We had been hoping to get in another good multi-pitch climb for the last couple weekends, but the weather just hasn't played along. That finally changed this weekend so we went back to the Balmfluechöpfli.
Given the popularity of the routes, we once again started early (made easy by the fact that time changed today!) and hiked in pretty quickly from Oberdorf. This time we managed to lose the path at some point, so we did a bit of back-tracking and some "let's just go straight up" to get back on the path just past the first ladder. Onwards, past the beginning of the Sudgrat, to the start of the routes. Here there is one group climbing and two groups waiting. shit. Ah well... we wait a bit and climb when it's our turn. At least there aren't a ton of people waiting behind us (only one group when Andrea starts, two more come while she's climbing the first pitch). With the waiting (the team in front of us isn't fast) it's not efficient climbing, but it's still tons of fun. The sun even comes out at some point. :-)
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| don't follow the yellow dots...through the fog.. |
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| finally in the sun |
After finishing up we take up the rope and then head to the very top to pack our stuff away (here we run into someone from the old gaming group, which is just totally random). It's cool and windy, so it's not a long break. Then it's off along the ridge and the nice trail that takes us back down, past the trail to the Eulengrat, to rejoin the trail to Oberdorf. We aren't quite sure how long it's going to take to get back to Oberdorf, so we start off pretty quickly and even do a bit of jogging (downhill it's super fun) before seeing the "40 minutes" sign; there's no way we're going to make that in the 9 minutes we have until the next train, so we slow way down.
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| fall colors |
Back at Oberdorf we get the very pleasant surprise that the restaurant in the train station has reopened and is now a Tibetan place, so we get to enjoy some momos while waiting for the train. Yeah!
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