Texelgruppe Briefing on Thursday evening at the home of Clare and Max decide to where to go for three days at the end the choice is on a tour of the Texel Plan Refuge Refuge Petrarca on Friday and Saturday, we hope that there is somewhere to sleep ...
We start at about one and about two hours later we Plan to the mountains with the winter clothes are not easy to do with all that snow peaks. Let's start time is not beautiful, I call the shelter and say that we are moving the operator tells me that there is little wind, I feel convinced, but we are there and we're off. There are beautiful meadows that lead down to below the peaks seen from below give some awe. After less than ten minutes it starts to rain a little at first and then increases in intensity, Manu began to be doubtful that we can arrive at the shelter with this important season of his decade-long experience in the mountains, I do not pronounce while Clare and Max did not like getting the program to ruin a little water and want to continue. Fortunately, there is a hut at 2200 meters to 2980 the refuge is the doubts of Manu are also due to the portion of the refuge. As we get is an increasing share of the cold wind blows stronger and more close to the hut also began to hail, we run a riparaci in the hut where we drink while we wait for a coffee stop. After about an hour but it stops there seems to improve in 3000 the clouds are still thick. There's indecision at what we do back home or go to the shelter? There removes any doubt, the manager of the refuge that we should return to the country about why you are in a snowstorm. We turn heel and go back to Plan, we take a small hotel in the evening we go to dinner at a nice restaurant eat well drink some beer and we talk all in all a good night, we had to be in retreat but it also goes well!
The next morning at 7 we are already standing and we have breakfast we start the weather is great there are no rain clouds but at least we go to Plan refuge in about three hours in cold weather it takes up to 2980 jacket and gloves. Despite the snow, the trail is not difficult, the shelter is nice we drink a cup of coffee to Germany signed the book of the refuge, I send postcards of the rite and then we prepare for the descent, the goal is the refuge Petrarca when they told us that there is no place to sleep but we hope so!
The trail is beautiful is always more or less at high altitude are around 2300-2400 meters there are a lot of whistling marmots on our arrival and wander around. The backpack and my maintenance is heavy and makes itself felt on the back to end up more water when there are still two hours to the shelter. After 7 and a half hours after departure from Plan come to the shelter I'm tired and my shoulders are very bad for the first time I can not even lift his arms, I have a tremendous thirst I'll go into the shelter and take a Coke media and a half of water for Manu, and a foam and a Radler mean everything to me. The Max and Clare we have disconnected the final ascent to the refuge are just super fit! While ordering
also wonder if there is no place to sleep, the idea of \u200b\u200bthe backpack for me to get back 1400 meters of descent is not much that pleases me but I respond that there is no place. After we rested a bit 'to be shared otherwise it becomes too late, but we realize that there are people who took a room and asked after us, and so Max comes back to ask, and this time tell us that c' is placed, mach that strange but that's okay we place the backpacks on the table and let's drink a beer on the benches in the sun you are 'just fine, and I the Manu we are hungry and so we take a plate of bacon. We conclude the evening after we had eaten, men and women dumpling noodles in broth with a nice scopone science, meanwhile the others who are drinking to the shelter with us as crazy people can not seem to be in a shelter at 2800 meters high.
After the night passed in plank, which is under the roof there is a line of mattresses placed side by side in form a giant read, we got up around 6:30 I Manu we went to see what was the time and there were still some clouds we wanted to go up there close to the fork, the trail was all but frozen, so we preferred to wait. Around seven we breakfast and we have also achieved Clare and Max then we went and watched all the conditions of trails and we took a ride up to the fork that now is a bit 'less jacket. We are a bit 'undecided on what to do the Clear and Max would like to make the top Hohe Weiße then ask the manager of the hut as the path to reach it but he does not recommend it that there are suitable conditions, in the end all and desist we proceed to Plan. The trail drops quickly off to the valley is beautiful and well marked, did not take long to reach the bottom of the valley Lazinsersalm, beautiful malga dove ci concediamo finalmente una fetta di strudel. Ripartiamo e visto che è ancora presto per tornare a casa e il tempo anche se non è dei migliori sembra tenere decidiamo di fare una deviazione fino al lago Erensee. La Chiara è il gran forma e parte a un ritmo decisamente troppo alto per me e la Manu che accusiamo anche il peso dei nostri zaini e così ci ricongiungiamo solo al lago dove per fortuna di tanto in tanto si fa vedere anche il sole e possiamo svaccarci un po'.
