A word about our room at Rifugio Tissi. There were five beds. However, if there were five beds and five backpacks, there would be no way to move around the room. Luckily it was just Vanessa, Mike and I. We still had a hard time moving around the room.
We woke to thunder, lightening and pouring rain. This was not entirely unexpected as we had been monitoring the weather forecasts. I dressed in rain pants and rain jacket.
Breakfast was a bit limited. There were bowls but no cereal or yogurt. The was a container of cocoa powder next to the bowls. Maybe people eat cocoa powder in bowls?
As luck would have it the weather cleared by the time we left. We had brilliant views of the Civetta group. We descended to Rifugio Vazzoler and then amended our clothing as it was warm and sunny outside.
From there is was a further descent. We almost missed it but Vanessa picked it uo saving us a costly mistake in time, distance and elevation. We walked through forest and scree under the wall of the Moiazza. Then we noticed the clouds rolling in and just like that the views were obliterated. Then we hears the thunder. We moved quickly over the Forcella Col dell'Orso pass. We stopped and put our rain jackets back on. We traversed the hillside and the storm moved in. Then we headed up and over another saddle called the Forcella del Camp. The lightening and thunder increased in intensity as we traversed the south flank of the Moiazza. We picked up the pace. It was pretty cloudy and we were walking in the clouds but I could make out the rifugio in the distance. We made it without incident.
We were pretty wet when we arrived. However a 1€ 2min shower felt amazing and they even have a dryer to dry our clothes.
Distance: 16km (10 miles)
Elevation up: 740m (2400ft)
Elevation down: 1160m (3800ft)
Photos at https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0q532ODWVPkrI
This is is my track for the last seven days
http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0ZqguMWq0nIVvMudyEDQOcLFQgoN7hGXc
We woke to thunder, lightening and pouring rain. This was not entirely unexpected as we had been monitoring the weather forecasts. I dressed in rain pants and rain jacket.
Breakfast was a bit limited. There were bowls but no cereal or yogurt. The was a container of cocoa powder next to the bowls. Maybe people eat cocoa powder in bowls?
As luck would have it the weather cleared by the time we left. We had brilliant views of the Civetta group. We descended to Rifugio Vazzoler and then amended our clothing as it was warm and sunny outside.
From there is was a further descent. We almost missed it but Vanessa picked it uo saving us a costly mistake in time, distance and elevation. We walked through forest and scree under the wall of the Moiazza. Then we noticed the clouds rolling in and just like that the views were obliterated. Then we hears the thunder. We moved quickly over the Forcella Col dell'Orso pass. We stopped and put our rain jackets back on. We traversed the hillside and the storm moved in. Then we headed up and over another saddle called the Forcella del Camp. The lightening and thunder increased in intensity as we traversed the south flank of the Moiazza. We picked up the pace. It was pretty cloudy and we were walking in the clouds but I could make out the rifugio in the distance. We made it without incident.
We were pretty wet when we arrived. However a 1€ 2min shower felt amazing and they even have a dryer to dry our clothes.
Distance: 16km (10 miles)
Elevation up: 740m (2400ft)
Elevation down: 1160m (3800ft)
Photos at https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0q532ODWVPkrI
This is is my track for the last seven days
http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0ZqguMWq0nIVvMudyEDQOcLFQgoN7hGXc
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