The Große Bärenkopf ("Great Bear's Head") or Weißer Bärenkopf ("White Bear's Head") is a twin-topped mountain in the Glockner Group in the Fuscher/Kapruner Kamm of the High Tauern, a range in the Austrian Central Alps. The mountain lies exactly on the border between the states of Salzburg and Carinthia.
The main summit is 3,396 m (AA) metres high; the west summit reaches a height of 3,353 m. The two peaks are about 300 metres away from one another. There are arêtes running away from the top in all four direction of the compass. Seen from the northeast, the Großer Bärenkopf, has the shape of a wide, prominent, firn- covered mountain. From the other directions it looks like a rocky peak.
The mountain was first climbed on 18 September 1869 by Munich Alpinists Karl Hofmann, Prague merchant, Johann Stüdl, and mountain guides Thomas Groder and Josef Schnell from Kals am Großglockner on their exploratory tour, that took them on the same day to the neighbouring peaks of the Hinterer Bratschenkopf and Klockerin to the north. Today the Großer Bärenkopf is often climbed during a crossing from the Oberwalder Hut and the Heinrich Schwaiger Haus.
There's a trail leading to the summit.
The nearest mountain hut is Gruberscharten-Biwak located 769m/2 522ft NNE of the summit.
By elevation Großer Bärenkopf is
# 16 out of 362 in the Glockner Group # 38 out of 3311 in the Western Tauern Alps # 29 out of 1318 in High Tauern National Park # 12 out of 1052 in Spittal an der Drau # 12 out of 2446 in Carinthia # 13 out of 1291 in Zell am See # 13 out of 3018 in Salzburg # 29 out of 1786 in the Hohe Tauern
By prominence Großer Bärenkopf is
# 11 out of 362 in the Glockner Group # 92 out of 3311 in the Western Tauern Alps # 44 out of 1318 in High Tauern National Park # 37 out of 1052 in Spittal an der Drau # 53 out of 1291 in Zell am See # 48 out of 1786 in the Hohe Tauern
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