Damülser Berge, Alpine subgroup in Vorarlberg, Austria.
The Damülser Berge form a roughly 13-kilometre mountain chain in the Bregenzerwaldgebirge, running east-west between Mellau to the north and Damüls to the south. Its highest summit is the Damülser Mittagsspitze at 2095 m. The crest drops over 1000 metres into the Bregenzerach valley on the east, while the Sünser See lies at the western edge.
The range appears in Walther Flaig's 1977 Alpine Club guide as the subgroup "Damülser Berge und Kanisfluh", grouping it with the neighbouring massif. Dieter Seibert's 2008 guide and the SOIUSA classification treat the Damülser Berge as one of the Bregenzerwaldgebirge subgroups, called "Damülser Berge im engeren Sinn" in SOIUSA to distinguish it from the wider grouping that also takes in the Glatthorngruppe. Hubert Trimmel's 1968 cave register split the area between entries 1117 Kanisfluh and 1118 Damülser Mittagsspitz.
Damüls is the only settlement within the range, lying low on the southern slope of the Mittagspitzkamm. The slopes are dotted with numerous alps (mountain pastures), while the steep flanks of the Kanisfluh hold only four vorsäß (seasonal farmsteads): Wirmboden, Bühlen, Ahornen and Feurstein. The name Damüls derives from the alpine pasture settlement that gave the range its name.
The Mittagspitzkamm peaks are usually climbed from the south; only the Sünser Spitze, Hochblanken and Bettlerkopf have marked paths from the north. On the Kanisfluh only the main summit, the Holenke, is reached by a marked trail. Since 2008 the Damüls and Mellau lifts are linked across the ridge into the Faschina–Damüls–Mellau ski area.
The Sünser See on the western edge of the range is one of the largest mountain lakes in the Bregenzerwaldgebirge. The eastern end of the chain drops over 1000 metres in a wall into the Bregenzerach valley, and the eastern foot of the Kanisfluh is protected as the Unterargenstein Natura 2000 area.
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