'Soft-core' Silvretta
On Tour in the Silvretta Alps, Austria
Day three included an ascent of the Dreilanderspitz. From the ski depot there was twenty minutes of interesting, but not too challenging scrambling along the ridge to the summit signified by a cross as on most Austrian summits.
By now we were getting a feel for the “softcore” element of the trip and found ourselves settling into a very relaxed routine; leave the hut at 8am, gently skin up for 3-4 hours, make ski depot, crampons on, scramble along a ridge, back down, skis on, make tracks in fresh powder all the way to the hut in time for lunch! I certainly felt like I was on holiday. Perhaps we were just very lucky with the weather and snow conditions.
However this routine was by no means monotonous. The peaks became more impressive, the descents got longer, the powder got deeper and the huts became cosier. The next two days took in the Piz Buin, Silvrettahorn and Schneeglocke, arriving at the Saarbruckner Hutte.
