It was sometime in September 2006 when Andy and I went off for another tramp. The route started in Klosters (GR), Alp Sardasca to be precise. Having arrived there our first ascent was up to the Klosterspass where we took the following photograph:
It certainily was an amazing view!! All the glaciers - just incredible!!! Just imagine how it looked like when there was even more ice!!!After a short break we hiked on - downhill - till we arrived at the end of the world. The end of the world actually is a damned lake (Silvretta) and we just called like that because when one followed the path with binoculars it suddenly seemed to end at a cliff. At that particular lake we put up our first camp, had dinner, slept soundly to get up the following morning to go on tramping.
Some view somewhere between Switzerland and Austria in the European Alps. Down in the valley is actually a hut called Jamtalhütte and we hiked down there and then up again the valley you see straight ahead. As a matter of fact it was quite a tough ascent up to that col (on which we took that picture). It was very steep, rocky, dusty, hot... And there even were some Dutchmen doing that pass - they seemed pretty wasted...Anyway we had to get down on the other side of course and the following picture shows you how funny that downhill path was...;)
Me 'tramping' downhill... After this descent and a short ascent in the mentioned valley we put up Andy's tarp again. It was a lovely place in a flatish part of the valley with a river flowing and marmots whistling.
The following day we made it up to 3'000 meters a.s.l. Without our backpacks obviously because we just left them on the pass and decided to go a little higher to "go beyond the 3'000 line".
I've talked about glaciers before and that's another one. In point of fact I haven't even realised walking on a glacier till we came to the edge. Having arrived there it was very clear that it was a glacier - as you can see on the picture...;)
Dunno' why I've chosen this particular picture - it's nice though...;)
On the other hand there really is a story behind this picture. We were just hiking uphill when we saw a random white mountain peak. As we didn't have a single clue what makes this part of the mountain look so white we spontanously decided to go and have look. The thing just is going and have look took us a long time. Anyway, it was pretty impressive and it certainly was worth doing the loop way. The worse thing was that we tried to get back on the track by trying to get around a mountain. Unfortunately it did not work out as we imaged it would (when having hiked up a steep!!! slope we realized that on the other side there was no way of getting downhill and thus 'just' went back the way we came from...)At last we were back on the track and went on tramping. Since there wasn't any feasible spot to put up our camp we just kept on hiking. I liked it a lot. It was getting chilly, the path was kind of flat...
Later we came by some huts and just checked whether they were open or not. And surprise, surprise - one was open. Thus we just decided to clean a little (there was a terrible mess and dirt everywhere!!!) and start cooking dinner
That's Andy and me after having cleaned the hut a little and now enjoying a late tea time...Later the owner came with some friends? who all were very funny. As we figured all (or at least almost all) folks from Samnaum as well as the village itself are weird.... Anyway...s, they told us they wouldn't bother if we stayed indoors and tried to sleep. But we decided that we'd probably sleep better outdoors because they seemed neither to be likely to go to 'bed' early nor to be very quiet guys...
The next morning we tramping on to Samnaun (hilarious and ridiculous village as I've mentioned before) where we purchased some food and then went on. The ascent ended up very windy and cold. The fact that people were talking about a lot of rain and nasty weather been predicting did not make me feel any better. Nonetheless we sticked to our planned route and actually tramped rather far that day! We even crossed the pass where the bear was some time ago!;) Late we found a hut and decided to put up our camp right next to it so the wind wouldn't bother us too much.
A nice tea time again!;)And again it seemed it wasn't the end of the day yet. We were about to eat dinner when a hunter came strolling up to the hut. As friendly as we were we asked him whethter that be okay to have up our tarp next to his hut. Unfortunately he thought we'd break some law by doing so and told us to bagger off. So off we went again - looking for a nice place to sleep. As we were downhill we passed another house and we ended up being allowed to put up our camp next to their hut. They even invited us in and we got some warm tea to drink. After quite some chatting, having had a glase of wine we felt urged to go to bed and catch some sleep at last. These folks (an elder couple with their granddaughter) were very friendly and very 'rumantsch'. The next morning we ate our breakfast indoors and then tramped on to Tschlin, Martina and Nauders. There we'vre rented a room in a house for one night which was quite great. Washing all the clothes in the shower, having a shower ourselves, writing postcards, buying some more food...
And that's actually it for my part. The day I was traveling back to Buchs, Marcel came and the guys went tramping on to the border triangle and then kept following the Italian-Swiss border for two weeks.
I for my part can see that it was quite an adventure that tramp and it was a funny feeling to cross the border Austria-Switzerland even a couple of times a day sometimes!
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