After our stunning day of opera yesterday, we took to the hills once again for our 2nd via ferrata of the trip. This was a much more satisfying outing even though it was still a bit easy. Anyway, it was a great and full day in these spectacular mountains.
The descent was kind of hard work since the glacier was really slushy and slippery, even though we had crampons.
We decided to traverse back to the gondola and take that back down the hill rather than hiking down the valley floor. By now the clouds were closing in and the sky was really dark! It rained on us a little bit, but not as heavy as we had expected.
Anyway, it was a great day out in the hills and we were both really stoked, a great start to the month of September.
We started with the gondola once again, and walked about 45 min to the start of the route. There were quite a few other people doing the same thing but it wasn't crowded - just not much solitude. It was a beautiful day with sort of a scary afternoon forecast. In the map below, we were doing 'Day 1' of the multi-day Bocchette ferrata tour. Doesn't look like much on the map, but it was spectacular!
We got a good early start and left some options open for the afternoon.
You can just see the refuge in the distance on this photo on the left, and then once we got to the refuge we had a good view looking back up to the bocce.
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