Fluchthorn, 3795m April, 5 2011 (Alpes)

The weather forecast for Monday said that was going to be the worst day of all our holidays. Just some clouds and snowfalls. We decided to use that day to drive to Swizertland and catch up to Britanniahut in Saas Fee valley.

Afterwards the day was sunny untill Paso del Sempione where some fog and rainfalls went with us until Saas Fee.

We took a cable way untill 3000m. From there, it´s just 45min by foot left. It was lightly snowing but it was not so cloudy.

In the last hours of the day even the sky was clearing up. We took this photo with our next goal, the Stralhorn. One of the most skiable 4000´s of the area. A dusting of new snow promised a good descent the following day....how wrong we were...


Afther checking ho poor was the dinner of the refuge in spite of bein an expensive place we fall asleep fastly until next day.

I do not like the location of the refuge, actually. We had to descend like 150m from the 3030m of the refuge to 2900m.

First sunshines on Stralhorn.


The first part are see-saw along the right side of the glaciar.


As we went ahead the wind become harder.


Closte to the Alderpass, the coll from the trail to Stralhorn turns left to the summit, the wind was almost unbereable.

On the coll we decided to give up this summit due to the strong wind. Besides making the walk dangerous, the descent would be unworthy. The wind had blown all the new snow and harden the snow covered.
Taking a lot of care we could achieve to change the track sking and set up my splitboard. We descended to 3150 from 3790m of the coll. Once there, the wind was lower and we could eat something after hours without eating.

Taking into account the time we decided to get another summit that appear in my map like skiable. It seemed to us that the wind did not blow so strong there...we were wrong again!

Now we had to cross the glaciar to the left side, something not so dangerous in April.

After almost other 2h we got the top. We could not remain there a lot of time because of the wind. Monte Rosa at the background and Stralhorn in the foreground.

Us on Fluchthorn, 3795m!

Alberto an me going down. The day afer I reached the Breithorn, and this lonely 3000 seemed to me more "Alpinistic" than the other one. That´s clear that the heigh is not all...

In this slope the snow was lightly better..



Later, we had to reach the refuge again....It may have out of the activity..!

NUTELLIZATION after completing roughly 2000m of vertical acumulated ascent.


Actually I liked to suffer "several" weather. We could not reach the first summit due to that but the day was complete, physically hard and worthly.