Next day the clouds were still around the hut, so we delayed leaving for several hours, and meant we were unable to make our principle objective (ambitious though it was as we would find out when I returned years later with Dave) of the Blumesalphorn traverse.
After much discussion we decided to go out and investigate the summit behind the hut - Wildi Frau, this involved following the ridge then skirting around to col behind and then ascending up the ridge.
As we got to the col the clouds started to disperse, but we never got much higher, leaving the main track the snow got very deep and progress was really slow.
Over towards the Blumesalphorn we could could see where we wanted to be, but that would hopefully be for tomorrow.. but circumstances would change that
