After last year’s edition of the AACZ Ice Climbing Skill Transfer Workshop in Cogne nearly fell victim to a severe lack of climbable ice, the 2025 edition started under much…
The weather forecast predicted snowfall for this year’s Weihnachtskneip! This convinced 19 of the 23 Huttli to take skis. During the course of the afternoon, the participants trickled in in…
On August 31, 2024, a small but fine group of Huttli met at our high alpine base to celebrate the founding of the AACZ. However, there was some melancholy from…
In 1924, under the aegis of Robert Helbling, the AACZ acquired a small Walserhaus in what was then the epicenter of alpine skiing. The budget for this purchase has been…
The long weekend of February 1st to 4th 2024 saw the newest edition of the AACZ Ice Climbing Skill Transfer Workshop. Unfortunately, in the days leading up to the event,…
We suffered for quite some years, but this December we celebrated a Weihnachtskneip with huge amounts of great powder! A brilliant start to the winter prevented us this year from…
The weather forecast for December 2nd, 2023 was not exactly good – little visibility, snowfall all day with an expected amount of new snow of at least 50cm. We thought:…
The weather was forecasted quite wet, stormy and cold for the weekend of Oct. 28th 2023. This scared off a few but four were still convinced that it could turn…
As every year, the AACZ celebrated its foundation at the Stiftungsfest on the Windgälenhütte. More than 30 Huttli came up with the occasion, many of them now with family. Depending…
On June 16, 2023, the general assembly of the Academic Alpine Club Zurich took place in Linde Oberstrass. This year there was a major change to the CC. New President,…