Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Trip to Lagazoi: up early, via Dantercepies, Grodner Joch, Colfosco to Corvara. One of the chairlifts at Corvara was broken, so we had a half-hour hike through the village. Up to Col Alto and via Piz Sorega to Armentarola for a bus to the Lagazoi lift.
Duncan, Matthew, Peter and Richard decided to do the back down to the bottom of the lift and come back up again then catch up, while Elizabeth, Rachel and I went straight onto the hidden valley. It was bitterly cold at the top of this run: I guess -10C with a force 6 wind? It was blasting ice crystals off the piste into our faces. We were glad to get to a more sheltered part of the valley and stop for lunch.
Then we went past the frozen waterfall, and down to the flat bottom of the valley where you are dragged by horses back towards Armentarola: still another 10km to get back to Selva.
Duncan, Matthew, Peter and Richard decided to do the back down to the bottom of the lift and come back up again then catch up, while Elizabeth, Rachel and I went straight onto the hidden valley. It was bitterly cold at the top of this run: I guess -10C with a force 6 wind? It was blasting ice crystals off the piste into our faces. We were glad to get to a more sheltered part of the valley and stop for lunch.
Then we went past the frozen waterfall, and down to the flat bottom of the valley where you are dragged by horses back towards Armentarola: still another 10km to get back to Selva.
