Eckskopf (1563 m a.s.l.) is a striking, sharply protruding peak in the Rätikon range, located in the municipality of Nenzing in Vorarlberg, Austria. Its name literally means 'corner head', reflecting how the mountain sits wedged between two deep valleys, giving it a distinctly prominent silhouette.
The peak is bordered to the south and southeast by the Gamperdonatal valley with the Meng river and its narrow Mengschlucht gorge, and to the north and northeast by the Gamptal valley, where the Gampbach stream carves deep into the rock and forms the Gampfall waterfall. Eckskopf marks the northernmost summit between these two valleys and sits at the end of a long ridge running from Naafkopf via Bettlerjoch, Augstenberg, and Sareiser Joch. The surrounding terrain is geologically fascinating but notably unstable - glacial erosion combined with gypsum layers beneath the main dolomite rock has created deep crevasses and collapse dolines, some reaching up to 400 meters in length and 150 meters in depth.
How to reach the summitA local legend tells of a hunter who went chamois hunting on the Feast of the Assumption without first attending mass, and was confronted by a huge coal-black buck he believed to be the devil himself.