. The whole Inner Alpstein is federal landscape inventory object 1612, which binds authorities only. The land below is worked alp pasture, common alp ground held by the alp corporations of the Widderalp and the Fählenalp, with a resident dairy in season. None of that is a camping prohibition, and the only cantonal area camping ban Appenzell has, the mire landscape decree for the Schwägalp and the Fähnerenspitz, is kilometres away and does not reach here. The reason for the verdict is not on any protection layer. It is the shape of the summit.⁵⁷

Where you can legally sleep

Berggasthaus Rotsteinpass, at 2'124 metres about 1.6 kilometres south-west of the summit, +41 71 799 11 41, info@rotsteinpass.ch, open roughly June to October. This is the natural base for climbing the Hundstein by day.
Berggasthaus Bollenwees at the Fälensee, on the south-east side below the summit, a hut answer that also puts you on the classic circuit.
The alp pasture below, with the alp's consent asked for in advance under art. 4 of the Campingverordnung: the Widderalp to the north, the Fählenalp to the south-east above the Fälensee. That is where a real camp near the Hundstein belongs, not the summit.
Not the summit itself, the rock tower at 2'157 metres reached by T5 to T6 scrambling, with a 700-metre drop to the Fälensee and no ground to pitch on.

General rules for wild camping

This applies wherever you are genuinely allowed to sleep outside, which near the Hundstein means on the alp pasture with the alp's yes and well away from the huts, never on the summit itself. It is not legal text, it is decency and common sense, and on a massif that carries about a quarter of the canton's overnight stays it is the reason the tolerance still exists at all.

No fire. An open fire has no place in the mountains. A gas stove is enough.
Pitch late, strike early. Set up towards evening, gone again early. A bivouac is one night, not a base camp.
Leave no rubbish. Everything you carry up you carry down, organic scraps and toilet paper included.
At least 50 metres from any water for the big business, so you do not foul what people and livestock drink.
Stay small and quiet. A small group, no speaker, no drone, dogs on the lead, and the alp staff's word goes.

Disclaimer

This article reflects my research and assessment to the best of my knowledge, as of August 2026. It is based on the publicly accessible and official sources linked below. It does not replace legal advice and is not a binding statement of the current legal situation.

Appenzell Innerrhoden's rules and map layers change, its commune structure changed in 2022, and mountain conditions on a summit like the Hundstein change by the hour, so material written about this area earlier may be out of date, and the federal map layer does not carry the cantonal wildlife zones at all. Before every tour, check the current sources yourself, get the landowner's consent, and follow instructions on site. A genuine emergency bivouac in distress is a separate question from a planned camp. Anyone who spends the night outside bears responsibility for their own conduct and any consequences themselves. Hikebeast, Leon Helg and Saftladen GmbH accept no liability for decisions made on the basis of this text, and call on no one to break applicable law.

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Frequently asked questions

Is wild camping allowed on the Hundstein?

Nothing here fines you, and we still say no. Art. 4 of the Appenzell Innerrhoden Campingverordnung (GS 935.610) permits the occasional single tent outside licensed campsites and ties it to the landowner's consent. The penalty articles were repealed in 2005, the cantonal fixed-penalty schedule contains no camping entry, and the pin sits outside every federal ban zone, so there is no fine. Our reason for advising against it is the ground: the Hundstein is the highest peak of the Alpstein at 2'157 metres, a rock tower reached by T5 to T6 scrambling with a climbing chimney, dropping about 700 metres to the Fälensee, and there is no flat, dry, safe ground to pitch a tent at the top. It is a peak you climb, not one you sleep on.

Is there a fine for wild camping in Appenzell Innerrhoden?

No. The Campingverordnung's penalty articles, arts. 11 to 15, were repealed on 31 October 2005 and nothing replaced them, and the cantonal fixed-penalty ordinance (GS 311.010) has no camping, tent or bivouac entry. What you can be fined for is other conduct: littering, night noise, a drone anywhere in the Alpstein, and leaving the marked path inside a cantonal wildlife-rest area in the closed season. Sleeping itself is not tariffed. The federal CHF 150 fixed penalty for a tent applies only inside the Säntis game reserve, and the Hundstein summit is about 1'586 metres outside it, so it does not apply here.

Can you pitch a tent on the summit of the Hundstein?

No, and not because it is illegal. The summit is a dominant rock tower, the highest point of the Alpstein at 2'157 metres, reached by scrambling. The standard route is T3 to T4+ with short climbing and steep scree, the direct routes are T5 to T6 with a grade I to II climbing chimney, and the south face drops about 700 metres to the Fälensee. There is no reliable flat, dry, safe ground at the top that would take a tent, and pitching on exposed rock beside a 700-metre drop is a hazard, not a camp. Any real camp near the Hundstein is on the alp pasture below, at the Widderalp or the Fählenalp, which is a different place from the summit.

Is the Hundstein inside the federal game reserve?

No, the summit is about 1'586 metres outside it. The Säntis game reserve, object 16, is the hard line in this massif, and inside it art. 5 para. 1 lit. e VEJ (SR 922.31) bans a tent outright with a CHF 150 fixed penalty under annex 2 no. 12005 of the federal fixed-penalty ordinance. But a point-in-polygon test puts the Hundstein summit outside the reserve, with the nearest boundary about 1'586 metres west-south-west towards the Rotsteinpass. A loose query with a large tolerance can return the reserve as a false positive because the summit is near the boundary; read carefully, at tolerance zero, the pin is cleanly outside, so that ban does not apply on the Hundstein.

Where should I sleep if I want to climb the Hundstein?

At a hut, and climb it by day. The natural base is Berggasthaus Rotsteinpass at 2'124 metres, about 1.6 kilometres south-west, on +41 71 799 11 41 or info@rotsteinpass.ch, open roughly June to October, and Berggasthaus Bollenwees at the Fälensee is the other side. If you want a camp rather than a hut, it belongs on the alp pasture below with the alp's consent under art. 4, at the Widderalp or the Fählenalp, not on the summit. A word-of-mouth alp fee of roughly CHF 7 to 15 to the Senn is reported for camping on alp pasture in this massif, but it is unpublished and not a posted rate, so treat it as hearsay and settle it with one phone call.

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Sources

Campingverordnung des Kantons Appenzell Innerrhoden (GS 935.610), original of 12 June 1973, current version in force, not abrogated, read in the consolidated text. Art. 4: the occasional erection of individual caravans and tents outside licensed campsites may not exceed one month per year and is tied to the consent of the landowner concerned, with special enactments of the district authorities reserved. The operative verb is the erection of a tent or caravan, so a tentless bivouac is not caught, and no Appenzell enactment in force uses the word Biwakieren. Art. 6 para. 3 applies the ordinance's zone restrictions by analogy to the consent route, which is why the safe statement is "one rule, consent-based, no fine" and never "Appenzell law permits tents". Arts. 11 to 15, the penalty provisions, are each recorded in the ordinance's own Änderungstabelle as repealed on 31 October 2005. ai.clex.ch. ↩
Verordnung über die Ordnungsbussen des Kantons Appenzell Innerrhoden (VOB, GS 311.010). Its annex of fixed-penalty offences contains no camping, tent or bivouac entry, so a single night outside is not tariffed anywhere in Appenzell Innerrhoden cantonal law. Combined with the repeal of the Campingverordnung's penalty articles in 2005, the absence of a camping fine in the canton is a positive read of the complete schedule and not merely an inference from the repeal. What the schedule does tariff is other conduct a person sleeping outside can trigger, littering, night noise, drone flight anywhere in the Alpstein and leaving the marked path inside a cantonal wildlife-rest area in the closed season, none of which is sleeping as such. ai.clex.ch. ↩
Official federal geodata, queried at the Hundstein summit, WGS84 47.2525 / 9.4019, LV95 2'748'601.50 / 1'235'368.58, elevation 2'157 m. The reframe from WGS84 to LV95 was performed and cross-checked. Every layer was queried individually at tolerance zero, with a positive control passed and the controls documented, to avoid the large-tolerance false positive that a loose query can produce near the reserve boundary. The game reserve, wildlife-rest-zone and moor layers all return empty at the summit. Distances to the Säntis game reserve object 16 were computed from its boundary geometry: the nearest edge lies about 1'586 metres west-south-west of the summit, and a point-in-polygon test returns summit inside the reserve equals False. The Hundstein pin is therefore outside the federal reserve, so the outright tent ban and its CHF 150 fixed penalty, which apply inside, do not bite here. map.geo.admin.ch. ↩
Federal landscape inventory (BLN) identify at the Hundstein summit: object 1612 "Säntisgebiet". This is a national landscape inventory object; under art. 6 of the Bundesgesetz über den Natur- und Heimatschutz (NHG, SR 451) it binds federal and cantonal authorities in the fulfilment of their tasks and imposes no conduct rule on a camper, so it does not create a camping prohibition at the pin. It is recorded here because it is the only federal designation the summit actually carries, and because it is the reason nobody should write that the ground is unprotected. map.geo.admin.ch. ↩
Norms and area designations checked against a single night at this point and found not to reach it. The Standeskommissionsbeschluss über die Moorlandschaften Schwägalp und Fähnerenspitz (GS 454.001) does prohibit camping with no tent qualifier, but it is confined to its two perimeters, neither of which reaches the Hundstein. Bezirk Schwende-Rüte publishes no Polizeireglement and no Campingreglement that would create a conduct rule for a walker sleeping out, so the reservation in art. 4 of the Campingverordnung in favour of special district enactments is empty here. The land below the summit is worked alp pasture on common alp ground; no protection layer at the pin carries a camping rule. The verdict is therefore not built on a statute at all. Contact: Bezirk Schwende-Rüte. ai.clex.ch. ↩
SAC Tourenportal, Hundstein. The summit is described as a dominant rock block, the highest peak of the Alpstein, with the direct approaches graded up to T6 minus and a climbing chimney at grade I to II on the direct lines. The standard route is graded T3 to T4+ with short passages of climbing and steep scree. The portal's route descriptions establish that the top is exposed rock reached by scrambling rather than a walkable summit, and that there is no flat, dry, safe ground at the summit that would take a tent. This is the single most decisive source for the verdict: it is why the answer is "a peak you climb, not one you sleep on". sac-cas.ch. ↩
Terrain and elevation at the published point. The Hundstein summit stands at 2'157 metres, the highest point of the Alpstein massif, well above the local treeline, which in this marginal part of the Alps sits somewhere around 1'700 to 1'900 metres, so the "below the treeline" objection does not apply here. The summit is a jagged furrowed rock tower whose south face drops about 700 metres to the Fälensee. The flattest and only genuinely campable ground in the vicinity is not at the pin at all but on the surrounding alp pasture several hundred metres lower and away, at the Widderalp to the north and north-east and the Fählenalp to the south-east above the Fälensee. The published point is the summit itself; better ground on the alp below is a tip and never the verdict for the pin. map.geo.admin.ch. ↩
Wikipedia, Hundstein (Alpstein). The Hundstein is recorded as the highest peak of the Alpstein massif at 2'157 metres, in the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden, on the ridge between the Säntis and the Rotsteinpass to the north and the Fälensee to the south. Used here for the summit elevation, the cantonal attribution and the massif context, cross-checked against the federal map. de.wikipedia.org. ↩
Ground truth and reachable doors. The base pastures below the Hundstein are the Widderalp, held by the Alpgenossenschaft Widderalp, to the north and north-east, and the Fählenalp, run by the family of Silvia and Sepp Inauen-Bollhalder above the Fälensee to the south-east, the same Fählenalp tenant that appears in our Fälensee consent case. The reachable doors on the way up are Berggasthaus Rotsteinpass at 2'124 m, about 1.6 km south-west, +41 71 799 11 41, info@rotsteinpass.ch, open roughly June to October, and Berggasthaus Bollenwees at the Fälensee. No fixed fee for sleeping out was established: a word-of-mouth alp fee of roughly CHF 7 to 15 to the Senn is reported for camping on alp pasture in this massif, but it is unpublished and not a posted tariff and must not be presented as a fixed rate, and the amounts we publish for the Seealpsee and the Fälenalp belong to different arrangements on different ground and must not be carried across. The practical answer for the summit is to sleep at a hut and climb it by day. rotsteinpass.ch. ↩

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