What the hell have we done wrong again? That's what Achim and I asked ourselves standing on a stormy ridge looking at the clouds rolling in from the East? Actually, the weather was supposed to be perfectly stable for the next days in the Swiss-Italian Sesvenna area. After fighting our way along this stormy ridge in waist deep snow, we returned to our cabin and hoped for the better weather the next morning...
As it still wasn't good we decided, after a small argumentation, to leave into the Lechtal area in the Northern Alps. So we descended, got some coffee and made our way to the Arlberg,were we had a perfect bluebird day!
It was truly nice and the only drawback was the three hour hike to our cabin carrying all our gear and all our food. Puuuhhh!
Finally, we arrived at the cabin, dropped our gear, and tried to reach another summit before dusk finally captures us.
but finally we reached it and had a wonderful sunset up there. Even the descent was really good although it didn't snow for a couple of weeks. So far nobody dared to go straight down the steep and deep summit slope. Well, we took the slight avalanche risk and had a lot of fun!
But when we arrived at our cabin, I was a little bit sunburned and very exhausted from a long and intense day. In the cabin we met Eddie and Stefan who have been in the area for two days now deflowering virgin "powder" slopes (more or less).
It was a still long way to the summit
but finally we reached it and had a wonderful sunset up there. Even the descent was really good although it didn't snow for a couple of weeks. So far nobody dared to go straight down the steep and deep summit slope. Well, we took the slight avalanche risk and had a lot of fun!
After a fun evening we woke up with another bluebird day! Hell, yeah!
So we got our skis on and followed Eddie's tracks to the first summit.
Another magnificent and immaculate day!
Right underneath the summit, we left our skis
and climbed the last meters to the summit.
Only Achim and Eddi were bold enough to go all the way up, while Stefan and I thought about the technical difficulty of climbing this flake with ski boots - la pierre philosophal :)
The snow quality of the downhill run was better than expected. and ater a short lunch break we ascended another summit.
After this pleasant and lonely day in a beautiful mountain scenery, we skied all the way down into the busy Arlberg valleys.
A great short skitouring weekend is over and New Year's Eve is about to come. Franz organised a little party in his house and we had waaaayyyyy toooooo many drinks and beer, a funny intense night, and a really dizzy start into 2009 ;)
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