Here's where you peruse WACer trip reports and post your own for everyone to see. Remember: Never let the truth interfere with a good story!
| Trip Reports |
|
|
|
| GuideBook | |
| Weather | blue sky |
| TrailConditions | excellent |
| Owned By | wbethge |
| Mailed to WacList | |
| RowId | 234 |
|
| Report |
|
We started on a hot Tuesday morning (June 8th) in Tuebingen, heading to the center of the Swiss alps. Children and people on the streets pointed at us in disbelief, seeing skis on top of our car. Arriving at Tiefenbach (2106 m) on the Furka Pass close to Andermatt at 4 p.m. we headed for the Albert-Heim Huette (2542m) for our first overnight stay. The hut is picturesquely located on a cliff above the Tiefen-Glacier. There were only two other guys with us that night and the warden served us a hearty game dish for dinner calling for a schnapps afterwards. Getting up at 3.30 am was pretty tough but hot coffee was awaiting us. We headed for the Tiefen-Glacier to attempt a crossing over a cliff band at the end of a horseshoe shaped ridge line to the Rhone-Glacier. At around 9 am we arrived at the Bergschrund of the Glacier facing a vertical wall with a couloir leading to a saddle connecting to the Rhone-Glacier. Carsten a friend of us was lead-climbing. It was steep, intimidating, with loose rock and leading into the indefinite, in short we didn’t make it and turned around, opting for a fine joy ride done the “Firn” on the glacier. Being back in Tiefenbach around noon we went to a nice guesthouse, took a shower, a short nap and headed for coffee and cake. The next morning we decided to take the longer but easier way up the Rhone Glacier starting at Hotel Belvedere (2350m) at the glacier tongue and starting a 13 km walk up the glacier to its end. Our goal was the Trift-Huette (2520 m) were we planned to stay the next night. After a long trip over a heavily crevassed but in lots of snow covered glacier we made a little detour on the 3600 m Dammastock to have a view and enjoy a longer ride down. What a gorgeous view from the top: Lots of 4000m peaks including Matterhorn, Weisshorn, Jungfrau, Eiger, just to name the most famous ones. Heading down over to the next valley crossing the Trift-Limmi we had a fabulous descent of over 1200 m down to the Trift-glacier. With the descend we left the crowd and were completely alone. The Trift-Huette sits on a steep slope below hanging glaciers overlooking the ice fall of the Trift-glacier. We had to climb up another 100m over steep cliffs to get to the entrance. The hut was unguarded but open as all Swiss huts are for climbers. We opened the door after a little snow digging and found a lovely, cozy old cabin with enough wood, wine and some food. We dozed in the sun, relaxed, had a nap and cooked a lovely meal that evening. Heading back over the glacier the next day when the weather turned from the clear blue skies of the last few days to heavy clouds moving in we were sure to have had one of the nicest and most romantic ski trips of this season.
Some pictures of this trip under:
http://mc.1und1.de/mc/WkAFq4qLAr1LCSOLrATI2tA0MrW4vr
|
|
|
|
WASHINGTON
ALPINE
CLUB
