Tagert

Tagert 11,270’

The Tagert hut sleeps 7 and is located near Castle Peak. The neighboring Green-Wilson hut is 50 yards up the hill.

This hut is part of the Alfred Braun Hut System, a community supported 501c3 non-profit which independently owns and operates seven huts: Barnard, Goodwin Greene, Markley, Lindley, Tagert, Green Wilson, and Opa Taylor. We contract our bookings through the Tenth Mountain Division Hut Association. Click below to be redirected to huts.org to plan and book a trip.

The original Tagert Hut was a dam-keeper cabin for a hydroelectric plant during the silver mining of the late 1880s. It is named for Billy Tagert, an Aspen pioneer and teamster who hauled supplies to mining camps in the Elk Range. Tagert was one of the first to regularly use the cabin for skiing in the 1930s and 1940s. In 1963 the iconic A-Frame was built by Stewart Mace, Ben Holden, Fred Braun, and Francis Whitaker and other volunteers. In 1998 the Tagert Hut was remodeled by board members Al Beyer and Dave Stapleton with support from Boots Ferguson in honor of his father Barlow. Significant improvements have also been worked on in 2014 and 2018.

Warning: The Alfred A. Braun Huts and Friends Hut are located in areas of known avalanche terrain with recurring avalanche cycles. Routes are not marked or maintained.