QUESTO È SOLO IN INGLESE, X ITALIANO DOVREBBE ESSERCI UN BOTTONE TRANSLATE QUI A DESTRA!
20 April: around 8.30 I leave with my normal skitouring backpack. I was told it is long, consider the whole day to go and come back.
But after 15 days with 40 kg pulka, I feel I am flying.
The snow is perfectly frozen, the sky completely clear, the view amazing.
I try to fix some images with photo but it is not possible to catch them. Some effects will remain only in my memory (as it is correct to be).
Climbing up I am fascinated from the Skierfe east face. Steep but... Calling me! And already getting some sun.
I keep on going, for the last 100 meters I have to use rampants since I am climbing on the north side and go around a numbers of rocks. The wind have worked a lot here!
I move a little bit on the east face to have a look at it: the snow is still hard and frozen, but less then on the normal way.
Before 11 I am on the top at almost 1200 meters and decide to try the descent from east. After about 1 hour I start the descent.
The snow is still frozen (outside my tent in the night the temperature was minus 12, imagine up there...), but still less hard then on the normal way.
Then, a short uphill again and after nice skiing on perfect firn.
In the end, slalom between trees till Atkse.
What a beautiful day!
For lunch I am at the hut, the host Stella is pretty surprised to see me already there ;-).
Shortly Staffan comes back from his tour with bad news. The Rapadalen delta is still water. No way to pass... I am so upset... I go for a nap and I wake up thinking that there should be an other entrance... Open the map and found the way from Sitojaure. Later Staffan suggests me the same way... So this will be... Tomorrow!
Will I make it?
