27 April 2010

Wyssnollen, Switzerland

 The next morning, the hut was empty when we got up ...  most had left early to go up the FInsteraarhorn.

Last night we had looked over at where we wanted to go - Wyssnollen - up the ridge and onto the top dome.

We woke up to cloud all around again, and could not see where the other side was.

Dropping down to the glacier we chose to just go over the Grunhorngluke -  we were still tired, and the cloud gave a perfect excuse to skip the summit.

We headed straight across the glacier and up the other side. The clouds disappeared then came back again.

 From the top we dropped down the other side, in the same tracks as we had used a couple of years before.
We soon were approaching the Konkordiaplatz, and we arrived at the base of the Konkordia hut steps.

We even found the same ski lager in the rocks for our kit that we had used a couple of days before.

The steps were as exhausting as last time, but we had plenty of time as we were early in the day.

Resting on the veranda the day gradually improved, and the sun came out.

We did have some entertainment when the army arrived in a huge helicopter, on the glacier below the hut.

This had really been a rest day for us after yesterday, albeit with a change of location. We could not really have done much more.