The approach gives us time to get nicely warmed up. The first bits of the scramble are snow free and we're up to the Adlerhorst (full of icicles!) in what seems like no time at all. After a bit of tea we continue on our way. About here we start to see snow, which gets progressively deeper as we climb. After a bit we break out the ice axes (not really needed, but nice to use like a hiking pole in the snow). We're by ourselves except for the guy who passes us in trail-running gear (!) not too long before the fork in the path; he apparently just goes to the fork, because he comes back down a few minutes later. At the fork we turn towards the saddle and the Sunnighorn. We kick steps in the snow for parts of this, but make easy progress to the saddle and then along the ridge to the peak without problems. We're completely alone on the peak (that's a first!), which is wonderfully wind free (we were expecting/dreading heavy winds).
This was a short, but really enjoyable tour. We haven't really done anything combining scrambling and snow before, and this was a good start into that fun. :-)
